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Bireli Lagrene
by Jim Santella
Bireli Lagrene Djangologyand To Bi or Not to Bi Dreyfus Records 2007 Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project Just the Way You Are Dreyfus Records 2007 Sara Lazarus with Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project
Hayes Greenfield: Music for a Green Planet
by Jim Santella
Celebrating Earth Day all year round, saxophonist Hayes Greenfield combines tasteful jazz with an environmental message through fifteen original songs and more than forty cast members. It's a welcome thought: save the world, recycle, car pool, conserve power, seek alternate energy sources and make responsible behavior a part of the daily routine. He delivers this bright ...
Straight Ahead: Jon Mayer & Grant Stewart
by Jim Santella
Jon Mayer So Many Stars Reservoir Music 2007 Grant Stewart Young at Heart Sharp Nine Records 2008 The small, acoustic jazz combo can make a night out as memorable ...
Marcus Belgrave & Michele Ramo: The Song is You
by Jim Santella
Like the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force's flying Thunderbirds, this ensemble has a “hole" in it where Lawrence G. Williams would comfortably fit his drum set into motion. Sadly, Williams has passed on. As a duo tribute to their friend by trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and guitarist Michéle Ramo, The ...
Trumpet and Piano Jazz: Irvin Mayfield/Ellis Marsalis & Umberto Petrin/Jean-Luc Cappozzo
by Jim Santella
Irvin Mayfield & Ellis Marsalis Love Songs, Ballads and Standards Basin Street Records 2008 Umberto Petrin & Jean-Luc Cappozzo Law Years Soul Note 2008 Two creative trumpet and piano ...
Floratone: Floratone
by Jim Santella
Electronics and special effects color Floratone's eponymous debut liberally; however, the core focus of this modern quartet remains tied to jazz tradition. Along with producers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain have formed Floratone in the image of progressive jazz of the 21st century. They've collaborated to blend elements of ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Jim Santella
Founded in 2003, Carla Bley's quartet The Lost Chords interprets her music with emotional depth and superior musicianship. By adding guest trumpeter Paolo Fresu for this session, she has stumbled on a formula that emphasizes camaraderie and spirit-sharing. The five artists fuse well together through blues, ballads, lyrical arias and the occasional ruckus. Far from predictable, ...
The Free Jazz Heptakaidectet: An Immusical Journey
by Jim Santella
This mighty band of seventeen creative improvisers knows what kind of collective sound it wants and doesn't much care who objects. From start to finish, you get over 71 uninterrupted minutes of shrook, zoom-boom, harrumph, wankle-wankle, choosh, sizzle-bam, glassassassinki, doink, land-o-mercy all-sakes-alive, raise-the-roof in hell-bent animation. Nonstop, The Free Jazz Heptakaidectet breathes up your nose with ...
The Willie Williams Trio: Comet Ride
by Jim Santella
To this program of eight original compositions, saxophonist Willie Williams adds a medley of two tunes each by Eddie Harris and Jimmy Heath as well as a closing romp on the ever-faithful “Caravan." His combination of fresh originals and familiar standards gives this trio album its vitality, demonstrating a love for past generations of the jazz ...
Salim Washington: Live at St. Nick's
by Jim Santella
Long a Friday night fixture at St. Nick's Pub in New York's Sugar Hill section, Salim Washington's Harlem Arts Ensemble--the leader on tenor, flute and oboe, pianist Donald Smith, violist Melani Dyer, bassist Aaron James, drummer Mark Johnson and trombonist Ku-Umba Frank Lacy, who also plays a mean flugelhorn--shares fresh ideas with an aware audience on ...
