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Charlie Jennison Quartet: Iridescence
by Dave Nathan
Charlie Jennison's debut album for Maine's Invisible Music Records is a smooth piece of work. “Smooth" not in the sense of the saccharine stuff served up by contemporary jazz players, but smooth as in classy unpretentiousness in the playing. Jennison is an alumnus of the Do'ah Wild Music Ensemble, a New Hampshire group which recorded for ...
Tony Corbiscello Big Band: In Full Swing
by Dave Nathan
Selected as the orchestra to open for Frank Sinatra's final tour, Tony Corbiscello's 16-piece big band pulls out most of the stops on a play list of fourteen tunes. If not all big band staples, many are tunes that big bands had their book. The musical agenda includes three originals by Marion Evans who also did ...
Julia Rich: I'll Take Romance
by Dave Nathan
Julia Rich is the featured vocalist and road manager for the current tribute Glenn Miller Orchestra. For her first album, I'll Take Romance, Rich has opted for an unadventurous, but solid play list of eleven standards and one original, which she delivers in her own sweet way. Rich's big band experience comes into play on this ...
Rosemary Clooney: Brazil
by Dave Nathan
P>Never during her more than 50 years of performing has Rosemary Clooney sounded better than on her latest album for Concord Jazz. Long occupying a top rung on the vocalist ladder, it wasn't until she escaped from the clutches of shlock music king, Mitch Miller, at Columbia Records and signed with Concord Jazz that her prodigious ...
Spitfire Band: Big Band Swing Things
by Dave Nathan
When I picked up this album, I had a nagging feeling that I had seen it before. A check of my data base indicated that it's a reissue of a disc that the Canadian based Spitfire Band did for Columbia Records several years ago called In Flight. A call to the album's producer, Bill Lawrence confirmed ...
Barbara Leigh and Keith Ingham: Barbara Lea and Keith Ingham Are Mad about the Boy-The Songs of Noel Coward
by Dave Nathan
P>It's obvious that the producers of this album believe that the music of Noel Coward is under valued, especially in the United States and, more to the point, by the world of jazz. The liner notes assert that Coward's songs are as versatile as Gershwin, Kern and Berlin's and consequently jazz artists should be as anxious ...
Nicole Yarling: Joe Williams Presents Nicole Yarling Live at Manchester Craftsmen
by Dave Nathan
Sponsored and released by Manchester Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh, PA, this CD records a live concert by vocalist/violinist Nicole Yarling at the Guild's Hall. Introduced by the late and sorely missed Joe Williams, Ms Yarling presents a mixed program of traditional popular material, two of her own originals and some straight-ahead standards by the likes of ...
George W. Carroll: Life Is Good
by Dave Nathan
P>There has been much ado about the great swing revival pioneered by such retro swingers as Brian Setzer and The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies with many other groups jumping on the band wagon. In Florida, there has been no swing revival because with the large number of retirees ...
Gary LeMel: Moonlighting
by Dave Nathan
Moonlighting is an apt title for this album. Gary LeMel has taken a night job. During the day he holds the impressive position of President of Music for Warner Bros. Films, but with this album he is returning to his first love, music. LeMel took classical piano lessons and at 17 toured with Anita O'Day as ...
Kevin Mahogany: Pussy Cat Dues
by Dave Nathan
Not since the 1979 effort of Joni Mitchell has a top vocalist taken on the daunting task of recording the music of Charles Mingus. In 1995, Kevin Mahogany was invited by the Cologne-based Bill Dobbins-directed WDR big band (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) to participate in live concert of Mingus music. For this important musical event, Mahogany is joined ...
