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Steve Hancoff: Duke Ellington for Solo Guitar
by Dave Nathan
For his third album, Steve Hancoff turns his attention to the music of Duke Ellington, not only for the elevated value of Ellington's compositions but for its application to the guitar. This album is as much an instructional tool as it is a jazz album. The 24-page, well-written booklet explains in detail the guitar techniques Hancoff ...
Pamela Knowles: Thirteen Kinds of Desire
by Dave Nathan
Pamela Knowles trained and worked as an actress before turning to the vocal art. It is this combination that is a major factor in making this album as good as it is, Pamela Knowles singing/acting out a set of thirteen poems by Pulitzer Prize poetry winner, Yusef Komunyakaa. Each song is a mini stage performance. You ...
Andre Previn/David Finck: We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad
by Dave Nathan
Andre Previn - or more accurately, Sir Andre, given the knighthood bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth in 1996 - is one of the very few pianists who moves back and forth between jazz and classical music with ease. Others of note are Keith Jarrett and, to a lesser extent, Mel Powell. There has been considerable ...
Linda Ciofalo: Take the High Road
by Dave Nathan
Now comes another entry on the expanding female vocalist register with New York's Linda Ciofalo's first album featuring a program of standards and contemporary pop sprinkled with two of her originals. Ciofalo exhibits a high degree of vocal versatility and flexibility with a variety of singing styles. On Cyndi Lauper's contemporary adult pop tune “Time After ...
Tina May and Tony Coe: N'oublie jamais (Jazz Piquant)
by Dave Nathan
Tina May continues her exploration of out of the ordinary, but tasteful, selections from the world's songbook in her latest album for the British 33Jazz label. This time around she has corralled preeminent reedman Tony Coe as well as other outstanding musicians, to share the spotlight. May's albums are always full of heavenly surprises, and this ...
Rebecca Kilgore: Moments Like This
by Dave Nathan
How lucky we are! Super song stylist Rebecca Kilgore is now recording with comparative regularity. Moments Like This is her 5th release in a little more than two years. Some of these have been under her name, on others she guests. But the result is the same, hearing more of one of the most scintillating jazz ...
Nick Levinovsky Sextet: Kind of Red
by Dave Nathan
Although the program appears to be made up of individual compositions, in fact they are all part of a suite which depicts various aspects of composer, pianist Nick Levinovsky's life experiences. Regrettably, in his liner notes, Mr. Levinovsky is quite vague about what these experiences might be. But we know that he emigrated from the former ...
Gene Bertoncini/Jack Wilkins: Just the Two of Us
by Dave Nathan
Chiaroscuro Records continues please jazz fans by recording and releasing live performances from the annual Floating Jazz Festival. This session brings together two of the more accomplished contemporary jazz guitar players. Gene Bertoncini is comfortable in the duo setting having made several well-known recordings with long time associate bassist Michael Moore. Jack Wilkins who may not ...
The George Maurer Group: Jazz in Black and White
by Dave Nathan
With a varied program of music by the Gershwins, Duke Ellington and some originals, the George Maurer Group makes its debut recording with Jazz in Black and White. Maurer and the members of the group are located in the Minneapolis, MN area which can count several good jazz makers among its citizens. While this is the ...
Steve Wilkerson and Joey DeFrancesco: It's a Blues Sorta Thing
by Dave Nathan
P> It's a Blues Sorta Thing is in the tradition of saxophone/organ combination whose practitioners have included the likes of Wild Bill Davis and Johnny Hodges, Gene Ammons and Brother Jack McDuff, Ben Webster and Groove Holmes. The adventurous, imaginative players on this album take the basic 12 bar blues and extend, expand, twist and put ...
