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Angie Winans: Melodies of My Heart
by Dave Nathan
Angie Winans, one of the Winans Sisters, strikes out on her own with this contemporary gospel music album, which has elements of R & B, smooth jazz and rock. Her deep feelings about why and what she is singing is evident throughout the session. Sound effects are used to help punctuate the message Winans delivers with ...
Kate Hammett-Vaughan: How My Heart Sings
by Dave Nathan
This album earned Kate Hammett-Vaughan a nomination for the Juno Award as Canada's best vocal jazz singer of the year. It is well-deserved recognition not only for the exciting vocal presentations, but also for the instrumentalists on the session. They work hand in glove with Hammett-Vaughan for almost an hour of artistic playing. Don't let the ...
Victor Trachsel: I'm Glad There Is You
by Dave Nathan
This album introduces a new entry to the male vocal scene with Victor Trachsel. Trachsel does not have that muscular, strong voice many other members of the vocal fraternity possess. He's hip, cool the same way Mel Torme and Chet Baker were. He also understands the importance of good arrangements that allow enough room for his ...
Maurice Hines: I've Never Been in Love Before
by Dave Nathan
Maurice Hines is the well-known dancer and choreographer having worked in such Great White Way musicals as Eubie. This album is his debut as a singer, using only his first name. Maurice has a light voice, somewhere in between Nat King Cole and Jimmy Scott with a nod toward Leon Thomas thrown in from time to ...
Joachim Schoenecker: In the Moment
by Dave Nathan
Joachim Schoenecker is a young guitarist out of Cologne, Germany. On his first album for Nagel Heyer, he is joined by three Americans for a session of straight ahead jazz. There is nothing far out here as the group sticks to the 1960 post bop musical paths trod by many players before and which will be ...
Various: Jazz Live From New York
by Dave Nathan
What a bargain this 2-cd set is! More than two hours of music performed by Telarc's outstanding stable of jazz recording artists, all for the price of a single album. And the record company's stable reads like an honor roll of contemporary jazz performers, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Sweets Edison and Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, James ...
Chicago Jazz Ensemble: Kenton a la Russo-Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Dave Nathan
William (he used to be called “Bill") Russo, with his Chicago Jazz Ensemble as his medium, is the unabashed keeper of the flame for Stan Kenton's music. Despite his detractors, Kenton's organization was the breeding ground for a host of white jazz musicians who went on to greater glory. Kenton also fostered and demanded imaginative and ...
Steve Wilkerson & Andrea Baker: Licorice Ice
by Dave Nathan
This is the 6th release from Steve Wilkerson and Andrea Baker for their Dane Records label. This time they work together on a CD that features a formidable of Wilkerson clarinet Earlier albums either had him ignoring the instrument or using it sparingly. But with its renaissance, he adds his name to the those who are ...
Andrian Ingram & John Pisano: Homage
by Dave Nathan
The UK's String Jazz label continues to feed the appetites of lovers of the jazz guitar with another outstanding release. This album is the second meeting on CD between veteran US guitarist John Pisano and England's Adrian Ingram. The outcome is more than an hour of guitar duets, with Pisano coming from the left speaker and ...
Jim Conroy: Heart of the Man
by Dave Nathan
Subtitled An Appreciation of Johnny Hartman, one expects an album of songs associated with Johnny Hartman as interpreted by Jim Conroy. While four of the tunes fall into this category, the remaining six are compositions by Conroy, some tributes to Hartman. Conroy has that deep baritone that made Hartman vocal interpretations so special, and it is ...
