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Kenny Burrell: Love Is the Answer
by Jack Bowers
This is lovely music that conveys a lovely theme of peace, tolerance, understanding and self-reliance. Although it draws on Jazz for inspiration, and several Jazz musicians are involved including composer/guitarist Burrell, it's not really Jazz, nor is it classical, blues or gospel, but rather a combination of those elements and others woven together to make up ...
Louie Bellson's Big Band Explosion!: The Art of the Chart
by Jack Bowers
From time to time, drummer Louie Bellson releases an album with a “theme" (Their Time Was the Greatest, dedicated to big-band drummers; Air Mail Special, to celebrated bandleaders, for example). This time around, with Art of the Chart, he has chosen to salute some of the world's finest arrangers. A wise choice, as charts are the ...
Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass: Full Circle
by Jack Bowers
I really do appreciate the easygoing sound of a well–played guitar — even though I couldn’t separate one guitarist from another if they walked up to me, shook hands and introduced themselves. On this new two–disc set from Concord we have not one but four well–played guitars in the capable hands of a quartet of recognized ...
Avishai Cohen: Adama
by Jack Bowers
It’s true, one can’t always appraise a book by its cover. Looking at bassist Avishai Cohen’s grim visage on the jacket of Adama, I was expecting to hear music of a similar temperament within. And while there are a few brooding passages, most of Cohen’s music — he wrote 11 of the disc’s dozen selections — ...
Nnenna Freelon: Maiden Voyage
by Jack Bowers
No matter how impressive the voice, no matter how well–oiled the pipes — and Lord knows Nnenna Freelon is abundantly blessed in both respects — he or she simply cannot rise far above the material. Although Freelon makes a gallant effort on Maiden Voyage, the ship barely gets out of drydock, overladen with forgettable lyrics and ...
Eric Allison: After Hours
by Jack Bowers
After Hours was a mega-hit for trumpeter Erskine Hawkins' orchestra in the '40s, and this second release on Contemporary by reedman Eric Allison is dedicated to the memory of Hawkins and his pianist, Avery Parrish, who wrote After Hours. Further than that, the session embodies the sort of late-night mood that once permeated the club scene ...
Lou Montelione: Comin' Back Home
by Jack Bowers
Don't know where Lou Montelione has been, but it's a pleasure to welcome him home. Take my word, the man plays some serious Jazz piano! Even better, don't take my word and listen for yourself. If you aren't as convinced as I was, well - listen a second time. You'll hear something new and exciting every ...
Mike Longo: Dawn of a New Day
by Jack Bowers
Although the name Mike Longo isn't as readily known in Jazz circles as, say, Oscar Peterson, Kenny Barron, Tommy Flanagan, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris or Hank Jones, his pianistic acumen is assuredly in the same league with those gentlemen. One doesn't serve as Dizzy Gillespie's pianist/music director, as Longo did for many years, without having something ...
Martha Lorin: The Time Is Now
by Jack Bowers
One thing a Jazz reviewer learns rather quickly - if his or her eyes are open and ears unclogged - is that there a great many talented players who haven't achieved the sort of recognition they deserve. The same is true of vocalists. A couple of years ago I happened across a wonderful singer - Hinda ...
Jodie Christian: Soul Fountain
by Jack Bowers
This album, recorded more than three years ago, is dedicated to the memory of Art Porter, whose enlivening presence serves to remind one how much ripening talent was lost when the 35-year-old saxophonist was drowned in November 1996 while on a tour in Thailand. Porter more than holds his own in the company of a couple ...
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