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Bud Shank / Bill Mays: Beyond the Red Door
by Jack Bowers
At its best, jazz is about spontaneity and surprise. It is also, as Bud Shank writes in his cogent liner notes to Beyond the Red Door, wherein his persuasive alto saxophone is seamlessly blended with Bill Mays's decorous piano, about “the expression of emotions... about feeling good, about self-respect, about self-assurance, about happiness and humor." Shank ...
Mel Martin / Benny Carter Quintet: Just Friends
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Mel Martin, the lesser known half of this clever musical equation, first met the legendary Benny Carter in 1987 and played alongside him for the first time three years later. This quintet date, recorded live at Yoshi's nightclub in Oakland in April 1994, as Carter was nearing his eighty-seventh birthday, shows why he was able ...
N. Glenn Davis Quartet: A Different View
by Jack Bowers
Some drummers have a tendency, whether deliberate or involuntary, when leading an ensemble to turn the spotlight on themselves. Not Glenn Davis, who lets his splendid compositional skills and purposeful timekeeping speak for themselves on A Different View, on which he leads a crew of fellow Clevelanders in an enticing session of buoyant post-bop Jazz. Pianist ...
Jazzed Media
by Ken Dryden
Running a jazz record label has never been for the faint-hearted. Recently a number of major jazz labels have cut back on the volume of new jazz releases, dropping jazz artists while substituting singer/songwriters, cabaret singers and other pop-influenced performers trying to increase sales volume. Several established independents have also suffered, cutting back new releases and ...
Ira Nepus and Steve Moore: Another Time, Another Place
by Edward Blanco
The late alto saxophonist Benny Carter would have been very proud of this first tribute of his music since his passing in 2003. Trombonist and longtime friend, Ira Nepus, collaborates with gifted guitarist Steve Moore in recording thirteen of Carter's best songs for this special album. The duo blends the vibrant sound of the trombone and ...
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: Echoes
by Edward Blanco
Recorded live in September, 1976 at Howard Rumsey's Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, California, Echoes captures a jazz vocals performance by the husband and wife team of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral. Unfortunately, Kral passed away in 2002, making the release of this never-before-issued album the first for Cain since Kral's death. ...
Bob Lark and Friends: Suggestions
by Jack Bowers
If you've not heard of trumpeter Bob Lark, that's probably because he spends much of his time supervising the admirable Jazz Studies program at Chicago's DePaul University. In his spare time, Lark often sits in with some of the Windy City's leading ensembles and has recorded three albums under his own name, including this consistently impressive ...
Bill Holman Band: Hommage
by Jack Bowers
Sometimes it's a matter of perspective. Having attended the concert in May 2006 at which most of Bill Holman's latest album, Hommage, was recorded, I must acknowledge a modest level of disappointment. It didn't seem up to the maestro's usual standards, an opinion I later shared with Graham Carter, head of Jazzed Media Records. Okay, so ...
Jeff Darrohn: T--Bird '60
by Edward Blanco
Inspired by the reed section arrangement techniques of two-time Grammy Award winner Bob Florence from decades of arranging for his own Limited Edition Big Band, master saxophonist Jeff Darrohn creates a six-horn sax section for the recording of T-Bird '60 with one major distinction--he is the entire sax section! Through the use of overdubbing, ...
Pat Bianchi: East Coast Roots
by Gaylord Smith
The leadership debut by Colorado-based organist Pat Bianchi most assuredly speaks of his East Coast Roots from its first notes. In the company of guitarist Mark Whitfield and drummer Byron Landham, Bianchi offers an East Coast burn virtually throughout, lightening the smokin' atmosphere only on “Little B's Poem," “Theme for Ernie" and, to a degree, “Turn ...
