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Bradley Parker-Sparrow: Shut Eye
by Jim Santella
Bradley Parker-Sparrow's music for the film Shut Eye provides the kind of emotion that enhances each scene appropriately: moody blues and seamless shadows, along with an energetic drive to support the film's characters. With vocalist Joanie Pallatto and trumpeter Bobby Lewis, he creates a dark, mysterious framework. Sparrow's piano gently caresses each melody when the scene ...
Buddy Guy: Can't Quit The Blues
by Jim Santella
Buddy Guy Can't Quit The Blues Legacy Recordings 2006 The Silvertone/Legacy release of this three-CD box set, with DVD documentary, follows blues legend Buddy Guy's career from his arrival in Chicago in 1957 up to the present day. The soulful singer/guitarist pours emotion into his performances--track after track, night after ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Live!!
by Jim Santella
This 2005 concert at Tokyo's Pit Inn (on CD and DVD) brings seven of Satoko Fujii's extended compositions into the open in living color and with open ears. She features two soloists on each piece and builds the music around them. All eyes are on the leader as she conducts them through a program that ranges ...
Mose Allison: Mose Allison Sings
by Jim Santella
There's nobody else quite like Mose Allison. Try to think of a musician who even comes close. He's so unique that we all know from the very start who we're listening to. And nobody else can fill that niche. But Allison didn't start out as a singer. He was Stan Getz's pianist in 1956-57, and he ...
John Patitucci: Line by Line
by Jim Santella
With guitarist Adam Rogers and drummer Brian Blade, John Patitucci explores jazz's modern mainstream on this program of original compositions that comes complemented by several timeless pieces from the larger pantheon. They're joined with saxophonist Chris Potter for a part of the program, while Patitucci works with a small string ensemble on two other selections. He ...
Jeff Kaiser / Tom McNalley: Zugzwang
by Jim Santella
Recorded live with no overdubs, this duo album features trumpeter Jeff Kaiser and guitarist Tom McNalley in a creative affair where noise plays a major role. The session is serious, contains plenty of motion, and comes with innumerable surprises. The album's title is a word that refers to forced movement, as in chess. How many times ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Undulation
by Jim Santella
Satoko Fujii's New York big band carries a big stick, blowing away any and all obstacles as the musicians interpret this program of her soul-stirring compositions. Everyone solos on this creative journey into the avant-garde, and Fujii's cohesive orchestra provides a stable foundation. Undulation, the band's sixth album, is tight. These players have been together long ...
Various Artists: Flags of Our Fathers
by Jim Santella
Clint Eastwood has put together a soundtrack to match the heart-grabbing film Flags of Our Fathers. With this release of music from the motion picture, we are able to relive the action and the emotion through the film's score. Eastwood composed much of the music. Lennie Niehaus conducts a studio orchestra that delivers, and ...
Junk Box: Fragment
by Jim Santella
When three creative musicians get together to think outside the box, anything can happen. Pianist Satoko Fujii calls her new trio Junk Box because of the spontaneous aspect of its performance. Part composition and part collective improvisation, her musical pieces are written out in graphic form instead of the usual notation. Composed improvisation means that direction ...
Jacques Loussier Trio: Bach: The Brandenburgs
by Jim Santella
With his trio, pianist Jacques Loussier has interpreted classical works in a straight-ahead jazz setting for over four decades. He made quite an impression in 1960 with the Play Bach Trio and has never looked back. Newer trios have developed under his direction, letting the practice of reinterpreting classical music in a jazz vein grow prolifically.
