Home » Search Center » Results: Jim Santella
Results for "Jim Santella"
Eddie Turner: Rise
by Jim Santella
Blues/rock singer/guitarist Eddie Turner makes his statements loud and clear. A powerful backbeat, throbbing bass pulse and loud drums back up his lead guitar and emotional vocals with a solid wall of sound. His passionate blues message bores its way into Turner's audience without hesitation. With his cover of Jimi Hendrix's “The Wind Cries ...
Shelly Berg at Catalina's
by Jim Santella
Shelly Berg Trio Catalina Bar & Grill Hollywood, California January 20, 2005 Celebrating the release of Blackbird , his new CD on the Concord label, Shelly Berg brought his trio to Catalina's on a Thursday night for an intimate evening among friends and fans. With bassist Chuck Berghofer and drummer ...
Kermit Ruffins: Kermit Ruffins
by Jim Santella
Featuring six tracks from Kermit Ruffins' out-of-print Justice releases, this compilation comes just in time for Mardi Gras. It's a celebration of trad jazz and everything else that has made New Orleans so special. All that's missing is the crawdads and gumbo. That, we'll have to find on our own. Ruffins turned forty last ...
Jason Moran: Same Mother
by Jim Santella
Based on a film score that he wrote, Jason Moran introduces blues from the Deep South on Same Mother. The film, Five Short Breaths, depicts the raw outlook of life in a Mississippi prison during the 1940s. Thus, with his sixth Blue Note release, he's able to prove to the world once and for all that ...
Various Artists: New Orleans
by Jim Santella
Marching through the streets in celebration usually brings whole communities together. Perfect strangers feel as if they know each other. It happens all over the world. But in New Orleans, it's become a part of the local culture. Celebrations can take place any time, since the Crescent City is active all year 'round. Released ...
Roger Kellaway: I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook
by Jim Santella
Coinciding with the release of Beyond the Sea, a film biography of singer Bobby Darin, I Was There features songs that the pianist and singer performed together when Kellaway was Bobby Darin's musical director in 1967-68. Kellaway, who worked extensively with actor Kevin Spacey to prepare him for his role as Darin in the ...
Shelly Berg: Blackbird
by Jim Santella
This program of sensual ballads gives the Shelly Berg Trio plenty of room to express deep feelings about the music and about how jazz has given each member a long and fruitful career doing what he loves. Each solos frequently and passionately, but with subdued emphasis. A ballad caress needn't be amplified or swung hard. The ...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: No Boundaries
by Jim Santella
Accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra, Ladysmith Black Mambazo combines classical European pieces with the traditional music of their South African homeland on one program. The well-known vocal ensemble finds that both areas of music fit together well when they're doing the interpreting. “Amazing Grace" is presented in English. The arrangement contains a lustrous ...
A Tribute to Gerry Mulligan at the Jazz Bakery
by Jim Santella
The Baritone Saxophone Band The Jazz Bakery Los Angeles, California January 9, 2005 Three veteran baritone saxophonists playing harmony on classic Gerry Mulligan pieces at the Jazz Bakery memorialized the notable bebop pioneer and cool school evangelist better than anyone can. While Ronnie Cuber, Howard Johnson and Gary Smulyan ...
Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson
by Jim Santella
Like the motions of a boxer, Miles Davis' music for this tribute contains much repetition in the motion and rhythm of his sextet. His open trumpet drove the point home with force. Electric guitar and electric bass were new to Davis' music in 1970. Ironically, he was honoring a traditional fighter who loved traditional ...
