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Susie Arioli Swing Band: It's Wonderful
by Dave Nathan
Susie Arioli is no newcomer to the vocal game having performed in and around Montreal for several years. She and her Swing Band also performed at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York. It's Wonderful is her first album as a leader and she sings music she likes. There's an emphasis on 1930's and 1940's material. ...
McCoy Tyner: Jazz Roots
by Dave Nathan
Perhaps Jazz Roots can be dubbed McCoy Tyner's “thank you" album as the great pianist pays homage to those masters of the keyboard, both those who preceded him and his contemporaries, like Fats Waller, Bud Powell, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and Earl “Fatha" Hines. Tyner also recognizes individuals who composed the great music which allowed accomplished ...
Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orch.: Labor of Love
by Dave Nathan
CMJO Leader Lenny King makes no bones about it. He looks to Stan Kenton and his great arrangers for his musical inspiration. The group plays in the style of the Kenton groups, not in imitation, but more in admiration. This album features arrangements by Bill Holman, Gene Roland, Marty Paich and Lennie Niehaus. It also has ...
Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra: Kive and Screamin'
by Dave Nathan
Recorded at two separate performances in 1997 at FitzGerald's Night Club and originally released in March of 1998, the Chicago Lakeside Jazz label has now reissued the two concerts by the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra under the leadership of Lenny King. Guesting is former Stan Kenton trumpet player Dennis Noday whose high atmosphere pyrotechnics are featured ...
Enrico Rava & Michael Flugel Quartet: Live at Birdland Neuburg
by Dave Nathan
Trumpet player Enrico Rava has been one of Italy's leading jazz figures for several years having performed with many of the top modern jazz players in the United States and in Europe like Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron and Don Cherry. Germany's Pianist Michael Flügel is somewhat newer at the jazz game than Rava, but nonetheless has ...
Leila Percy & Don Doane: It's Magic
by Dave Nathan
The music played on this album is guaranteed to make you want to grab your significant other and get out on the dance floor. These kind of recordings are rarely made anymore. Veteran trombonist Don Doane leads a sextet of his contemporaries as they are joined by the delicate vocalizing of Leila Percy (called the “canary" ...
Lucianne Evans & Tom Coppola: Hold Back the Rain
by Dave Nathan
Although living and performing in the lovely North Carolina mountain city of Asheville, vocalist Lucianne Evans and pianist Tom Coppola had to travel to Brooklyn, NY to make their first studio recording at Michael Brorby's studio. Like so many other of today's aspiring jazz artists, this is a self-produced album. I wish I could report that ...
Jeanette Lindstrom - Steve Dobrogosz: Feathers
by Dave Nathan
Feathers travels a different road than Jeanette Lindström's previous albums. Whereas earlier releases had her sounding like an Afro American singer with overtones of Abbey Lincoln and Diane Reeves, her newest is introspective and soft. There is no hint of soul, R & B or anything resembling an up tempo pace. This change of rhythms may ...
C-Jam All Stars: Diminuendo, Crescendo and Blues
by Dave Nathan
Duke Ellington was extraordinarily generous in allowing members of this band to record on their own while working for him. This generosity is something we all should be grateful for. Otherwise we would never have experienced the pleasure of hearing small groups headed by Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard and Rex Stewart. This album was originally recorded ...
Brad Allen: Bradley Allen
by Dave Nathan
A graduate of Nebraska University and a veteran of one of the best on the job training gigs a young music professional can come by, the U.S. Army Band, drummer/leader Bradley Allen has selected a diverse set of tunes for his debut album. He runs the spectrum to present Bop, Swing, R & B and Jump ...
