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Omer Avital Group: Room to Grow
by Jim Santella
Recorded 1997 at Smalls in New York, this session maintains the growth that was spawned by the late John Coltrane thirty to forty years earlier. Along with the traditional elements that made their way into jazz from European classical music, Omer Avital's ensembles add Middle Eastern ties that broaden the harmonic horizon and create fresh new ...
Various Artists: One More: The Summary: Music Of Thad Jones, Vol. 2
by Jim Santella
This 2005 all-star session features contemporaries of trumpeter/bandleader/composer Thad Jones (1923-86) in a program that includes many of his significant compositions. Music of Thad Jones, Vol. 2 honors his memory through straight-ahead interpretations that swing enthusiastically. The Jones brothers--pianist Hank, trumpeter Thad and drummer Elvin--have all brought greatness to the jazz world through their ...
Times 4: Relations
by Jim Santella
Saxophonist Lincoln Adler leads this contemporary jazz quartet from San Francisco in a program of originals that blow smoke all around the room. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and this band has plenty of it to share. Adler has always been able to express himself on tenor and alto with a fluid charm that ...
Jimmy Weinstein: This Ocean
by Jim Santella
Recorded on April 11, 2005 in New York, this quartet session brings four creative artists together for a program of impressions relating to the never-ending majesty of our Earth's oceans. Flowing seamlessly together with an intuitive cohesiveness, the musicians travel the Seven Seas to find encounters with a wide array of natural oceanic characteristics. ...
Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There
by Jim Santella
Satoko Fujii creates tone poems on When We Were There, which her quartet uses as stepping stones to enter the world of improvised jazz. Each member, an experienced veteran, turns it loose with unexpected surprises at every corner. At the piano, Fujii romps with quasi-rhythms and mood-changing harmonies. The dissonance and consonance of her pieces overlap, ...
Gato Libre: Nomad
by Jim Santella
Natsuki Tamura's lyrical and subdued Gato Libre group wanders like a nomad through various parts of the world, capturing the essence of folk music and interpreting it through a jazz frame of reference. It's beautiful, acoustic music, and it's evidence of the trumpeter's creative power. This is impressionism at its best. We can follow ...
Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night
by Jim Santella
This collection of music school composition projects says a lot about the student and his university. When finishing his BM in Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Samson Trinh held a CD release party at his senior recital. He hired several musicians (listed below) and made this eclectic recording, which features compositions and arrangements from his ...
Liam Sillery: On the Fly
by Jim Santella
It's fitting that trumpeter Liam Sillery chose to close this program with Lee Morgan's “Ceora, since the parallels drawn between the two stand out so distinctly. He steers this New York/Los Angeles quintet through his crisp and clean sophomore recording project with all elements in place. Swing, groove, cohesiveness, technical mastery and improvisation show up from ...
Mike Frost Project: Comin
by Jim Santella
This stellar Chicago organ combo is a swinging sextet from the straight-ahead tradition. Bassist Mark Berls guests on four numbers, giving the Mike Frost Project an even bigger sound. Brothers Mike and Steve Frost have had a lifetime to develop the cohesive sound that they display here. However, it's been a lot more effort than that ...
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: The Scenic Route
by Jim Santella
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts swings in a collective manner with a comfortable fit that speaks from the jazz tradition, while driving with soulful authority. Trumpeter Terell Stafford gives Wilson an eloquent lyrical voice that he backs with propulsive rhythms. Pianist and organist Gary Versace gives this powerful quartet its various moods, which bassist Dennis Irwin ...
