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Denise Jannah: The Madness of our Love
by Dave Nathan
Denise Jannah's first album for Blue Note turns out to be a delightful excursion in straight ahead singing fortified by very imaginative, but not off the charts, arrangements played by talented and appreciative backup musicians. Denise Jannah is not new to the singing world, having been in the game for about 10 years. She graduated from ...
John Cocuzzi: Swingin' and Burnin'
by Dave Nathan
John Cocuzzi is a versatile, talented multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who with some other very talented musicians, stretch out for an entertaining 60 minutes plus of solid, straight ahead jazz music on this very good album, Swingin' and Burnin'. A Washington, D.C. native, Cocuzzi gained an appreciation of jazz at an early age listening to his record ...
Tina May Trio: One Fine Day
by Dave Nathan
On the jazz scene for more than 15 years, Tina May is one of UK's premiere jazz vocal virtuosos. In a country which can boast of important contributors to the art of jazz vocalizing, this is not faint praise. Along with Carol Kidd, Claire Martin, Annie Ross and British diva, Norma Winstone, among others, May has ...
Diane Hubka: Look No Further
by Dave Nathan
This is Washington, D.C. based Diane Hubka's second album for A-Records, a subsidiary of The Netherlands label, Challenge Records. Like her first, she stays avoids standard material. Instead the play list is dominated by what most would call “off-beat" songs. Whatever, these tunes do not receive much recording attention even though many are the product by ...
Jim Porcella: Bombay Jim and the Swinging Sapphires-Not Just Visiting
by Dave Nathan
P>Taking advantage of the renewed interest in the genre, this jazzy group romps through a program of some of the best of the big bands, mostly from the 1930's and 1940's, but which still get plenty of play to this day. The one exception is the kick off tune, “Bombay Jim and the Swinging Sapphire Blues," ...
Charlie May: Relaxing with Charlie May
by Dave Nathan
When jazz aficionados get together to talk about best albums of the year, seminal recordings, top tenor players or other similar heavy matters, there's little chance that Relaxing with Charlie May come up. But when these same people want to throw off the cares and woes of the day, they could very well pull this album ...
Bob Washut: Songbook
by Dave Nathan
Bob Washut is a musical product of Northern Iowa University and has taken upon himself to gather together two close friends to do a piano trio CD. Of the eleven tunes, seven are Washut compositions. All the tunes are musical expressions of Washut's admiration for a specific individual. Some of them are well-known jazz musicians, like ...
Jack Brownlow Trio: Suddenly It's Bruno
by Dave Nathan
Jack Brownlow was born in Wenatchee, a small town in Washington State. So was bop saxophonist, Don Lanphere and jazz writer Doug Ramsey. Ramsey relates an interesting bit of jazz trivia about Wenatchee in his very good book Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some of Its Makers. Ramsey, long an admirer of Miles Davis, ...
Mark Kleinhaut: Amphora
by Dave Nathan
The Invisible Music label continues to bring before the public the talented jazz musicians who are natives of Maine or who now live there. Guitarist Mark Kleinhaut is one of the beneficiaries of this label's endeavors. A graduate of New Jersey's Rutgers University, Kleinhaut relocated to Maine in 1988 where he has become well known for ...
Don Doane and The Super Senior Sextet: Live on Maine Public Radio
by Dave Nathan
By the time this album was cut, Don Doane had come full circle. In 1961 he was teaching music in the Maine school system. Then Stan Kenton Orchestra came to town. At the urging of a fan, Kenton listened to tapes of Doane's trombone playing with the result that he urged Doane to go to New ...
