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Peggy Lee: Black Coffee
by David Rickert
"A Woman Alone With the Blues" features sparse piano, whispering drums, and a mournful trumpet lurking in the background. But it's the vocals that really push it over the edge. Peggy Lee doesn't sing this song; she crawls into it and huddles in the dark spaces, as she does on virtually all of the songs on ...
Vince Guaraldi: Oaxaca
by David Rickert
"Dr. Funk" may seems like an odd nickname for Vince Guaraldi, most known for composing the music for the Peanuts specials, yet this is how he was known by his peers. While there are certainly others more deserving of the moniker, this new reissue will shed some light as to how he got it. For in ...
Rosemary Clooney: Rosie Solves The Swingin' Riddle
by David Rickert
Rosemary Clooney declared her love affair with Nelson Riddle “the best blending of my job and my personal life that I've ever had." While it ended their respective marriages, it also resulted in some excellent music. Riddle will be familiar to most as the guy who orchestrated the great Sinatra records for Capitol; ...
Bing Crosby: Bing With A Beat
by David Rickert
They just don't write songs like “I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" anymore. It's a catchy melody combined with witty lyrics that conveys an innocent longing for love that would be inconceivable as a radio hit today. However, the same goes for just about any other song on Bing With A Beat. ...
Canaries: Peggy Lee and Anita O'Day Reissues
by David Rickert
Peggy Lee Black Coffee Verve 2004 (1956) “A Woman Alone With the Blues" features sparse piano, whispering drums, and a mournful trumpet lurking in the background. But it's the vocals that really push it over the edge. Peggy Lee doesn't sing this song; she crawls into it and huddles in ...
Joe Pass: Blues For Fred
by David Rickert
Joe Pass's Virtuoso (Pablo, 1974) was a milestone: not only was it a terrific CD, it was also the first solo jazz guitar record that was worth listening to all the way through. Pass melded the harmonic virtuosity of Art Tatum to a rock 'n' roll sensibility that appealed to fans of Coltrane and Hendrix alike. ...
Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Boy Named Charlie Brown
by David Rickert
By any standard, “Linus and Lucy" is a great song. Anyone over the age of seven is familiar with the melody, a catchy tune instantly identifiable with the Peanuts gang. It also put Vince Guaraldi, an artist who might otherwise have been a one-hit wonder with “Cast Your Fate To the Wind" and relegated to the ...
Bobby Darin: Aces Back to Back!
by David Rickert
Bobby Darin Aces Back to Back! Hyena Records 2004 For a time Bobby Darin's reputation rested solely on two songs: “Splish Splash" and “Mack the Knife." Taken together, they represent Darin's transition from the teen market to the adult market, something that very few were able to do. ...
Rob Levit: Uncertain Path & Anatomy of Ecstasy
by David Rickert
Rob Levit Uncertain Path Symbol System Records 2004 Many musicians who explore a wide variety of musical styles are unable to combine them into a coherent whole. Not Rob Levit though, a guitarist who is able to seamlessly blend all sorts of influences from blues to funk to ...
The Frank and Joe Show: 33 1/3
by David Rickert
It's easy to forget that in the beginning jazz was music designed for entertainment and not considered serious art. The Frank & Joe Show takes its inspiration from such a time, a bygone era when the audience preferred to jitterbug rather than to just sit and listen. Frank Vignola has already displayed a serious Django jones ...
