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Kit McClure Band: The Sweethearts Project
by Jack Bowers
The Kit McClure Band The Sweethearts Project Redhot Records 2004 The subtitle of this new album by the New York-based Kit McClure Band is “A Tribute to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm." For those of you who weren't around in the '40s, that may require a few words ...
Mike Allen Trio: Dialectic
by David A. Orthmann
Mike Allen Trio Dialectic Almus 2003 The winner of the 2003 Western Canadian Music Awards Outstanding Jazz Recording, Mike Allen's Dialectic (Almus, ALM11092) is a prime example of an exceptional disc produced outside of the major jazz centers of the United States. A longtime participant in the fertile Vancouver music ...
Plena Libre:
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Plena Libre ¡Estamos gozando! Times Square Records 2004 In spite of the often quoted nationalistic blurbage found in liner notes, press releases, the printed press and even so-called scholarly sources, the bomba and plena genres aren't a sure fire formula for musical success, nor are they as popular ...
Mosaic Select 11: Dizzy Reece
by C. Andrew Hovan
Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select 11 Mosaic Records During the '50s and '60s there were any number of minor jazz legends recording actively for such independent labels as Prestige, Riverside, Savoy, and Blue Note. As far as trumpeters go, the names Richard Williams, Blue Mitchell, Carmell Jones , Booker Little, and Dizzy Reece ...
Bobby Watson & Horizon: Horizon Reassembled
by Mark Sabbatini
Bobby Watson & Horizon Horizon Reassembled Palmetto Records 2004 To properly appreciate this CD, according to its leader, you need to listen to it five times. No problem. Horizon Reassembled finds alto saxophonist Bobby Watson reuniting with his hard-bop Horizon quintet from the ...
Mosaic Select 8: Duke Pearson
by C. Andrew Hovan
Duke Pearson Mosaic Select 8 Mosaic Records In recent years artists such as Mike LeDonne and Jim Rotondi have brought to light the overwhelming lyrical gifts of composer Duke Pearson in their own recordings of some of his most memorable lines. Unfortunately, too much of Pearson's work lies just under the radar ...
Mosaic Select 7: Curtis Amy
by C. Andrew Hovan
Curtis Amy Mosaic Select 7 Mosaic Records I can still remember doing an interview with Mosaic's Michael Cuscuna several years back when I felt compelled to probe him about the lack of reissues from African American artists who happened to record for the Pacific Jazz label. Many still associate Richard Bock's imprimatur ...
Mosaic Select 6: John Patton
by C. Andrew Hovan
John Patton Mosaic Select 6 Mosaic The great thing about Mosaic's new Select series of reissues is that they are small enough to accommodate a variety of concepts that might not otherwise make sense within the context of the label's full-size sets. While those boxes represent complete outputs of certain artists and/or ...
Jessica Jones Quartet: Nod
by Mark Sabbatini
Jessica Jones Quartet Nod New Artists Records 2004 One of the first things apparent about this album is that it doesn't dwell in any particular time zone. Jessica Jones' third quartet album, Nod , opens with an ensemble that sounds deliberately muffled like a 1950s bebop ...
Edwin Bonilla: Pa
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Edwin Bonilla Pa' La Calle SAR/Guajiro 2004 Pa' la calle, as its preceding two productions for the SAR/Guajiro label, was minutely conceived for the international dancing community and those who cater to them. The majority of DJs in dance clubs, from Israel to Hong Kong, will once more ...
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