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Chuck Loeb: Between 2 Worlds
by Jeff Winbush
While no one was looking, Chuck Loeb was quietly becoming one of the most interesting guitarists making music today. Loeb kept working as a sideman, composer and arranger, making his own solo albums in a low-key way until he reached the point where any serious conversation about who's among the best in the business that doesn't ...
Tierney Sutton Band: Desire
by Jeff Winbush
On first hearing Desire, by vocalist Tierney Sutton, it's curious why the audience is so quiet, until realizing that it's not a live album, though it sounds like it should be. The underlying and unifying theme here is Sutton's goal to not only deliver the material from a spiritual perspective, but to include recited texts from ...
Tony DeSare: Radio Show
by Jeff Winbush
At a time when, for all intents and purposes, radio has ceased to be the breeding ground for new talent, Tony DeSare's Radio Show takes a long and loving look back at its golden age. It's more than a little ironic that, with the timidly restrictive formats of many radio stations, Radio Show will find it ...
Spyro Gyra: A Night Before Christmas
by Jeff Winbush
In any major artist's discography are some stock entries besides the usual studio releases. There's also the live album, the greatest hits album (even if the artist only had one or none) and the inevitable Christmas album.Why Spyro Gyra felt the urge to release A Night Before Christmas, their album of Christmas songs, is ...
Kim Waters: I Want You - Love in the Spirit of Marvin
by Jeff Winbush
Inspiration is the intangible force that makes one person jump up from bed, bright, cheery and ready to face the world while another guy barely lifts his head from the pillow before grumbling and pulling the covers back over head to catch another twenty winks.For Kim Waters, his new album, I Want You - ...
Jessy J: Balancing Serious Skills and Sexy Image
by Jeff Winbush
How you react to Jessy J depends a great deal upon whether you see her or hear her first.Born Jessica Spinella in Portland, Oregon, the multi-instrumentalist has carved out a sturdy reputation as a musician in the studio and onstage in bands supporting Michael Bolton, Jessica Simpson and Gloria Trevi. In 2007, she released ...
Chris Standring: Love and Paragraphs
by Jeff Winbush
Once upon a time Wes Montgomery plugged in his guitar and changed the way the world listened to jazz. Since then the guitar pick has been passed on to artists including George Benson, Earl Klugh, John Scofield and Pat Metheny, and each and every one has pushed the genre just a little bit further.With ...
Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Beyond Standard
by Jeff Winbush
There's only one problem reviewing an album by Hiromi Uehara, but it's a big one.You can quickly run out of superlatives.On Beyond Standard, her fifth album and the second one under the group name Hiromi's Sonicbloom, the always adventuresome pianist doesn't so much pay tribute to standards such as Duke Ellington's “Caravan" ...
Esperanza Spalding: Esperanza
by Jeff Winbush
For the purist who wants to know what all the excitement is about Esperanza Spalding, they can skip directly to track 11--"If That's True"--of her sophomore album Esperanza, where she works out on the acoustic bass in an all-out jam with Donald Harrison on alto saxophone and Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet. It flat-out smokes, and showcases ...
Sophie Milman: Make Someone Happy
by Jeff Winbush
Not that it ever totally went away, but the torch singer is making something of a comeback after years of neglect. Call it the Norah Jones Effect, but for some reason people are once embracing vocalists who can actually sing a song instead of emote and hit notes that make dogs start howling.Sophie Milman's ...
