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Jane Miller Trio: Secret Pockets
by Dave Nathan
The untimely demise of Emily Remler from a heart attack more than 10 years ago, left a void in the ranks jazz guitarists in general and female guitar players in particular. Now comes Jane Miller out of the Boston area who seems to have the technique and the ability to apply it to fill that void. ...
Peggy Lee: The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions
by Dave Nathan
Mosaic Records, for more than 15 years the purveyors of fine limited edition albums, has issued a 5-CD set of transcriptions made by June Christy and Peggy Lee for Capitol. From the 30's to the early 50's, radio stations needed additional music to put together programs featuring specific artists, mostly big bands and vocalists. Record companies ...
Nancy Harrow: You're Nearer
by Dave Nathan
Nancy Harrow cut her first album in 1960 with the Buck Clayton All Stars. Since then she has made just ten albums and this reissue of a 1986 recording originally on a Tono CD is one of them. As further evidence of lack of recognition, she gets just a footnote in Crowther and Pinfold's Singing Jazz-Jazz ...
Vienna Art Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
by Dave Nathan
The Vienna Art Orchestra's (VAO) tribute to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn is made up of tunes culled from several performances during VOA's Spring Tour 99. This is not the group's first encounter with Ellington, having in1994 released its The Original Charts of Duke Ellington & Charles Mingus. On this album, they “do" Ellington/Strayhorn quite differently ...
Connie Evingson: Some Cats Know
by Dave Nathan
Given that Connie Evingson first album, Fever, was a tribute to Peggy Lee, her latest with another famous Lee song, as the title. Some Cats Know, falls into the same category. Not so. While there is a nod or two to Ms Lee, this CD is an exhilarating, entertaining one hour plus exposition of Ms Evingson's ...
Terry Blaine and Mark Shane: Toot Hot for Words
by Dave Nathan
This album pays tribute to singers of the past who set the standards for today's crop of jazz and traditional pop singers. The technique vocalist Terry Blaine and stalwart pianist, Mark Shane, use is as fascinating as the tribute itself. On most of the cuts, Blaine overdubs her voice creating the impression that she is accompanied ...
Marie Michuda: It's a Grand Night for Singing
by Dave Nathan
Marie Michuda teaches in the Voice, Opera and Musical Theater Department of Chicago's Northwestern University. Although billed as singing in the cabaret style, to me, this album comes across as a recital by a good musical comedy and operetta singer. Her maiden album, not surprisingly, is pretty much stays with selections from well known and no ...
Robert Hicks with the Pete Rugolo Orch.: Textures in Hi-Fi
by Dave Nathan
Mix a young singer and pianist with a veteran composer/arranger/big band conductor and blend with an abundance of talented, experienced instrumentalists and the result is an exciting (for the most part) album called Textures in Hi-Fi. This is West Coast denizen Robert Hick's second album and is considerably more adventurous than the first. Rather than relying ...
Marlene Ver Planck: My Impetuous Heart
by Dave Nathan
She's come a long, long way from the time she set commercials on end by singing those three words which set the jingle world on its ear, “mmm-mmm-good", kicking off a commercial idolization of Campbell's Soups. My Impetuous Heart, her 16th album and first for DRG, makes manifest that the voice is as light, as lilting, ...
