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Dead Ringer: Atomic Cocktail
by Jim Santella
Titled after Slim Gaillard’s “Atomic Cocktail," Dead Ringer’s album speaks to the swing revival as well as to mainstream jazz lovers. Kathleen Frasca delivers familiar stories and charms the listener with her natural approach and fresh articulate vocal style. Providing music for relaxation, the singer entertains with overdubs, key changes, some instrumental improvisation, occasional sound effects, ...
David S. Ware: Go See The World
by Jim Santella
From John Coltrane’s late period of meditations and high-energy improvisation, David S. Ware, 49, has a manner that can either irritate or impress the listener because of his expressed passion and intensity. The tenor saxophonist was influenced by Coltrane, studied with Sonny Rollins, attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, worked with Cecil Taylor and later, ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Coming Home Jamaica
by Jim Santella
With the front and back covers of Down Beat magazine paying respects to the current swing revival, and record stores everywhere reminding us that generations do have common interests, it’s no surprise that “Grape Escape" opens the album with walking bass, drums on two and four, and horns swinging together. Since Joseph Jarman left the Art ...
Cecil Taylor Unit & Roswell Rudd Sextet: Mixed
by Jim Santella
“Everywhere," “Yankee No-How," “Respects," and “Satan’s Dance" constitute a reissue of Impulse! [AS-9126], Everywhere, originally recorded July 8, 1966 in New York by the Roswell Rudd Sextet. “Bulbs," “Pots," and “Mixed" were originally recorded October 10, 1961 in New York by the Cecil Taylor Unit, and those tracks appeared alongside several unrelated tracks by members of ...
Carmen Lundy: Old Devil Moon
by Jim Santella
Primarily an acoustic session, Carmen Lundy’s latest album presents her clear, expressive alto voice in the company of complementary soloists Frank Foster, Randy Brecker and Bob Mintzer. With Billy Childs and Santi DeBriano backing her on most tracks, the jazz singer weaves through lush ballads, a few original tunes, several rhythmic adventures, and intricate blues-based stories. ...
Kelley Johnson: Make Someone Happy
by Jim Santella
Singer Kelley Johnson has a relaxed manner and a brassy aura that speaks clearly to the listener who wants to appreciate lyrics and become immersed in a song’s attitude. Searingly effective on slow, deliberate, dramatic ballads, such as “I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do" and “Moment to Moment," the singer points every phrase and shapes ...
Sherri Roberts: Dreamsville
by Jim Santella
Singer Sherri Roberts has a pleasant, expressive alto voice, scat-sings and interprets lyrics, uses a vibrato somewhat wider than most, and fades from the limelight at will. The singer, who grew up in Atlanta, earned a degree in theater, and moved to San Francisco, names influences such as Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, and Helen Merrill. Roberts ...
Joe Negri: Afternoon In Rio
by Jim Santella
While serving for more than twenty years as a musical director for television station WTAE in Pittsburgh, guitarist Joe Negri has written and performed for a variety of situations. He's equally at home with the jazz standard as he is with this collection of Brazilian music. The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, having sponsored live jazz in Pittsburgh ...
Misako Kano: Breakthrew
by Jim Santella
Pianist Misako Kano grew up in Japan and studied at several universities before earning her Master’s degree in Jazz Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music in 1990. She led this session in New York City in early 1996, and the quartet’s recording was released in Japan. Jazz Focus released the session in 1998 shortly after ...
Dave Mac Nab: Dave Mac Nab
by Jim Santella
Now living in the San Francisco Bay area, guitarist Dave Mac Nab has a busy professional career that includes a handful of recordings as leader as well as work with the acid jazz band Funkbone, blues man Charlie Musselwhite, Chuck Sher’s Latin ensemble, and young lion organist Larry Goldings. Mac Nab, who composed each of the ...
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