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Bucky Pizzarelli: April Kisses
by David Adler
The acoustic guitar of Bucky Pizzarelli is not that of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, nor that of John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, and Lenny Breau. It is the acoustic archtop guitar of little-known early jazzers such as Dick McDonough, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, and George Van Eps. On this beautiful session, not only is there no ...
Tino Tracanna, Corrado Guarino: Gesualdo
by David Adler
This is an Italian crew playing music of Italian pedigree, and playing it with an impeccably contemporary jazz flair. Five of the nine tracks are by Gesualdo da Venosa, a post- Renaissance composer whose dates are 1560--1613. The remaining four tracks were inspired by Gesualdo but composed by conductor/arranger Corrado Guarino, except for “Itene," ...
Teri Thornton: I'll Be Easy to Find
by David Adler
Singer Teri Thornton gained fairly wide recognition in the early 1960s but then fell into prolonged obscurity. Recently “rediscovered" by manager/producer Suzi Reynolds, the talented Thornton, now 65 years old and battling cancer, placed in the 1998 Thelonius Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, played the Village Vanguard, and got signed to Verve. I’ll Be Easy to ...
Don Sebesky: Joyful Noise
by David Adler
Duke Ellington tribute records there have been by the dozen, but this one surely stands out as among the best. Big band arranger Don Sebesky brought together the cream of the crop: trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, trumpeter Tom Harrell, altoist Phil Woods, pianist Jim McNeely, guitarist John Pizzarelli, bassists Dennis Irwin and Ron Carter, and other fine ...
Wynton Marsalis Septet: Live at the Village Vanguard
by David Adler
And you thought the recent four-disc collection of Coltrane’s 1961 Village Vanguard recordings was a lot to chew on. Here comes Wynton Marsalis with a whopping seven CDs culled from septet performances at the Vanguard from 1990 through 1994. The music is cleverly presented: Each disc represents a different night of the week, starting on Monday ...
Ehrlich/Erskine/Formanek: Relativity
by David Adler
The names alone recommend this CD. Multi-woodwind maven Marty Ehrlich has long been a fixture of New York’s downtown avant-garde circle. Peter Erskine was a superstar fusion drummer in the 70s and 80s and remains a very important jazz voice, steadily developing his capabilities as a straight-ahead/free player and composer. Michael Formanek, a quiet presence on ...
Royce Campbell: Royce Campbell with Strings
by David Adler
“With strings" jazz albums should carry a warning sticker: “This might sound like elevator music." Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown got the genre rolling, and their strings records show that it’s easier to elude the elevator music allegation if you’re a horn player. The insistent attack of a brass or wind instrument often contrasts nicely with ...
David Kikoski: The Maze
by David Adler
During David Kikoski’s ten or so years as Roy Haynes’s pianist, his unbridled energy and highly advanced harmonic sense gelled with Haynes’s roaring drums to create combustible, killing music. Recently he has graced excellent recordings by Al Foster, Craig Handy, Bob Berg, Ingrid Jensen, Conrad Herwig, the Mingus Big Band, and others. As a leader he ...
Smith/Goodman/Levy/Burbridge: The Stranger's Hand
by David Adler
A common shortcoming of today’s chops-oriented fusion is its tendency to playfully mimic every musical style under the sun without ever articulating a coherent, genuine style of its own. Such is the case with this fusion supergroup, of which drummer Steve Smith of Vital Information and Steps Ahead is the leader. He’s joined by violinist Jerry ...
Willie Myette:
by David Adler
This is the promising debut of Willie Myette, a straight-ahead player based in Providence, Rhode Island. The Berklee- and Fred Hersch-trained pianist offers up seven standards, as well as Oscar Peterson’s “Hymn to Freedom" and an original waltz titled “Ella’s Song" — dedicated not to the first lady of song, but to Myette’s daughter. Joining Myette ...
