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Melissa Walker: Moment of Truth
by Robert Spencer
Melissa Walker has a smoky, soulful voice. She is no screamer or wailer, but has just as much of an emotional impact as any of they do by skillful choices of rhythm and emphasis. She can even invest slight material like Janis Ian's mawkish “Seventeen" with a certain sincerity and poise. And on an offbeat number ...
Marty Grebb: Smooth Sailin'
by Ed Kopp
It's usually a mistake when one artist tries to play multiple instruments on a solo album. But few blues cats are as versatile as Marty Grebb, and everything he touches turns to gold on Smooth Sailin'.Grebb is a huge talent who has collaborated with dozens of big-name artists, beginning with the Buckinghams and lately ...
Ingrid Jensen: Higher Grounds
by David Adler
Ingrid Jensen is a young trumpet/flugelhorn marvel who assembled a stellar lineup for her third Enja CD, Higher Grounds. With Gary Thomas on tenor sax and flute, David Kikoski on piano and Fender Rhodes, Ed Howard on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums, you know the session is going to burn hot. From the invigorating melody ...
Ingrid Jensen: Higher Grounds
by Jim Santella
Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen was finishing up at the Berklee College of Music in Boston at about the same time Art Blakey left us. His music lives on, of course, and Jensen is one of the benefactors. Now over thirty, the trumpeter is an exponent of the high regard for round tone quality espoused by Woody Shaw, ...
Bobby Previte-Marc Ducret: In The Grass
by Glenn Astarita
What we have here are a series of duets from two extremely “happening” musicians. Guitarist Marc Ducret and drummer Bobby Previte are undeniably two of the most productive and revered musician/composers of recent times, mainly within modern jazz circles. On In The Grass these gifted stylists take a gregarious stab at stirring up the pot sans ...
James Emery Septet: Spectral Domains
by Glenn Astarita
Solo artist and member of the critically acclaimed “String Trio of New York”, guitar virtuoso James Emery has produced a bonafide winner in Spectral Domains. Emery is one of the world’s finest guitarists and possesses an encyclopedic jazz vocabulary as a technician and composer. The James Emery Septet is an assemblage of modern, cutting edge jazz ...
