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Diana Perez: Sunday Sketches
by Elliott Simon
In an era with an overabundance of female vocalists who keep the band in the background, trading more on image than voice, Diana Perez is a refreshing change, keeping her voice honest and involving her band as an integral part of the music. In the quintet of Bill Gerhardt (piano), Masa Kamaguchi (bass), Tony Moreno (drums), ...
Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4
by Elliott Simon
Indigo4 is one enjoyable morsel drawn from what has become a very broad Italian jazz landscape. Trombonist Gianluca Petrella, who routinely plays with trumpeter Enrico Rava's internationally known band, has assembled a quartet that includes bassist Paolino Dalla Porta, the young and sizzling drummer Fabio Accardi, reedman Francesco Bearzatti, and the judicious use of what amounts ...
David Aaron's Short Memory: Cynical Rat Bastard
by Elliott Simon
The inside jokes surely abound on Cynical Rat Bastard, a quirky recording from tenorist David Aaron's Short Memory band. With a feel that touches on the '70s rhythm sections of Ian Dury's Blockheads, Bastard is just that, a somewhat unholy combination of melodic and free that screams to be heard as well as whimpers in self ...
ZOHO Music
by Elliott Simon
Placing an emphasis on contemporary NYC jazz with a Latin flavor, ZOHO Music in two short years has been able to carve out a special niche defined by infectious rhythms, tight music and a cosmopolitan flair. Debut releases from two of NYC's top working bassists - the brilliant tango nuevo of Pablo Aslan's exquisite Avantango and ...
BB Cooper: Uneasy Street
by Elliott Simon
Ms. BB Cooper is first and foremost a songwriter whose tunes lend themselves to interpretation by a wide variety of singers and instrumentalists. For Uneasy Street, two of Britain's premiere vocalists, Barb Jungr and Ian Shaw, are well-chosen to show another side of Cooper's emotive pen. While her last offering, The Best of British Vocal Jazz, ...
Harkit Records
by Elliott Simon
With their sponsorship of this month's Live from London festival in NYC and unsurpassed archive of classic performances, Harkit Records has rapidly become a worldwide voice for British jazz. Begun in 1999 by collector and jazz aficionado Michael Fishberg, Harkit is definitely the place to go for those impossible to find but wonderfully jazzy British film ...
Stefano Bollani / Jesper Bodilsen / Morten Lund: Gleda: Songs From Scandinavia
by Elliott Simon
Italian pianist Stefano Bollani has again partnered with the top-flight Danish rhythm section of bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund to create something very precious: an hour of emotive music that culminates in the blissful title cut, “Gleda (Joy). While their previous release, Mi Ritorni In Mente (Stunt, 2004), featured standards with Bodilsen as leader, ...
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars: Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge
by Elliott Simon
Trumpeter Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars jump-started New York City's globalFEST this past month. The two-day smorgasbord of sound, now in its third sold-out year at Joe's Pub, featured three concurrent stages of the best in world music. London's aggregation included a bevy of brass, clarinets, vocalists, Brazilian percussion ensemble Scott Kettner & Maracatú New York, ...
Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble / Reflections of the Road
by Elliott Simon
This past month's curation at The Stone by Basya Schechter was noteworthy for new projects by young creative artists; one such event was the double bill of violinist Meg Okura's Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble and accordionist/pianist Uri Sharlin's Cardamon Quartet. Both Okura and Sharlin's groups played selections from debut CDs that elegantly intertwine elements of ...
Mark Colby: Speaking of Stan
by Elliott Simon
Almost fifteen years after the death of tenor saxophonist Stanley Gayetzky, aka Stan Getz, the sheer breadth of his musical accomplishments still boggles the mind. Thus it was with some skepticism that I began to listen to Speaking of Stan, tenor man Mark Colby's tribute to the man about whom Trane said, “Let's face it. We ...
