Results for "David Mann"

David Mann

Imaginary Road

By Reza Khan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Waiting for the Sky; Neo Funk; I See Stars; La Liaison; Midnight Runner; Broken River; Seven Miles Road; It’s Happening; Somewhere East; Imaginary Road.

Imaginary World

Label: Blue Hour Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: Trailblazer; New Day; Daybreak; Living Underground; Discovery; Boulevard East; Tiger Lily; Looking Back; Turbocharged; Time's Arrow; Imaginary World.

Exhale

By Patrick Bradley

Label: Patricks Song Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Completely Yours 2. Reinvention 3. Exhale 4. Song of May (feat. Darren Rahn) 5. Sip' n the Breeze 6. Cat Man Blues (feat. Rick Braun) 7. Meant to Be (feat. Darren Rahn) 8. Lighthouse (feat. Allen Hinds) 9. In the Heart of the Seas 10. Providence 11. Walk with Me

Randal Clark: Imaginary World

by Jim Worsley
May 28, 2021

Randal Clark's Imaginary World stretches beyond the conscious boundaries and illuminates the dark corners. It's clear from the onset that it is steeped in jazz tradition with a giant foothold on both rhythmic and melodic foundations. Clark establishes himself early and never lets go. Too often a buoyant blast off can ultimately fade away into the ...

Waiting for the Sky

May 4, 2021

Album: Imaginary Road
By Reza Khan
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:45

Reza Khan: Imaginary Road

by Jack Bowers
March 23, 2021

To impartially assess Imaginary Road, Bangladeshi-raised, New York-based guitarist Reza Khan's sixth album, it is best to lay aside as best one can his disposition for or against what could reasonably be labeled “smooth jazz" and start from there. Is the music melodically and rhythmically likeable? Yes, it is. Are the musicians technically able? Yes, they ...

Susie Meissner: I Wish I Knew

by C. Michael Bailey
September 8, 2020

Over the past decade and three previous recordings, Philadelphia-based vocalist Susie Meissner has crafted an intelligently conceived and thoughtfully paced survey of the Great American Songbook. Meissner's considerations of the standard jazz repertoire, in concert with pianist John Shaddy's sturdy arrangements and educated performance manner, have emerged, evolving from chaste and reverent beginnings, into rich and ...

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2020

Lisa Maxwell, whose album Shiny! marks the recorded debut of her New York City-based Jazz Orchestra, is a pretty good composer and a very good arranger, even though several of her charts lean toward funk / rock, admittedly an acquired taste. Once she veers away from those two-beat cadences, as on “Ludie," “The Craw," “Hello, Wayne?" ...

Susie Meissner: I'll Remember April

by C. Michael Bailey
August 25, 2020

Philadelphia-based vocalist Susie Meissner has been surveying the Great American Songbook for the past decade and some. Her approach is uncomplicated, using simple head arrangements, presenting the songs that made Tin Pan Alley noteworthy in a straightforward and authentic fashion, and recalling the original intentions of the composers. Hers is an archival and entertainment endeavor not ...