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Hendrik Meurkens: New York Samba Jazz Quintet
by Jim Santella
The soulful feeling that Hendrik Meurkens puts into his jazz harmonica always brings warmth and sunshine into the room. Here, he's at home with a quintet at Cecil's Jazz Club in West Orange, New Jersey, just having a good time and keeping the fires burning all night long. His embers burn from several directions: from Brazilian ...
Riner Scivally & Isla Eckinger: Duets
by Jim Santella
Guitarist Riner Scivally and bassist Isla Eckinger have worked together all over Southern California now for over twenty years. Both have brought an exquisite melodic impression, as well as a powerful rhythmic foundation, to their various projects, sharing great jazz with a who's who of Los Angeles performers. This time out, however, it's just ...
Koonse / La Barbera / Warrington / Jenkins / Cunliffe: Snowfall: A Jazz Compass Christmas Celebration
by Jim Santella
The holidays provide a chance for everyone to sit back, relax, and enjoy something different. It's not like the rest of the year, where we're pulled and pushed this way and that. Instead, the year-end holidays give us an opportunity to set things right, and we've earned it. As the song goes, “we're gonna find out ...
The Pamela Hines Trio: Drop 2
by Jim Santella
In the straight-ahead tradition of acoustic jazz, Pamela Hines leads this lovely session of standards and originals with an appealing, refreshing charm. She takes a familiar melody, removes its standard interface, and comes up with a new approach. Familiar themes are surrounded with an exciting fanfare that includes extensive soloing from bass and drums. ...
Chris Mello: The Global Village
by Jim Santella
Chris Mello's Global Village quintet reaches halfway around the world on this debut CD to interpret his original compositions affectionately. Traces of flamenco, rhumba, bolero and cha cha cha weave through his smooth jazz performance with a natural feel. The program on this contemporary album carries modern impressions from the jazz community as well as the ...
A Telarc Christmas: Two Helpings Of Festive Fare
by Jim Santella
Two appropriately undemanding and thoroughly enjoyable albums to bring out the Christmas spirit. Christmastime Is Here is a specially conceived, orchestra and choir project. Christmas Break: Relaxing Jazz For The Holidays is a various-artists compilation of previously released material. Various Artists Christmastime Is Here Telarc 2006
John Signorello: Hey Man, Merry Christmas
by Jim Santella
John Signorello delivers this Christmas present with a swagger and a smile. It's the Frank Sinatra influence. Fronting a big band, he's in control of the room. Excellent musical arrangements and a lineup of stellar musicians give him all he needs to interpret each selection in his own way. Signorello's tenor voice comes across strong and ...
Linda Hopkins: The Living Legend Live!
by Jim Santella
Recorded earlier this year at Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood, The Living Legend Live! features Linda Hopkins in a program of old-school blues. She shakes the very foundation of LA's premier jazz club with her deep-felt delivery, telling the stories and expressing each theme with convincing authority. Featuring Michael Konik and His Tasty Band, the ...
Full Spectrum Jazz Big Band: Pursuits
by Jim Santella
Based in California's Silicon Valley, the Full Spectrum Jazz Big Band enjoys a wide variety of music, from bebop to Latin Jazz, fusion and swing, playing with feeling. Featuring talented soloists who openly share their adventures, the band has many strengths. The musicians are cohesive and they balance each other well. The band's arrangements are designed ...
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Jim Santella
This 1965 soundtrack has become ingrained in our minds through repeated leisurely holiday seasons with the family in the living room. They're great memories, brought to us by a stellar jazz piano trio that was always on top of the situation. Together, they gave us a no-nonsense setting. Each traditional Christmas song and each Guaraldi original ...
