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Jack Sheldon in New Orleans
by Jim Santella
Jack Sheldon Jack Sheldon in New Orleans Kultur 2005 At a live 1984 performance in Lulu White's Mahogany Hall on Bourbon Street, Jack Sheldon and his all-star ensemble perform a program of straight-ahead jazz pieces that finds them sizzling as if there's no tomorrow. Sheldon's voice was then ...
Bobby McFerrin: Try This at Home
by Jim Santella
Bobby McFerrin Try This at Home EuroArts 2005 Bobby McFerrin has the audience in the palm of his hand for this one-man concert that he performed in 2001 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He communicates with the large audience naturally and evokes a friendly response. Who ...
Eric Lewis: Hopscotch
by Woodrow Wilkins
Eric Lewis Hopscotch Fortress Records 2005 Sound is best reserved for the ears. I can appreciate videos of concerts or even studio sessions as much as the next guy, but something about the Hopscotch DVD by jazz pianist Eric Lewis leaves me with the question: Why bother? Lewis ...
Eric Lewis: Hopscotch
by John Kelman
Eric Lewis Hopscotch Fortress Records FUSA 0502-2 2005 While he's been an incredibly busy pianist since emerging onto the scene in the mid-1990s, pianist Eric Lewis has been surprisingly underexposed as a leader. Still, while working with artists including trombonist Robin Eubanks and Cassandra Wilson has given him some cachet, ...
Peter Bernstein Trio: Live at Smoke
by John Kelman
Peter Bernstein Trio Live at Smoke Mel Bay Records MB20961DVD 2005 Since the early 1990s, guitarist Peter Bernstein, organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart have clocked a lot of musical time together. Recording and gigging as the Peter Bernstein Trio, the Larry Goldings Trio, or the Bill Stewart Trio ...
Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat
by Jim Santella
Phil Woods A Life in E Flat Jazzed Media 2005 Intertwined with a one-hour documentary about the life of Phil Woods in his own words comes a musical collage of shorts from the making of his recent album, This is How I Feel About Quincy. We ...
Poncho at Montreux
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by Jim Santella
Poncho Sanchez Poncho at Montreux Concord Picante 2004 Poncho Sanchez looks great. He and his band simply don't age. They rock and swing with inexhaustible energy. Sitting at the congas leading his band, and singing from the Latin jazz tradition, he kicks off this indoor concert performance at ...
Eric Lewis: Hopscotch
by Andrew Velez
Eric Lewis Hopscotch Fortress Records 2005 Pianist Eric Lewis makes an anticipated solo debut in a classic piano trio setting, backed by newcomer Paul Beaudry (bass) and veteran Ralph Penland (drums). The Camden, New Jersey native studied classically from a very young age before his interest turned to jazz around ...
Al Di Meola/Jean-Luc Ponty/Stanley Clarke: Live at Montreux
by Jerry D'Souza
Al Di Meola/Jean-Luc Ponty/Stanley ClarkeLive at Montreux 1994Eagle Rock Entertainment2005 It was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1994 that Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke played as a trio for the first time. Clarke and Di Meola had been part of Return to Forever and while they ...
Eric Lewis: Hopscotch
by Jim Santella
Eric Lewis Hopscotch Fortress Records 2005 The Eric Lewis trio interprets a program of swinging originals and several standards for this video performance that is duplicated on CD. The package comes with both. Recalling the hip, yet classical nature of the Modern Jazz Quartet, the trio ...
