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Jessy J: Hot Sauce
by Jeff Winbush
The third major album by saxophonist Jessica Spinella (a.k.a. Jessy J) reflects both a reliance on a proven formula and the stirrings of venturing into unexplored territory. Jessy's got a problem. She can attribute much of her success to veteran producer Paul Brown, whose other clients include Euge Groove, Rick Braun and Boney James. ...
John Scofield: Peaceful Pursuits
by John Kelman
Sometimes a recording comes together easily, with a minimum of muss or fuss. Other times, life seems to conspire against it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't get done, or that it suffers as a result. Sometimes, in fact, it can make the end result even better. For John Scofield-- one-third of a power trifecta ...
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds Turns 50
by Alan Bryson
Think back fifty years to the days portrayed on the TV series Mad Men. In 1961, John Kennedy and Billboard's Easy Listening Chart were inaugurated, a freedom riders bus was fire-bombed in Alabama, Rock Hudson was on the big screen, and Doris Day was selling albums. As teenagers and their swinging parents were ...
Charito: Heal The World
by C. Michael Bailey
Michael Jackson tribute discs are inevitable. Every stripe will be conceived and performed, from the sublime to the truly frightening. Chiming in at the front of the former line is Charito's excellent Heal The World. The Japan-based singer is best known for her successful string of recordings begun in the early 1990s. Her singing is plush ...
Jazz Backstage: Harvey Mason (Early Years)
Legendary drummer Harvey Mason returns to Jazz Online's Jazz Backstage podcast and this time he's reflecting on his early studio days and working with producers Larry and Fonce Mizell. During his tenure working with the Mizells, Harvey recorded countless sessions working with everyone from Donald Byrd to Johnny Hammond to Bobbi Humphrey. Many of those recordings ...
Charito: Heal The World
by Dan Bilawsky
Michael Jackson's music has never been bound by genre lines. Jackson will always be known as the “King of Pop," but his recordings have always had a near-universal appeal that transcends any single category. While odd behavior in his private life--and repeated allegations of misconduct with minors--cast a pall over his image in his later years, ...
Eldar's "Three Stories" Coming April 5
Since signing with Sony Masterworks at the age of 17, the young pianist Eldar has worked tirelessly on the road and in the studio to deepen his exploration of the traditions of jazz: bebop, post-bop and beyond. With the April 5th release of Three Stories, his first solo recording on Masterworks Jazz, Eldar pays homage to ...
Jim Hall: Concierto
by John Kelman
Amongst the many CTI classics of the 1970s, few stand the test of time as well as guitarist Jim Hall's Concierto, an ambitious album that, in its original form, married one side of modern mainstream with a second taken up by a 19-minute version of Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 piece for classical guitar and orchestra, “Concierto de ...
CTI Masterworks: The Second Batch
by John Kelman
After a mighty kickoff near the end of 2010, CTI Masterworks is pushing ahead full-steam with another set of six remastered reissues, beautifully packaged in soft digipak editions. Its first batch of reissues included a tremendous, four-disc retrospective box set, CTI Records--The Cool Revolution, and an expanded, double-disc version of 1971's California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium, ...
Fourplay: Let's Touch the Sky
by Jeff Winbush
For Fourplay, it's all a numbers game. 2011 marks the band's 20th anniversary, Let's Touch the Sky is their 12th album, and “new guy," Chuck Loeb is both Fourplay's third personnel change and third guitarist replacing Larry Carlton, who stepped in for Lee Ritenour in 1998.Personnel changes in long-established bands happen when a disgruntled ...
