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Ed Lambert/Carol Gaylor: Lambert and Gaylor
by Dave Nathan
Although partner Ed Lambert gets top billing, it's Carol Gaylor who clearly is the heroine on this maiden album. She touches all the musical genre bases, English rock, soft rock, country, adult contemporary, Caribbean and selections from the Great American Songbook. And she passes muster on them all. “I Fall to Pieces" is a country classic ...
Julie Kelly: Into the Light
by Dave Nathan
Julie Kelly is a mature singer with a well settled singing style bounded by elegance, wit and lyrical sensitivity. The years have taken some toll on this bright as crystal like voice, there's a little strain with the higher notes and they aren't held as long as they probably used to be. But this relatively minor ...
Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson
by Dave Nathan
Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in this country because of bigotry, left the United States for Europe and never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor saxophonist to take up Bop, Byas never let ...
Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson
by Dave Nathan
Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in this country because of bigotry, left the United States for Europe and never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor saxophonist to take up Bop, Byas never let ...
The Four Freshmen: Celebrating 50 Years
by Dave Nathan
The Four Freshmen were extraordinarily popular during the 1950's and 60's when they worked with Woody Herman and were part of those elaborate Stan Kenton road shows. Not only did they feature extra close harmony, but they were unique in that they were also pretty good instrumentalists as well. The occasion for this performance was a ...
Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd: Blues in the Night
by Dave Nathan
This 1971 performance was part of a huge jazz concert in Clearwater, FL sponsored by station WAZE . In addition to Woody Herman's aggregation, the Four Freshmen and Stan Kenton's band were there. These sessions have also been issued by Hitchcock. Herman's music and arrangements are fresh and exciting, not repeats of the same stuff he ...
Robert Kyle: Blue Winds
by Dave Nathan
Sax payer Robert Kyle's third album continues in the mode of his second in that all the compositions on the set are his own. They are the standard lot, a couple of blues, some ballads and a swinger or two. All are listenable, but not all are especially memorable. Two exceptions are the lovely ballads “Three ...
A. J. Salas: 88 Reasons
by Dave Nathan
Although still a teenager, A.J. Salas is one of the premiere pianists in the environs of Colorado. This, his first album, features a play list of Salas originals along side stompers by the likes of blues legend Leroy Carr and others. And that's the kind of music Salas specializes in, blues and boogie. The tracks are ...
The DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orechestra: Off the Charts
by Dave Nathan
Vince DiMartino is a graduate of the University of Kentucky's very fine jazz studies program headed by Miles Osland. He shares billing with Osland on this CD which has more than 75 minutes of outstanding, disciplined and exciting big band music. Although DiMartino's name is on the album with Osland's , the latter's influence is prevalent ...
Various: Quintessential
by Dave Nathan
This album salutes the talents of five singers from the San Francisco Bay area. They offer a varied of standards and originals, with the former in the majority. While all the tracks are well done and each is endowed with qualities unique to the performer, there are some that are worthwhile pinpointing. Shanna Carlson's interpretation of ...
