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Jeff Kaye: Just Like Me
by Jack Bowers
This breezy, boppish blowing session by Los Angeles-based trumpeter Jeff Kaye's quintet calls to mind Blue Note dates from the '50s and '60s featuring the likes of Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Tommy Flanagan, and so many others. It's most likely not destined to become a classic, ...
Don Menza Big Band: Menza Lines
by Jack Bowers
Don Menza Big Band Menza Lines Jazzed Media 2005 Menza Lines is the second big-band album recorded in October '04 during Stratospheric, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute's salute to the music and career of high-note trumpet maestro Maynard Ferguson. Like the first one, Bill Holman Live, it's a ...
Denise Donatelli: In the Company of Friends
by Jim Santella
Denise Donatelli brings the rich texture of her voice and the subtle rhythmic stride of her phrasing to the forum through a program of familiar jazz standards on In the Company of Friends. Working with an all-star ensemble of Los Angeles veterans, she's comfortable with a balance of heartfelt interpretation and sparkling musical persuasion. ...
Phil Woods: Groovin' to Marty Paich
by Jim Santella
Recorded at a concert in Los Angeles last year honoring the memory and the music of Marty Paich, thirteen straight-ahead jazz veterans got together under the leadership of pianist Christian Jacob to recall the West Coast Cool sound that has become a legend in our time. Featuring Phil Woods, the ensemble invites a big band sound ...
Bill Holman Band: Live
by Jim Santella
Recorded at last year's four-day big band tribute to Maynard Ferguson in Los Angeles, this one-hour session comes straight from the hip. Bill Holman, who always communicates with his audience on several levels, introduces each piece and is sure to recognize each of his band's soloists. Make no mistake about it: they're some of the best ...
The Marvin Stamm/Ed Soph Project: Live at Birdland
by Rick Bruner
There's often a vibe in live performance that isn't easily captured in the studio, especially when the musicians are highly accomplished jazz veterans performing before an appreciative audience. Trumpeter Marvin Stamm and drummer Ed Soph co-lead this wonderful band, recorded live at Birdland in New York City. Bassist Rufus Reid and pianist Bill Mays complete the ...
The Stamm/Soph Project: Live at Birdland
by Jack Bowers
Studio recordings are nice, but if you want to know how jazz musicians really work together, place them in front of an audience. For the Marvin Stamm/Ed Soph Quartet, that's no problem. This is a working unit comprised of gentlemen who not only play together regularly but are temperamentally and musically compatible, to boot. In other ...
The Bill Holman Band Live
by Jack Bowers
The Bill Holman Band Live Jazzed Media 2005 Big band album of the year? It's too early to say, but the first-ever live recording by the superlative Bill Holman Band has earned front-runner status for that honor and will surely be hard to trump. Holman, an acknowledged master in the ...
Denise Donatelli: In The Company of Friends
by Craig Jolley
Everything about In The Company of Friends is first class. For one thing, there is a sense of balance: between comfortable material and challenging reinvention, between brilliantly conceived arrangements (never cluttered) and sparse backgrounds, between ensemble playing and soloing, between singer and accompanist. Each tune is a fresh scenario with its own message, especially in the ...
The Stamm/Soph Project: Live at Birdland NYC
by Jim Santella
Introduced as the Marvin Stamm Quartet at Birdland on September 11 and 13, 2003, this tight ensemble interprets straight-ahead jazz from several different contemporary sources, including dynamic originals by the band's trumpeter, pianist, and bassist. Stamm brings a unique and personal sound to the forum, allowing his tone to waver and fluctuate with a sensitive frame ...
