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Ella Fitzgerald: The Enchanting Ella Fitzgerald,Live at Birdland 1950-1952
by Dave Nathan
Baldwin Street Music has come out with another set of previously unavailable material by a top jazz vocalist. This album caputures Ella Fitzgerald's broadcasts from New York City jazz venues, mostly from Birdland. During this period, Fitzgerald was recording for Decca usually backed by a big orchestra headed by such stalwarts as Sy Oliver and Gordon ...
Kathleen Kolman: The Dreamer
by Dave Nathan
The New England area is simply teeing with excellent vocalists, including Donna Bryne, Kris Adams, Krisanthi Pappas and Carol Akerson, among others. With an exceptional inaugural album, The Dreamer, another New Englander Kathleen Kolman earns a prominent spot on that roster. To her credit, the album's play list avoids the comfortable standard classic material of Cole ...
Mildred Bailey with the Ellis Larkins Trio: The Blue Angel Years 1945-1947
by Dave Nathan
In 1944 Mildred Bailey was getting back on track after the end of the disastrous recording ban which almost ruined her career as well as that of other performers of jazz and popular music. Fortunately, she was offered a radio show by CBS and when Max Gordon, who also had the Village Vanguard, opened his new ...
Flangan Ingham Quartet: Textile Lunch
by Dave Nathan
Flanagan Ingham is the last names of the two leaders of this Quartet, Kevin Flanagan and Chris Ingham. This is the group's second album and like its first, expresses the ambience and mood of a specific geographic location. Their first album captured the spirit of Zanzibar. Their latest, Textile Lunch, is built around a Barry Gifford ...
John Burnett & His Orch. Featuring Buddy DeFranco: Swingin' in the Windy City
by Dave Nathan
P>John Burnett has a day job as a jazz broadcaster for FM station WDCB in Chicago. In 1999 he put together a very fine orchestra made up of top notch Chicago musicians. Many of them have had considerable big band experience with Glenn Miller's, Barrett Deems and others. Several members also play in another Windy City-based ...
Kenny Colman: Straight Ahead
by Dave Nathan
Straight Ahead is Canadian born and Vancouver resident Kenny Colman's second album for Justin Time. This latest effort concentrates on more upbeat and jazzy material than his first which leaned toward easy listening. Colman has garnered several good jazz musicians to make this a swinging affair. With a voice and style somewhere in between the raspy ...
Eclectic Voices-Scott Stroman: Songs of the Spirit
by Dave Nathan
The first seven tracks of this top drawer album of choral works make up an oratorio for voices and assorted instruments appropriately titled “Songs of the Spirit". Written by Scott Stroman, it is a tribute to a higher being, not a groveling , no questions asked one, but rather an anthem of hope coupled with a ...
Billy Bean/Walter Norris/Hal Gaylor: The Trio Rediscovered
by Dave Nathan
Though born and raised in Philadelphia, home of many jazz greats, Billy Bean moved to New York in 1958 where he worked with Bud Shank, Red Callender and Charlie Ventura. Despite his talent, he made relatively few recordings. There are no listings for Bean in Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. His recorded output has been as a ...
DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Shade Street
by Dave Nathan
In addition to heading the Chicago Skyliners Big Band, Bill O'Connell has a record label which he uses not only for his own productions but from time to time to put to disc the offerings of local university jazz groups. This time he has captured two separate sessions by the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. Under the ...
Theo Davis: Secret Island
by Dave Nathan
This is the third CD the British saxophonist has recorded for the 33Jazz label and an exciting one it is. Theo Travis' second CD View from the Edge, was voted Best British Jazz CD of 1994 by the Jazz on CD Readers/Critics poll. Travis' musical experience is by no means limited to jazz. Since May 1999 ...
