Results for "Jason Lewis"

Jason Lewis

The Heart Always Remembers

Label: LoveDog! Media
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fascinating Rhythm; When Did You Leave Heaven?; Practical Arrangement; In My Arms; Too Much Heaven; Corner Store Blues; A Sweet Wind; Nice Weather For Ducks; Whistling Away The Dark/Anyone Can Whistle; The Heart Always Remembers; Trav'lin All Alone/Travelin' Light; So Quiet Is The Night; Let The Music Take You.

Sandra Marlowe: The Heart Always Remembers

by Dan Bilawsky
March 31, 2021

The heart always remembers, but so too do the ears. Vocalist Sandra Marlowe, probably aware of that fact, quickly grabs attention by demonstrating a real métier for metric play and gymnastics on pianist Larry Dunlap's witty, album-opening arrangement of “Fascinating Rhythm." Once that focus is on her work, Marlowe doesn't let up. In short order there's ...

And Then It Rained

By Michael O'Neill

Label: Jazzmo Records
Released: 2020

The Michael O'Neill Quartet: And Then It Rained

by Dan McClenaghan
October 24, 2020

San Francisco area-based reedman Michael O'Neill, noted most prominently for his work with vocalist Kenny Washington, takes his artistry on a new tangent with And Then It Rained. The set features a top-tier Bay Area quartet which digs deep into a set of O'Neill originals. Recording-wise, this is new territory for O'Neill, who, in addition to ...

Ten Artists: April 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
April 2, 2019

Claudia Vorbach Is There a Time? Phoneector 2018 Claudia Vorbach follows up Come Down Easy (Phoneector, 2016) with these 14 smart original compositions infused with the swagger of a confident composer/singer. At first blush, Vorbach sounds like a relaxed Nora Jones, playfully whimsical and vocally daring. Vorbach sings with an assured ...

Kristen Strom: Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett

by Jack Bowers
December 24, 2018

The esteemed bassist John Shifflett was for roughly thirty years a mainstay in countless San Francisco Bay Area sessions and recordings until his untimely passing in April 2017. Gone, that's true, but far from forgotten. Shifflett, as it turns out, had another largely hidden talent as a composer of bright and accessible jazz tunes, seven of ...

John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Basement Blues

by Dan McClenaghan
August 4, 2016

Basement Blues is the third Origin Records CD offering from the John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet, following Shot Through With Beauty (2009) and Live Beauty, (2013). Guitarist Stowell's approach is distinctive--silvery chords and pinprick single notes that reverberate from the rafters. Saxophonist Zilber is a flawless, soulful technician on soprano and tenor saxophones. Bassist John Shifflett and ...

John Stowell/Michael Zilber Quartet: Live Beauty

by Dan McClenaghan
February 27, 2015

Part of the appeal of the teaming of guitarist John Stowell with various “post Coltrane" saxophonists is the cool/hot dynamic. Stowell is the guy with a Zen restraint, the cool guy, his chords sometimes sounding as if they are ringing from frozen stalactite filaments in ice caves. Saxophonists? Some blow cool-- those of the Lester Young/Stan ...

Jim Norton Collective: Time Remembered: Compositions of Bill Evans

by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2014

The late Bill Evans was so celebrated a pianist that even some partisans may overlook the fact that he was also a splendid composer with a number of oft-revisited jazz themes to his credit. Saxophonist / arranger Jim Norton hasn't forgotten, and has entrusted Time Remembered, his debut album as leader of the Jim Norton Collective, ...