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Pete Di Losa & Khristina Joy: This Time
by Jim Santella
Trumpeter Pete Di Losa and singer Khristina Joy lead a session of straight-ahead standards with a nod to modern big band sounds and comfortable bebop. Di Losa's wide open trumpet tone and Joy's expressive vocal articulation combine with the ensemble's trombone, saxophones, guitar, piano, bass, and drums to offer a big sound with ample doses of ...
Bob Bangerter: Playin' The Right Thing
by Jim Santella
Guitarist Bob Bangerter plays smooth jazz with accompaniment from keyboardist George Tavoularis, several horns, and a rhythm team. Like a mid-winter vacation in Hawaii, the session offers relaxed breezes and softly floating melodies. A brief introspective by Dr. Lonnie Smith titled “Smith Street" features the organist's voice to the accompaniment of an acoustic blues guitar. Dr. ...
Bozar: Exposition
by Jim Santella
Bozar is guitarist Pierre Sainte-Marie, drummer Denis Durand, saxophonist Yves Adam, trumpeter Ivanhoe Jolicoeur, and trombonist Christopher B.J. Smith. At times fiery and intense, and at other times serene, the creative improvised music they've performed since 1984 can captivate one's imagination. This, their first album, was recorded at different performances with different personnel lineups between 1986 ...
Amadee Castenell: Amadee
by Jim Santella
Tenor saxophonist Amadee Castenell plays smooth jazz with support from electric bass & guitar, keyboards & synths, and a drummer's back beat rhythms. Melodic, with acoustic piano fills and guitar doubling, Castenell's tenor takes center stage throughout the session. The leader has recorded with Lee Dorsey, The Neville Brothers, Dr. John, and Johnny Adams; her reverence ...
Grace Darling: Imaginary Lover
by Jim Santella
New Orleans supplies the rhythms, Al Kooper supplies the title track, and Grace Darling supplies the pop vocals. Loose and expressive, the singer works with a strong band and capable male backup vocalists. Darling adds her lucid tenor saxophone on seven tracks for color and variety. In her hands, the instrument sings out clear and strong, ...
Ken Peplowski: A Good Reed
by Jim Santella
Featuring the seventeen-minute “Homage Concerto For Clarinet And Jazz Orchestra" with Loren Schoenberg's big band backing clarinetist Ken Peplowski, this session is well-balanced, with four numbers by the leader's small group and four with the large ensemble. Peplowski plays clarinet on three tracks; tenor saxophone on the other four. His experience with the Tommy Dorsey ghost ...
Sean Driscoll: Islands
by Jim Santella
The Sean Driscoll Group plays contemporary jazz with a myriad of sounds that are familiar to us all: the snappy electric bass in the background, the melodic saxophone that weaves its tale up front, the evenly-keeled piano, the natural timbre of congas, the coloring pulse of the drummer, the keyboard that can sound like different instruments, ...
Toots Thielemans: Chez Toots
by Jim Santella
The harmonica can send a lyrical message as well as any singer can, if it's played right. Toots Thielemans has been sending out the right message for over 40 years. But it's his earliest years, growing up in his native Belgium, that the harmonica master reflects upon by constructing this album of torch songs with French ...
Chick Corea & Origin: Origin
by Jim Santella
Recorded live at the Blue Note, Chick Corea's new working unit, Origin, plays straight-ahead acoustic modern mainstream jazz. The band includes trombonist Steve Davis, saxophonists Bob Sheppard and Steve Wilson, acoustic bassist Avishai Cohen, and drummer Adam Cruz. All tracks except “It Could Happen To You" are Corea's compositions. Since it's a live session and since ...
Clayton Englar & Equinox: Last World
by Jim Santella
Equinox is a modern mainstream sextet comprised of saxophonist Clayton Englar, vibraphonist Pete Chauvette, trombonist Joe Jackson, bassist Wade Matthews, drummer Roderick Johnson, and percussionist Alfredo Mojica. The electric bass emits a fuzzy bottom, yet it's dependable and on the mark. Similarly, both drummer and percussionist work to maintain a rhythmic foundation that balances the ensemble's ...
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