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Charles Tolliver: With Love
by Joel Roberts
Charles Tolliver burst onto the scene in the '60s as a young trumpet player to be reckoned with, appearing on seminal Blue Note albums by the likes of Jackie McLean, Horace Silver and Andrew Hill. He later fronted the adventurous Music Inc. quartet and founded his own label, Strata East, with pianist Stanley Cowell, before more ...
Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Jim Santella
With this upbeat program of original material, pianist Kenny Werner takes his quintet through a swinging confrontation that combines modern innovation with classical training. His music is timeless. Working with an all-star lineup on Lawn Chair Society that features trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, he's at the top ...
Bebo Valdes & Frederico Britos: We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
by Jerry D'Souza
Bebo Valdes and Federico Britos are an inspired pairing. Valdes, who has been living in Stockholm since 1963, is one of the prime figures of Cuban jazz. The pianist made his biggest impact in the '40s and '50s, before he left the country in 1960. He kept to himself until 1994, when he emerged from his ...
Nancy Wilson: Turned To Blue
by Andrew Velez
Call Nancy Wilson an old fashioned singer. She sings on key. You can understand every lyric. There's no trickery, just putting the song out there straight ahead. Her careful considerations of what she's singing result in a crispy heat that resides in the domain of the peerless Carmen McRae's elegant “less is more style.
Brian Bromberg: Downright Upright
by Jim Santella
Retro-inspired grooves can mean a lot of things--it depends on how far back one wants to go. On Downright Upright, bassist Brian Bromberg takes a retro tour of the era when Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock were reaching a peak. Joe Zawinul and Eddie Harris were changing the scope of jazz. Weather Report was ...
Don Byron: Moving Towards the Idiomatic
by Paul Olson
Don Byron is one the most familiar names in contemporary jazz music and by far the most prominent clarinetist of the last 20 years. Born in the Bronx--and proud of it--Byron was introduced to an eclectic world of music and culture at a very young age by his pianist mother and bass-playing father. His early years ...
Blue Note RVG Editions: Totally Tenors and Trumpets
by C. Andrew Hovan
Helping pave the way for what might soon be a total overhaul of the catalog, master engineer Rudy Van Gelder continues to mine the Blue Note archives--and as the number of catalog items continue to pile up, the hits just keep on coming. This most recent set of a half dozen discs, released at the end ...
Cryptonights at the Jazz Standard: Cryptogramophone Records to Host Week of Concerts at the Jazz Standard in New York
Cryptogramophone Records is a Los Angeles-based record label that prides itself on releasing state-of-the-art recordings of creative improvised music in beautifully designed digipaks. Formed in 1998 by violinist/producer Jeff Gauthier, Cryptogramophone serves the needs of a community of creative artists committed to exploring the cutting edge of improvisation, composition, artistic vision, emotion, and musical innovation. Cryptogramophone ...
Harry Connick Jr.: Chanson du Vieux Carre
by Franz A. Matzner
Simply because it was produced prior to Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact, Harry Connick Jr.'s New Orleans-themed album, Chanson du Veux Carré, has a different texture and tone than many of the impressive tribute albums the jazz world has delivered since that tragic event transpired. While many have sounded themes of lament, nostalgia, defiance, outrage and hope, ...
Marc Copland / Randy Brecker: Both / And
by Ken Dryden
Marc Copland has always had a sense of adventure on his recordings, but Both/And is easily his most rewarding effort to date. For this effort he reunited with trumpeter Randy Brecker (who appeared on two of Copland's earlier CDs) and is joined by bassist Ed Howard and drummer Victor Lewis, who have been paired on a ...
