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Seung-Hee: Sketches on the Sky
by Mark F. Turner
Brooklyn-based jazz vocalist Seung-Hee possesses the composure of a seasoned chanteuse while demonstrating broader qualities that contain refined arranging skills, classical training, and multilingual singing. The South Korean native represents a soulfully empathetic performer and a composer who's not afraid to take chances as witnessed in Sketches on the Sky, the follow up to 2009's memorable ...
Trumpet Summit: Jeremy Pelt, Brad Goode and Terell Stafford
by C. Michael Bailey
The spirit of trumpeter Miles Davis remains very much a creative quasar furnishing a certain gravitational pull to a considerable population of bodies orbiting it. On the outer edges of this quasar's orbit are the (relatively) young trumpeters who emerged after the pedantic eclipse of Wynton Marsalis occurred. Three of these orbiting horn players have released ...
Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth
by Glenn Astarita
Change is often a precursor for innovation. After many years of straddling modern mainstream, and progressive jazz via his burgeoning solo career and first-call session duties, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt leans a few notches toward the jazz-fusion spectrum on Water and Earth. However, the artist doesn't take matters to the extreme and serves up a compellingly divergent ...
Simple Times
Album: El Dorado
By Frank LoCrasto
Label: Hundred Pockets
Released: 2011
Duration: 5:10
Bobby Selvaggio: Grass Roots Movement
by Mark Corroto
Bobby Selvaggio's Grass Roots Movement, marks his sixth release as leader and second outing for Arabesque Records. This quintet record follows his 2009 disc Modern Times, recorded with veteran pianist Kenny Werner. Here, the saxophonist employs some new names, an electric groove, but no worries, the musicianship retains the highest standards. Here he switches ...
When You're There
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2007
Track listing: Until Dusk; Jaded Brotherhood; Jordan; Overture/The Rathskellar/Interlude; The Metaphysics of Self-Deception; New Beginnings; Troubling Differences; Gathered Impression; Going Home.
Frank LoCrasto: When You're There
by J Hunter
Jazz is like the Constitution--a living thing that evolves with the times. If that weren't true, every player would sound like Louis Armstrong. And while there are more than a few people who would be good with that, obsessively repeating and archiving past triumphs only serves to preserve this music. To keep the genre alive and ...
