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Turning Point
Label: J Curve Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Fantasy in D; Turning Point; Turkish Moonrise; Jackson's Actions; The Shadow of your Smile; Con Alma; Head Trip; Mom's Tune.
Various Artists: We Remember Tal: A Tribute To Tal Farlow
by Jim Santella
Six leading jazz guitarists on one album. It’s a fine tribute to a legend. Tal Farlow’s acute single-note runs and energetic bebop drive distinguished him as one of the premier jazz guitarists of the 1950s. Replacing Mundell Lowe in the Red Norvo Trio and moving on later to Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five, Farlow helped establish the ...
Various: We Remember Tal A Tribute To tal farlow
by Mark Corroto
Last year I happened to be in New York the day Tal Farlow died. I sat in a hotel room listening to the DJ play his records. What a revelation! I begged out of an invitation to dinner and continued to listen. Most of the tracks came from out-of-print vinyl sides, since little of Tal’s music ...
Kenny Poole: For George: Tribute to a Master
by Jack Bowers
As I’ve written many times before, I know guitarists by name and reputation more than by sound or mannerisms. So what a particular guitarist plays is (usually) more important to me than how he (or she) goes about doing it. I suppose what I’m trying to say is that most guitarists sound pretty much the same ...
Kenny Poole: For George: A Tribute To A Master
by Jim Santella
Just five months before he passed away last year at the age of 85, guitarist George Van Eps performed a few Father’s Day quartet sets at a small restaurant near his home in Southern California with local artists. Sharing a memory with the audience of bouncing on George Gershwin’s knee as a small child, Van Eps ...
Darren Barrett: First One Up
by Mark Corroto
Winner of the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, trumpeter Darren Barrett picks up where many of today’s young cats start, at the alter of Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, and Kenny Dorham. That ain’t all bad. Barrett, a member of Jackie McLean’s working band, churns from the gitgo on this recording. Produced by Donald Byrd, this ...
Darren Barrett: First One Up
by Jack Bowers
This is the debut recording by trumpeter Darren Barrett who in ’97 won the annual international Jazz competition sponsored by the Thelonious Monk Institute. The man clearly has exceptional chops and enthusiasm to match — but he leaves an inescapable impression that what is being said has been recited many times before, often with deeper awareness ...
Lenora Zenzalai Helm: Spirit Child
by Jim Santella
In her debut recording, singer Lenora Zenzalai Helm scat-sings and transforms poignant lyrics in an array of jazz styles. Helm, who has a vocal degree from The Berklee College of Music in Boston and has represented the U.S. State Department on a month-long tour of Africa, has put together a winning team effort. However, the singer’s ...
Lenora Zenzalai Helm: Spirit Child
by Jack Bowers
After reading Stanley Cowell’s acclamatory liner notes to Spirit Child, I was prepared to embrace the second coming of Sarah, Billie, Ella and Carmen in one glorious package. Lenora Zenzalai (“Zen–zay–lay,” Zulu for “spirit child”) Helm is a talented young singer who certainly shows promise, but no one could live up to the kind of advance ...
Aaron Goldberg: Turning Point
by Jack Bowers
A beautifully recorded session that really percolates. This is essentially a quartet date (Goldberg, Turner, Rogers, Harland) with Josh Redman sitting in for Turner on “The Shadow of Your Smile,” Cook adding wordless vocals on “Fantasy in D” and “Mom’s Tune,” and Kalé making it a quintet on “Jackson’s Actions.” There’s one trio track, Dizzy Gillespie’s ...
