Label: Enja Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Memories; Black Inside; Latin Dance; Just In Time; Basel; Sweet; Brother Kenny; Chaotic Romance: Dumb Show; My One And Only Love.

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Relativity

By Marty Ehrlich

Label: Enja Records
Released: 1999

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Melissa Walker: Moment of Truth

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

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 ...

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Ingrid Jensen: Higher Grounds

Read "Higher Grounds" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
October 1, 1999

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 ...

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Ingrid Jensen: Higher Grounds

Read "Higher Grounds" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 1, 1999

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, ...

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Marty Grebb: Smooth Sailin'

by Ed Kopp
October 1, 1999

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 ...

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Bobby Previte-Marc Ducret: In The Grass

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 1999

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 ...