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Randy Sandke and the Inside Out Jazz Collective: Mainstream Meets the New Music
by Dave Nathan
Nagel Heyer does something very interesting with this album by putting togther musicians from two schools of jazz. There's the more traditional swing, classic jazz of leader Randy Sandke, Scott Robinson and Ken Peplowski combing efforts with the decidedly modern group of players headed by Marty Ehrlich, Ray Anderson and Uri Caine. The result ...
The Maritime Jazz Orchestra: Now and Now Again
by Dave Nathan
Canada's Maritime Jazz Orchestra has been around since at least 1996 when it released Siren's Song on the same Justin Time label. Many of the same performers are on this their latest release, certainly the principal ones of Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone and John Taylor. Probably the best-known performer is trumpet/flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler who has ...
Wycliffe Gordon/Eric Reed: We
by Dave Nathan
German label Nagel Heyer knows a good thing when it sees and hears it. This is the third time it has brought New Orleans/post bop trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and contemporary jazz pianist Eric Reed into the studio. But stylistic classifications are set aside when they get together. These two clearly have a special bond which comes ...
Pacific Standard Time: Live!
by Dave Nathan
Bassist and chief proprietor of the UFO Bass label Richard Simon has gotten together with two major proponents and pioneers of their respective instruments. Along with the clarinet, Sam Most has been working the jazz flute scene since the 1950's. He goes flute on most of the cuts, but picks up the straight black stick for ...
Andy Narell: Sakesho
by Dave Nathan
If your kids have a way of taking out all the pots and pans from your cupboards and wacking away at them, encourage them. They may someday get it all together and turn out to be a steel pan artist like Andy Narell. In a few years, you could be dancing to the exciting rhythms of ...
Charles Chapman: Come Sunset
by Dave Nathan
Guitarist Charles Chapman has been teaching at the Berklee College of Music since 1972. Over that time he has published more than 400 articles and had eight guitar books. Now, at the age of 52, he has taken the big step, coming out of the teaching and writing closet and going with his first solo CD, ...
George Evans: From Moment to Moment
by Dave Nathan
From Moment to Moment is the third album for American - Canadian vocalists George Evans. He has pulled together a musical agenda of 12 tunes that are an intelligent mix of the familiar and almost familiar. He has also taken outstanding musicians into the studio with him and they are completely in synch with what Evans ...
Howard Alden: My Shining Hour
by Dave Nathan
There is a small, select group of contemporary jazz musicians who when they release a new album, the question is not whether it's going to be good but rather, “how good". Guitarist Howard Alden falls four square into this community of consummate jazz artists and his position in the group is further solidified by his latest ...
Michael Melito: 'Bout Time!
by Dave Nathan
For his third album for the MHR Record label, upstate NY young drummer Michael Melito leads a trio increased to a quartet on most tracks by the tenor sax of Grant Stewart and for one track, the flugelhorn of Joe Magnarelli. Being a leader as a drummer can be a frustrating undertaking. Typically in a drum ...
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Can I Persuade You?
by Dave Nathan
From its inception in 1966, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra has been a New York institution attracting the best musicians from that City. Typically, when the driving forces for an organization depart, in this case founders Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, their organization eventually falls apart or becomes a tribute band. Not so here, as ...
