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Connye Florance: Turn My Heart
by Dave Nathan
Connye Florance has done commercials, hosted a PBS educational series, and has been the voice of the “WB" for many Warner Brothers jingles. She's sung background for Elton John and Tammy Wynette. An active movie career has seen her with parts in the feature movie “The Client," the made-for-televison “Proud Heart" and a major role in ...
Leila Percy and Muriel Havenstein: Those Sirens of Swing
by Dave Nathan
The Sirens of Swing, Leila Percy and Muriel Havenstein, are well established in the small, but flourishing jazz scene in Maine. They got together with some up North friends and recorded this very attractive album. Pianist Muriel Havenstein's jazz roots go back to the 1940's when she was a member of Estelle and Her Brunettes. Jimmy ...
Doc Severinsen: Swingin' the Blues
by Dave Nathan
P>Over the last few years, Doc Severinsen has kept a big band together by playing concerts and touring. This successor to the Tonight Show Band, so important to the success of the Johnny Carson show, continues to feature fresh, imaginative arrangements and stellar musicians to perform them. Many members of the group not only played with ...
Anita Wardell: Straight Ahead
by Dave Nathan
Great Britain has long been a fertile ground for singers and an awesome lot they are. Among the better known are Norma Winstone (the grande dame of English jazz singers), Carol Kidd, expatriate American Stacey Kent, Clair Martin and Jan Ponsford. Susannah McCorkle's career also blossomed there. Now we have Australian born Anita Wardell cutting her ...
Danny Moss/Roy Williams Quintet: Steamers!
by Dave Nathan
Britisher Danny Moss and long time side kick, Roy Williams, with their group carry on in the tradition of small group swing recalling those great combos led by John Kirby, Charlie Shavers, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton and many, many others. The Moss/Williams quintet takes us on a stroll through 13 tunes, all but two of them ...
Wycliffe Gordon: Slidin' Home
by Dave Nathan
Another of Wynton Marsalis' discoveries, Wycliffe Gordon has established himself as a leading practitioner of the slide instrument on today's jazz scene helping to move along the renewed interest in an instrument which had fallen a few notches from the heights it once enjoyed. All of the technical wizardry and jazz tradition laid down by the ...
Dick Haymes: On the Air-Volume 5 (1945-47)
by Dave Nathan
Just released, this is the 5th volume of the Dick Haymes Society's project to issue as much of previously unavailable Haymes material as possible. Covering the years 1945 to 1947, most of the cuts on this CD come from his Auto Lite shows of this period. Other cuts are from the Personal Album series made for ...
Carol Akerson: Duke Is the 1
by Dave Nathan
Duke Ellington's centennial has spurred the release of numerous tribute albums paying homage to him and to Billy Strayhorn and Duke Is the 1 is one of the better efforts. In addition to some of the more famous Ellington compositions, there are good performances of some not too regularly heard material which makes for a more ...
Martha Lorin: Come Walk with Me
by Dave Nathan
Chicago's Southport label has brought different groupings of instrumentalists into the recording studio to back Martha Lorin for her second album. Only superb pianist Mike Black appears on all the cuts with Lorin. To Ms Lorin and Southport's credit, they avoid the temptation of limiting the musical agenda to the usual standards by offering songs that ...
Mary Pearson: You and I
by Dave Nathan
When Nashville is mentioned, jazz, especially jazz vocalizing, is not the first thing that comes to mind - - in fact, it's likely to come to mind at all for most. Pearson comes from and works out of the country musical capitol of the world, and has been doing so for some time now. With this ...
