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Chuck Redd: Remembers Barney Kessel: Happy All The Time
by Edward Blanco
Vibraphonist and drummer Chuck Redd pays tribute to a close friend and one of his musical fathers, the late legendary jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, on this recording featuring five Kessel compositions and other favorite standards recorded by the guitarist. A much in-demand drummer featured on fifty recordings throughout his career, Redd plays the drums on only ...
Greg Abate Quintet: Monsters In The Night
by Edward Blanco
Jazz master and multi-saxophonist Greg Abate, long known as the “prince of bebop," has thirteen previous recordings as a leader to his credit. Harnessing his physical style of play and combining it with his versatility on the saxophones and flute, he has made one hair-raising and jaw-dropping album with Monsters In The Night, whose nine tracks ...
The Tony Gairo-Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra: Treacherous
by Edward Blanco
A working big band performing Tuesday nights at the Indulge Restaurant and Night Club in Allentown, Pennsylvania since 2003, the Tony Gairo-Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra debuts with this album sculpted in the finest big band jazz tradition. Led by saxophonist Tony Gairo and drummer Gary Rissmiller, this sixteen-piece ensemble of local players lays down eight tracks ...
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Rediscovered Music of Mary Lou Williams
by Edward Blanco
The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is known for performing the obscure and neglected works of better-known composers, arrangers and bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Billy Strayhorn, and Gerry Mulligan. With this album, the group continues its historic mission by unearthing and reviving the music of Mary Lou Williams. One of the few women in jazz who ...
Dave Askren: Some Other Things
by Edward Blanco
This new release by Los Angeles-based jazz guitarist Dave Askren is his second album in four years with a small ensemble cast. In his first, a trio tribute to Bill Evans titled Re: Bill Evans, Askren recorded with bassist Mike Flick and drummer Steve Sykes. Some Other Things brings together Flick, drummer Jon Nathan, Askren and ...
Joe Wulf & The Gentlemen of Swing: Dixieland Jubilee 2005
by Edward Blanco
German trombonist/bandleader Joe Wulf and the so-called Gentlemen of Swing recorded this live performance in Kornwestheim, Germany in January of 2005, mixing traditional jazz swing with the blues sound of the '30s and '40s. The members of Wulf's seven-piece band provide some outstanding solo performances and collectively deliver a respectable big band feel on this fifteen-track ...
The Happy Pals: New Orleans Party Orchestra
by Edward Blanco
The city of New Orleans may never be the same after Hurricane Katrina, but the monster storm will not dampen the spirit of the jazz music for which it is known. New Orleans jazz is alive and well and has taken root in, of all places, Toronto, Canada. The Toronto-based Happy Pals septet, which has been ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Old School: New Lessons
by Edward Blanco
Arranger and saxophonist Bob Mintzer has been nominated for thirteen Grammy awards, not only for his solo work and big band recordings, but also for his efforts with the Yellowjackets quartet, and Old School, New Lessons clearly shows why. The music is original, exciting, energetic and captivating. After a 23-year, twelve-album association with Digital Music Products, ...
Chris Walden Big Band: Winter Games
by Edward Blanco
The 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy have passed into history, leaving us with many golden moments and some musical memories from composer David Foster, who wrote the Olympic theme music. German composer/arranger and bandleader Chris Walden, who has written over 400 arrangements for big band and symphony orchestra throughout his career, penned his own jazzy ...
Phil Woods: Unheard Herd
by Edward Blanco
In his long and illustrious career, the late Woody Herman led many big bands, including several known as his Thundering Herds. The Unheard Herd recaptures the music of Herman's Second Herd, aka The Four Brothers Band. Some of the music on this set, a selection of his charts from the late forties, was never recorded by ...
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