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Rick DellaRatta Trio: Live in Brazil & The Blue Note
by Jack Bowers
Pianist DellaRatta’s trio makes a dreadful start on this country–hopping two–disc set with the leader’s lightweight original, “Living Inside a Daydream,” on which his ho–hum vocal is accompanied either by a string section or a synthesized imitation of same. The other numbers on Disc 1 are much more appealing, even though DellaRatta sings again on his ...
Phyllis Ford: My Own Space
by Jack Bowers
The best surprises are those that are entirely unexpected — and what a wonderful surprise this was. Phyllis Ford, an Englishwoman who has sung professionally since she was a teen–ager but hadn’t done so since moving to the States in 1970, has resumed her career with an album that is positively enchanting from end to end. ...
Lisa Linn: On Such a Wonderful Summer Night
by Jack Bowers
Although the liner notes describe an outdoor concert on a football green with thousands seated on the grass and Lisa Linn singing from atop a lorry, Summer Night is actually a studio date recorded in March/April ’98 at Radio Sweden. So much for truth in advertising. As for the music, it’s pleasantly loose and swinging, but ...
Pete McCann: Parable
by Jack Bowers
While the music he chooses to play isn’t always to my liking, Pete McCann is an enormously talented guitarist who cleverly splashes intense colors across an expansive musical canvas. He’s also something of a chameleon, shrewdly modifying style and substance to mirror the requirements of each composition. So it is that on one track he may ...
Eddie Henderson Quintet: Reemergence
by Jack Bowers
Eddie Henderson is one of those immoderately talented but relatively unsung players who are known as “musicians' musicians," mainly because the public at large has almost no idea who they are or what they are capable of doing--which in Henderson's case is almost anything he pleases, at least on trumpet. The 58--year--old veteran was influenced by ...
The Patti Wicks Trio: Room at the Top
by Jack Bowers
If there were more “room at the top --for Jazz artists, that is--here's one pianist who'd be knocking loudly on that elusive door known as fame. Patti Wicks, who's several light""years away from household name status even in south Florida, where she lives and performs, not only plays piano with as much warmth, elegance and charm ...
Haunted Melodies: Songs of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
by Jack Bowers
If this tribute album consisting of 13 compositions by the incomparable Rahsaan Roland Kirk seems to roam widely over the musical map, that’s a pretty fair description of what Kirk himself did for nearly two decades before his untimely death in December 1977 at age 41. While the listener may have admired or been repelled by ...
Joel Frahm: Sorry, No Decaf
by Jack Bowers
Joel Frahm, an eloquent young post–bopper, reminds me of another of my favorite up–and–coming young lions, the irrepressible Eric Alexander, who reminds me of George Coleman, who reminds me of Dexter Gordon, who reminds me of . . . well, you get the picture — and it’s an almost unbroken lineal progression from bop’s unsophisticated roots ...
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 ...
Scott Hall Quartet: Strength in Numbers
by Jack Bowers
There’s an abundance of talented young Jazz musicians on the scene today, far more than the traffic can bear, and chances are that only a handful will ever become well–known and/or wealthy. Scott Hall, who’s never been one to sit around and simply let things happen, knows well the odds against musical success, especially in a ...
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