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Don Ellis: Connection
by Jim Santella
In the early 1970s, Don Ellis reshaped his big band, dropping the three acoustic basses and substituted one Fender bass. His guitarist added echoplex effects and wah-wah sensations, taking the group away from its straight-ahead big band sound and plunging it into the electronic decade. The band got connected to pop culture. Ellis made ...
Jim Schapperoew: Soliloquy
by Jim Santella
Drummer Jim Schapperoew (pronounced SHA-per-o) has been working in jazz since the late 1960s. He attended the Berklee School of Music in Boston with a major in arranging and composition, and he's recorded with the all-star roster that we see on this two-CD collection of pieces from 1979 to 1993. Based in New England, Schapperoew works ...
Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat
by Jim Santella
Phil Woods A Life in E Flat Jazzed Media 2005 Intertwined with a one-hour documentary about the life of Phil Woods in his own words comes a musical collage of shorts from the making of his recent album, This is How I Feel About Quincy. We ...
Eddie Palmieri: Listen Here!
by Jim Santella
The big band sound of Eddie Palmieri's powerful ensemble leaves no doubt: Latin jazz has the capacity to excite, to thrill, and to interpret good music all night long. Featured solo voices include trumpeter Bryan Lynch, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, trombonist Conrad Herwig, and pianist Palmieri. His musical guests give Listen Here! an added ...
Poncho at Montreux
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by Jim Santella
Poncho Sanchez Poncho at Montreux Concord Picante 2004 Poncho Sanchez looks great. He and his band simply don't age. They rock and swing with inexhaustible energy. Sitting at the congas leading his band, and singing from the Latin jazz tradition, he kicks off this indoor concert performance at ...
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Live at MCG
by Jim Santella
You can feel the echoes of Woody Herman, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington in every song that the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra interprets. You can feel the cool swing of Henry Mancini and the hard bop syncopation of Horace Silver too. And, of course, you can feel the all-star quality that this big band brings with it ...
Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra: Not in Our Name
by Jim Santella
You can feel protest in the alto saxophone wails that Miguel Zenon delivers on “This is Not America." You can feel unity in the traditional melody of “Amazing Grace," as Charlie Haden “spreads the word" as bass soloist with Carla Bley comping on piano. You can feel the anticipation rising as a solitary trumpeter interprets “Goin' ...
Christy Baron: Bingo
by Jim Santella
They're the songs we grew up with. No, not the ones from AM or FM radio or from our earliest record, tape, and CD collections. These are the songs that we learned in our first years at school, at summer camp, and with neighborhood friends at play. Christy Baron sings each selection the way ...
Aretha Franklin: Jazz Moods
by Jim Santella
What a difference a day makes. Aretha Franklin made her first recordings at age fourteen as a gospel artist in Detroit. And in no time she was sitting on top of the world, pleasing audiences everywhere with soulful anthems like the tender reveries that have been grouped together for this moody “midnight" compilation. The ...
Marlene VerPlanck: "NOW!"
by Jim Santella
With a stellar piano trio and special guests on hand, vocalist Marlene VerPlanck shapes her 19th solo album around classic romance songs and pleasant pieces that remain somewhat underused. “Pretty Blue," by Norman Simmons and Joe Williams, paints a lovely picture of the happy feeling that we get when music fills the room and ...
