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Vocalist Kelley Suttenfield Reimagines Neil Young On When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young

September 3, 2019

Kelley Suttenfield is a versatile jazz singer with a warm, intimate voice that’s perfect for her newest project, When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young (September 13, 2019). The album includes some of Neil Young’s most famous songs, as well as a couple of tunes written but never performed by him. Tackling songs ...

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Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

Read "Topics in American History" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 8, 2019

Brooklyn-based guitarist / composer Chris Jentsch writes with clear images in mind and invites the listener to see and hear them as he does. On his sixth and latest CD, Jentsch draws on a longstanding interest in historical events and trends to describe in musical terms Topics in American History ranging from 1491 (the year before ...

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Kayo Hiraki: Manhattan Sunset

Read "Manhattan Sunset" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 13, 2018

Like a fine lemon sorbet, Manhattan Sunset, the sixth album from pianist and veteran NY presence Kayo Hiraki, is that refreshing, necessary pause between courses that enables you to fully enjoy the vast jazz menu. With an airy, elegant touch, tangible zeal and seasoned respect for her art, Hiraki leads her tried-and-true sidemen, bassist ...

Album

Dream Ago

By Gabrielle Stravelli

Label: Big Modern Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dream Dancing, Cole Porter Cake of My Childhood, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary Little Zochee, Pat O'Leary & Gabrielle Stravelli Where Is The Song?, Bob Dorough If Only Love Was Blind, Gabrielle Stravelli Didn't You Tell Me, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jason Robinson & Pat O'Leary Bicycle Blues, Ray Gallon, Pat O'Leary, Gabrielle Stravelli and Jason Robinson It Might As Well Be Spring, Rodgers & Hammerstein Dream Ago, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary Prism, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary More, Gabrielle Stravelli Now I Know, Gabrielle Stravelli, Pat O'Leary & Jason Robinson

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Chris Biesterfeldt: Urban Mandolin

Read "Urban Mandolin" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 18, 2013

Bluegrass instruments like the mandolin, banjo, and fiddle have long been associated genres outside of the high lonesome. This instrumentation has also permeated the jazz and classical worlds as evidenced by the lifetimes of David Grisman, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Vassar Clements, Joe Venuti, Bob Wills and on and on. Mandolinist Chris Biesterfeldt places himself in ...

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Chris Biesterfeldt: Urban Mandolin

Read "Urban Mandolin" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 2, 2013

A mandolin player opening his first album as leader with Dizzy Gillespie's mercurial “Bebop"? Wow! That takes a lot of (fill in the blank). But Chris Biesterfeldt, best known as a guitarist, and for Broadway shows at that, not only sails through those tricky changes but handily nails everything else on this impressive trio album whose ...