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Home for Christmas
by Ernest Barteldes
Making a holiday CD is definitely a challenge that many artists take on but few succeed at with something that sounds unique enough to catch listeners' attention. After all, by early December one is already fed up with all the music played at record stores, coffee houses and even at the local supermarket. ...
Freddy Cole: Cole and Laid Back
by Ernest Barteldes
For Music Maestro Please (High Note, 2007), his seventeenth releases since I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me (High Note, 1990), singer/pianist Freddy Cole teamed with pianist Bill Charlap and his trio, featuring bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington. The album features songs that, for the most part, the Georgia Music Hall of Famer (he was ...
Fabian Zone Trio: The Masters Return!
by Ernest Barteldes
On his second album, longtime Lionel Hampton Big Band bassist Christian Fabian showcases a collection of tunes that draws in listeners and won't let go until the disc comes to an end. While the CD mostly contains music recorded in a trio format, many of its highlights include guests Jimmy Owens (trumpet) and Andres Boiarsky (tenor ...
Omer Avital: Arrival
by Ernest Barteldes
Though the picture on this disc's cover might bring to mind some kind of 1970s folk-rock star, the music inside has nothing to do with that. The Israeli-born bassist weaves through a variety of feels, from simple funky beats to more complex rhythmical patterns with some Latin-inspired moments in between. On “Big Time, ...
Ellen Johnson: These Days
by Ernest Barteldes
Chicago-raised vocalist and educator Ellen Johnson emerges with a disc that explores her vast range and improvisational technique without attempting to sound pretentious, an all-too-common trait among jazz vocalists. This is evident throughout These Days, but most specifically on bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz' bossa nova-tinged “Inspiration, a wordless tune which features Brazilian percussionist Ana Gazzola on shakers ...
Arturo Sandoval: His Group & Rumba Palace
by Ernest Barteldes
Arturo Sandoval & His Group Arturo Sandoval & His Group Malanga Music 2007 Arturo Sandoval Rumba Palace Telarc 2007 Arturo Sandoval's career, from his early days in ...
Alexis Cole: Zingaro
by Ernest Barteldes
On this Toronto-based (but New York-born) vocalist's second release, she takes on several familiar standards with a personal signature, enhanced by a sparse instrumentation: here, she is accompanied solely by guitarist Ron Affif and bassist Jeffry Eckels, who play on all the tracks but the two Cole originals, the upbeat “Walkin' and “Morning With You, both ...
Cachao: Mambo Man
by Ernest Barteldes
At 89 years of age, Israel “Cachao Lopez continues to perform the mambo, the Afro-Cuban rhythm that he helped create with his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez; a genre that gained international fame through the efforts of Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and ,principally, Perez Prado, among others. Cachao, however, did not enjoy the initial fame of ...
David Hazeltine Trio: The Jobim Songbook in New York
by Ernest Barteldes
On this project, pianist David Hazeltine takes on the music of the late Jobim (who would have turned eighty in 2007) by looking at the music from an American point of view, without the typical bossa nova elements. Most of the music presented here is well-known, from “The Girl from Ipanema to “Quiet Nights of Quiet ...
Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts
by Ernest Barteldes
Bill Evans The Oslo Concerts Shanachie 2007 On this DVD, we see two distinctive phases of pianist Bill Evans' career - the first a 1966 concert played at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Alex Riel, filmed in black and white, followed ...
