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Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe: Kobe Yee!!
by Jim Santella
Another in a fine series of big band albums that pianist Satoko Fujii has released, Kobe Yee!! features the ensemble that she works with when she's in town. Kobe, Japan, that is. This fifteen-piece band interprets her music with a fierce attitude, as each selection comes laden with the force of collective power. On ...
Jazz Mozart: John di Martino & Uri Caine
by Jim Santella
John di Martino's Romantic Jazz Trio Jazz Mozart Venus Records 2007 Uri Caine Ensemble Plays Mozart Winter & Winter 2007 Contained in Mozart's body of work is lyrical romance, ...
Guitars: Michael Musillami, Threedom & Tom Guarna
by Jim Santella
Michael Musillami's Dialect Fragile Forms Playscape Recordings 2007 Threedom Clairvoyant Avenue Bella Firenze Musica 2007 Tom Guarna Out from the Underground SteepleChase 2007
Joel Frahm: We Used to Dance
by Jim Santella
Working with pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Victor Lewis on a straight-ahead jazz session would be a real treat for anyone. It turns out to be especially fruitful for tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, who delivers this program of standards and originals with an artist's delicate touch. The proud owner of a rich, luxurious ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by Jim Santella
With this quartet's third album, John Abercrombie interprets a program of eight original compositions plus “Round Trip by Ornette Coleman and “Epilogue by pianist Bill Evans. The choices show where this modern mainstream guitarist comes from, as the quartet's session pulls from jazz's creative tradition: rich in harmonic surprises and yet free and unique. ...
Carol Williams: I Can Live With That
by Jim Santella
Singer/songwriter Carol Williams gets into the nitty-gritty of our lives. Her music and lyrics are designed to get you thinking. And it works. Her folk songs take what we do with our daily routines and examine the quality inherent in that. She colors her songs with keyboards, flute and tenor saxophone as a one-woman band that ...
Jesse Selengut & NOIR: This is Jazz Noir
by Jim Santella
Darkness. Miles Davis espoused it. Older movies represented it. Science Fiction amplifies it. Trumpeter Jesse Selengut & NOIR use reverb, synths, samples and contemporary mixing techniques to create a fascinating situation. They've latched onto the electronic adventures of trumpeter Davis with a fanatic desire. With a program of modern mainstream ...
Mary Ann Douglas: Unfinished Business
by Jim Santella
A hidden treasure from southern California, jazz singer Mary Ann Douglas writes her own songs and lyrics. Each of her four albums, released over the past ten years, proves unique in that manner. Original material means pleasant surprises. In all, Douglas' four albums contain sixty-four songs that are fascinating for their comfortable allure and for the ...
Etta Jones: Don't Go to Strangers
by Jim Santella
"Don't Go to Strangers was Etta Jones' trademark song. She could make any jazz standard come alive, though, and she did on this 1960 Prestige album with a line-up of jazz all-stars. Together, band and vocalist tell the stories with a genuine spirit. The sound is superb. Jones and the band are in sync, and the ...
Jimmy Hall & The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Collective: Build Your Own Fire
by Jim Santella
This down-to-earth blues album by Jimmy Hall and The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Collective comes as a tribute to an unsung member of the southern blues community. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Eddie Hinton (1944-1995) was one of those guys who held genius in the palm of his hand but couldn't handle it in the end. We've known other jazz and ...
