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On Stage at JALC: Paul Jost
by Suzanne Lorge
Paul Jost had already enjoyed a successful, decades-long career as a drummer, sideman, and leader when he decided to work solely as a jazz vocalist. Switching from player to vocalist mid-course is not a typical career path for a musician. But Jost's quick rise as a singer over the last six years--he sang at Dizzy's Club ...
Michelle Lordi at Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Victor L. Schermer
Michelle Lordi Trio Friday Nights Philadelphia Museum of Art June 8, 2018 I've always appreciated Michelle Lordi's singing through her fine recordings, but I'd never heard her in person, so I seized this opportunity to hop over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to catch her show, ...
Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without A Trace
by Jack Bowers
Grudging good wishes to New Yorkers who are able to see and hear the world-class Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra on a fairly regular basis. Everyone else must make do with the occasional recording (Without a Trace is only the second by the ten-year-old ensemble which made its debut in 2008). That's not nearly enough, of course, ...
Bucks County’s Jazz Ambassador’s Eric Mintel lands new Jazz TV Talk show!
Bucks County’s Pennsylvania’s own, pianist and composer Eric Mintel has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime and a personal mission he has led for the past 25 years as bandleader of the Eric Mintel Quartet. In January Mintel will host his own TV show called Talking Jazz with Eric Mintel. The show will be taped ...
Jim Ridl: Project 142 at the DiMenna Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Tones and Tomes in Tempo DiMenna Center New York, NY October 19, 2017 Jim Ridl is a brilliant and imaginative pianist whose music is true to his North Dakota origins while firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. Versatile and adaptive to almost any situation, he fronts his own ...
John Vanore: Stolen Moments
by Jack Bowers
Although Oliver Nelson wasn't with us very long--he died in October 1975, age forty-three--the renowned composer / arranger / saxophonist bequeathed an impressive musical legacy and touched many lives along the way. Among his many admirers is trumpeter John Vanore who first met Nelson in 1966 at an Indiana University summer camp, a meeting, Vanore writes, ...
Jim Ridl Quartet Featuring Zach Brock at Collingswood Community Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Quartet Featuring Zach Brock Collingswood Community Center Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concert Collingswood, PA March 2, 2017 The Jazz Bridge is a meritorious organization that not only sponsors outstanding concerts in and around Philadelphia, but also offers support to musicians in distress. Their recently published Philadelphia Real Book contains ...
Jim Ridl: Door in a Field V2, Songs of the Green River
By Jim Ridl
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: For Thee a Western Sky; Prairie Round; Green Meadow Waltz (v2); Red ‘47
Pickup; Door in a Field (v2); Dreams of the Everyday Housewife; Belief I
Sing / Peace Be Your Song; You Know How It Is, Too; Long Summer Road;
Remembrance / In Wheat Fields / Banks Church Anthem.
Jim Ridl: Door in a Field V2, Songs of the Green River
by Victor L. Schermer
This is pianist Jim Ridl's seventh album as a leader, and all revolve around specific motifs involving people, places, things, images, and words. For example, his debut CD, Five Minutes to Madness and Joy (Synergy Music, 1999), is based on a poem by Walt Whitman which Ridl then elaborated upon in a variety of musical expressions. ...
Jim Ridl: Opening Doors in the Big Apple
by Victor L. Schermer
Something fresh and vital is in the air when a truly creative musician is about to release a new album. Jim Ridl's Door in a Field: Volume II: Songs of the Green River, an independent release, is full of surprises and rich in musical ideas. The album is set to be released in early Fall, and ...


