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Jim Hall in Duet with Enrico Pieranunzi & Geoff Keezer: Duologues and Free Association
by Michael McCaw
It's becoming well-documented how Jim Hall has and is exploring the art of the duo in depth, whether with Pat Metheny, Bill Evans, or more recent associations with Enrico Pieranunzi and Geoffrey Keezer. And as classic as albums such as Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1963) or Jim Hall and Basses (Telarc, 2001) are, these more recent duo ...
Julia Dollison: Observatory
by Jim Santella
With Ben Monder's guitar harmonies surrounding her light, airy voice, Julia Dollison sings familiar tunes and several originals on this debut album. She overdubs her voice in order to achieve a choir of similar voices. Delivering lines with a cool demeanor, she expresses each message openly with a contemporary flair. Emotion plays a considerable part in ...
Marty Ehrlich: News On The Rail
by Joel Roberts
Multi-reedist Marty Ehrlich can always be counted on to make thoughtful, provocative music on the modern-creative end of the jazz spectrum. His last album (The Long View, 2003) featured an extended large-group composition inspired by the work of painter Oliver Jackson. News On The Rail is a somewhat less abstract effort comprising eight new tunes written ...
Ben Allison: Bringing Listeners to the Music
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
Ben Allison is a jazz musician you should keep an eye on. Influenced by Charlie Haden, but with a voice all his own, this year seems to be quite a ride for his career. DownBeat magazine selected him as one of the “25 rising jazz stars for the future," and he also won the prestigious “Bird ...
Marty Ehrlich: News on the Rail
by David Miller
Jazz is a big word. And the jazz world is a big world. In an independent study of mine, I am trying to define just how big that world is. But that's the thing. It's boundless. And not only is it boundless, but musicians are constantly exploring new frontiers, trying things that haven't been tried before. ...
Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is
by Jim Santella
The Ray Barretto Sextet delivers. It turns a program of traditional songs and original pieces into a performance of modern jazz designed to inspire. The conguero, who knows about finding rich talent, has put together a stellar ensemble that performs with cohesion, precision, and passion. It's been nearly fifty years since Barretto replaced Mongo ...
Helen Merrill: Lilac Wine; Andrea Wolper: The Small Hours
by Andrew Velez
Helen Merrill Lilac Wine Sunnyside 2005 Listen carefully to Helen Merrill's phrasing as she revisits “Lilac Wine , a song she first recorded in the '50s. “...I think I'm ready for my love... It's her ever-so-delicate emphasis of “ready which makes the impassioned state she's in so clear. Always at ...
Roz Corral: Telling Tales; Rene Marie: Serene Renegade
by Donald Elfman
Sure there have been more discs from female jazz singers now than at almost any other time, but they've enabled us to find women whom we might not have had the good fortune to find before -women who understand the tradition, choose their material carefully and care about telling a story. Roz Corral ...
Cal Tjader: Best of Concord Years / Sextet; Charlie Byrd: Homage to Jobim
by Francis Lo Kee
Here are three sets of music by musicians associated under the expansive banner of Latin jazz. Stan Getz is usually credited with starting the fusion of Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. However, classically trained guitarist Charlie Byrd (and his sideman, perhaps most importantly the drummer Buddy Deppenschmidt) was among the first to go on a South ...
Marian McPartland: Piano Jazz with Teddy Wilson & Lionel Hampton
by AAJ Staff
By Chris DiGirolamo Over 25 years ago South Carolina Educational Radio gave us Marian McPartland's “Piano Jazz , the long-running public radio program in which McPartland invites guest artists into her studio for candid one-on-one chats about music. Over 500 programs later we continue to be blessed with releases from some of the select sessions, such ...
