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Nicholas Hoffman: Jazzy's Dance
by Dave Nathan
A native Chicagoan now living on the West Coast, this is guitarist Nicholas Hoffman's second album. But his Chicago roots have followed him to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. While in the Windy City, Hoffman was influenced by those who played on the blues sides, especially sax men Von Freeman and Bunky Green. Hoffman returns ...
Teddi King: In the Beginning, 1949~1954
by Dave Nathan
This compilation of Teddi King performances is clearly a labor of love for Ted Ono and Baldwin Street Music. King, if not yet achieving the status of a legend, is at least a cult figure. Ignored by some jazz vocal authorities - - she doesn't rate a single word in Will Friedwald's allegedly definitive Jazz Singing ...
Dr. Michael White: In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds
by Dave Nathan
Dr. Michael White is a professor of Spanish and Afro-American music at Xavier University. But his real job is working hard to make sure that the New Orleans jazz tradition stays alive and well through writings, lectures and performing. Selecting soul mate fellow clarinetist Johnny Dodds as the subject for this CD, White replicates tunes Dodds ...
Dominic Alldis: If Love Were All-The Songs of Noel Coward
by Dave Nathan
Dominic Alldis is one of those performers who have a strong interest in both jazz and classical music. And as others like him, Alldis is most comfortable as a cabaret performer. The pianist/vocalist began his musical career in 1985 in the middle of the two genre, as resident pianist at London's Pizza on the Park. During ...
Various: Christmas Jazz! -Volume 2
by Dave Nathan
Christmas music can be divided into three categories. The first pop tunes which happen to have the holidays as their theme. Then there is traditional Christmas music, songs whose only appearance comes during the holiday season. Finally, there's the Christmas music with religious or spiritual connotations. Nagel-Heyer's second CD of Christmas music deals mostly with the ...
Kevin Mahogany: A Portrait of Kevin Mahogany
by Dave Nathan
On his 4th album for Warner Bros., Kevin Mahogany pulls all the genre stops and pays tribute to those by whom he clearly has been influenced. There's that funky R & B with Fats Domino's “I'm Walkin" with a raucous sax and Larry Golding's organ making the whole thing go. As much as any track, “I ...
Stewart Curtis' K-Groove: Smoked Salmon Salsa
by Dave Nathan
Stewart Curtis, his K-Groove and the producers at 33Jazz apparently wanted to make an album of Klezmer music. Nothing wrong with that except they may have had a concern about how many fans would be attracted to a straight Klezmer CD. To assure greater appeal, they came up with a hybrid called Klezmer fusion where Yiddish ...
The Steve Grover Quartet Featuring Brad Terry: Remember
by Dave Nathan
For his second album for Invisible Music, superb Maine-based drummer Steve Grover has gotten together long time collaborator, clarinetist Brad Terry for an appealing program of Grover compositions. Grover, winner of the 1995 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz/BMI Jazz Composers Competition, has been an adjunct professor of Music at the Bates, Bowdoin and Maine Universities as ...
Michael Feinstein: Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway
by Dave Nathan
This is a double CD which comes from live sessions by Michael Feinstein at New York's Regency Hotel in April of 2000. The remaining tracks are studio sessions. All of it, as the album title advertises, is Feinstein's interpretations of standards from the Great American Songbook that were introduced or at least given notoriety on a ...
Tom Wopat: The Still of the Night
by Dave Nathan
It's not reached stampede proportions, but there are a number of entertainment professionals crossing over into singing. Gary Le Mel, a top Warner Brothers movie executive came with his album Moonlighting last year. Now there's TV personality. Tom Wopat with his first vocal album The Still of the Night. Wopat is probably best known for his ...
