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David Basse: Uptown
by C. Michael Bailey
West Coast singer Mark Winkler (Sweet Spot [Cafe Pacific Records, 2011]) heard David Basse and immediately signed him to his Cafe Pacific Records. Uptown is the first product of this partnership and, for the sake of the male jazz singer, does not come a moment too soon. There exists a huge disparity between female and male ...
The Swing Set
By Jim Caruso
Label: Yellow Sound Label
Released: 2011
Track listing: I've Got My Fingers Crossed; I Love A Violin; Manhattan; Gotta Be This Or
That; I'm So Happy; If I Only Had A Brain; I'm Shootin' High; The Doodlin'
Song; Pick Yourself Up; Flexible; Just Squeeze Me; Heart's Desire.
Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot
by C. Michael Bailey
For all of his musical bona fides, Mark Winkler is no more a jazz singer than Jim Caruso or Michael Bublé. In spite of the fact that he attracted the best of the best in his sidemen--bassist Robert Hurst, pianist Billy Childs and drummer Greg Hutchinson--for Sweet Spot, he remains something else. The point being, that ...
Jim Caruso: The Swing Set
by C. Michael Bailey
This disc is 250,000 pounds-per-square-inch cabaret music rendered with a loving and exacting hand by a coy master. Singer Jim Caruso does not take himself seriously while doing exactly that, and it is this quality that makes The Swing Set so much entertaining fun. Caruso's repertoire is not dusty standards, sanded to nothingness; instead, he chooses ...
