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Patrice Williamson: Free to Dream
by Dave Nathan
Boston singer , by way of Memphis, TN, Patrice Williamson has come out with her second release on her River Lily label. Given the critical acclaim her first release received, it's surprising and disappointing that it has taken three years for this one to get on the streets. But such are the vagaries and narrow vision ...
Kenny Rankin: A Song for You
by Dave Nathan
Veteran vocalist Kenny Rankin, in my opinion, has been variously misclassified, misassigned in terms of where he belongs as a performer for far too long. The knee jerk reaction to his material, on record and in concert, is that he was more a soft rock singer than a singer/songwriter, with occasional performance references to entries from ...
Joe Finn Quartet: Blue Tomorrow
by Dave Nathan
Based on what's happened so far, the beginnings of the 21st Century might be called the era of new good guitar players. Over the last couple of years, there have been many coming onto the jazz scene, and even some veterans such as Joe Diorio reemerging. They represent all kinds of jazz genre and style, from ...
Ernestine Anderson: I Love Being Here with You
by Dave Nathan
This nicely packaged, but hard to follow (I'm still not completely sure who's playing what on which CD) two CD set compiles excerpts from four live performances by Ernestine Anderson, mostly as a guest. The album covers three live performances from 1987 and one from 1990, when the singer was doing some very good work. The ...
Bob McHugh Trio: Soaring on Wings of Ivory and Black
by Dave Nathan
Bob McHugh has been a mainstay in clubs and bistros in and around the New York City for more than thirty years. He is also relatively well represented on records as well. This album for the Outstanding Records label feature McHugh and his trio working through a musical program of mostly familiar standards with some originals ...
Donald Harrison: Real Life Stories
by Dave Nathan
It's can be disconcerting reading the liner notes for albums of such well known jazz artists as Donald Harrison. The undertaking is characterized as something just short of the second coming, of the reincarnation of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and everyone of note in between these two. The music is described as revolutionary, evolutionary, a ...
Mili Bermejo Sextet with Claudio Ragazzi: Pienso el Sur
by Dave Nathan
The product of a marriage between Mexican composer Guillermo Bermejo and his Argentinean tango singer wife, Luz, composer, singer Mili Bermejo has been teaching her own brand of jazz music at the Berklee College of Music for more than 20 years. She now joins with Argentine guitarist/composer Claudio Ragazzi for a program which brings together elements ...
Rich Peare: Guitar Hour
by Dave Nathan
The title of Rich Peare's inaugural album, Guitar Hour is a perfectly accurate description of what you get, viz., an hour of beguiling and romantic acoustic guitar by a young man with out of the ordinary talent. The approach to his studio recording is quite different than the common practice in today's high technology which is ...
Susannah McCorkle: Ballad Essentials
by Dave Nathan
Susannah McCorkle is the latest entry in Concord Jazz's Ballad Essentials series, and certainly is one of the most exceptional entries. Few singers of our generation or any had a way with a set of lyrics as McCorkle. She has the ability to brighten and ventilate even the most tired of tunes. Fortunately her taste in ...
Ronnie Wells: Live at 10th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival
by Dave Nathan
This album captures two related events. The first seven tracks are Ronnie Wells' concert at the 10th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival which is a source of funds for Wells' Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund, which she has been active with for years. On this portion of the program, she is backed by some of Washington, ...
