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Carol O'Shaughnessy: Live at Scullers
by Dave Nathan
Inspired by a large, receptive crowd, Boston cabaret singer Carol O'Shaughnessy enthusiastically tackles a program of thirteen tunes selected to bring out the cabaret performers stock in trade which is to sing a story. Unlike jazz singers for whom lyrics are the medium rather than the message, for a cabaret singer they are the message. O'Shaughnessy ...
Cynthia Sayer: String Swing
by Dave Nathan
Taking up the instrument at the age of 13, Cynthia Sayer is now a top jazz banjo player in jazz rivalling Bela Fleck. Combining her banjo with a straight forward and sometimes rough and ready singing style, Sayer has parlayed this favorable marriage of skills into a very successful career, having performed with many top flight ...
Eugene Maslov: When I Need to Smile/The Face of Love
by Dave Nathan
An expatriate from the former USSR, Eugene Maslov's second album for Mack Avenue Records and 3rd overall (the first two were for the now defunct Brownstone label) features four of his originals and sundry other tunes making up an assortment of nine tunes. He is joined by two first rank hard bop and modern jazz players ...
Carla White: The Sweetest Sounds
by Dave Nathan
Carla White has been a staple of vocal jazz for almost 20 years. Yet it's the same old story. No matter how talented - - and she is high on the talent list - - White has had trouble getting her art put to disk. She had to go to Mexico for her last CD. Now ...
Cyndra Fyore: Steam Heat
by Dave Nathan
A Syracuse, NY native now living and performing out of Raleigh, NC , Cyndra Fyore brings a sense of excitement and vamp to this her second recording. Using her three and one half octave range to great advantage, Fyore waltzes through twelve tunes, two of which she composed. Her range gives her options to chose from ...
Michael Poss: Silver Screen Serenades
by Dave Nathan
Michael Poss is a West Coast cabaret performer and this album captures two live appearances at the Roosevelt Hotel's The Cinegrill. The title is a bit misleading. While there are many movie tunes included there are also some composed by Poss. But they are likely what Poss would write for the screen if asked. The matter ...
Richie Vitale Quintet Featuring Ralph Lalama: Shake It!
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by Dave Nathan
Shake It! is Richie Vitale's third album for the Swiss based TCB label. Saxophonist Ralph Lalama guests sharing the bill and playing time with Vitale throughout. But Lalama's dissonant, biting sax seems out of place on a CD which for the most part is devoted to the hushed side of jazz. In contrast Vitale's horns never ...
Triology: Presence
by Dave Nathan
American clarinetist Brad Terry spends a good part of his time working in Poland, a fertile ground for jazz. One of his more impressive accomplishments was the discovery of three young Polish jazz musicians who play far beyond their years and bringing them to the United States for a tour and recording session. And young they ...
Charlie May All Star Big Band: Plays the Arrangements of Gaylord Jones
by Dave Nathan
Hearing this fine aggregation from the jazz active Northwest section of our country should evoke many pleasant images of times past. “The Nearness of You" and “I only Have Eyes for You" medley brings to mind a soft summer evening with the big band playing on an outdoor bandstand for swaying dancers at a small town's ...
Paul Cosentino & the Boilermaker Jazz Band: Panama
by Dave Nathan
There seems to be a small but lively revival of swing music from the 1920's and 30's. Don Neely's San Francisco based Royal Society Jazz Orch. has been issuing CDs which delve into the charts from this period. Now along comes the Boilermaker Jazz Band out of Pittsburgh, PA headed by clarinetist Paul Cosentino. Cosentino uses ...
