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Michel Portal & Richard Galliano: Concerts
by Jim Santella
The duo of Michel Portal and Richard Galliano has brought us a decade of great mainstream jazz with a unique flavor. It's the accordion that makes their performances stand apart. By taking their audience on a tour of France, Argentina, and other exotic vacation spots, they continue to thrill. Portal moves fluidly with intense emotions, as ...
Gabriela Anders: Last Tango In Rio
by Jim Santella
Hip and light, Last Tango in Rio features Gabriela Anders' whispered vocals in a swinging, contemporary affair. She multi-tracks her vocal selections to achieve a plurality in the spotlight, as her ensemble provides smooth sounds that recall the shoreline of her native Argentina. Drifting smooth jazz and oceanfront scenes go together like cookies and ...
Rebecca Martin: People Behave Like Ballads
by Jim Santella
With her session of sixteen original songs, singer Rebecca Martin sends a message. She tells stories about love and how we feel about our relationships. These are folk songs. The music that accompanies her tender lyrics also gives off a glow of folk music charm. While the message is universal, the instrumental harmony remains rooted in ...
David Weiss: The Mirror
by Jim Santella
With big band arrangements, David Weiss's sextet and octet stretch the boundaries of hard bop. Solid in their caricature, they romp and stomp with clarity of purpose. The trumpeter's original compositions build an intense dramatic spirit, while leaving much room for soloist improvisation. The leader's trumpet soars lyrically with passion. He imposes a storyline ...
Various Artists: Justin Time For Christmas Four
by Jim Santella
As the year-end holiday season brings pleasant surprises, Justin Time's annual gift package delights the jazz collector as well as the jazz novice. It's all provided in the holiday spirit. The surprises on this fourth endowment include veteran renderings alongside several unique surprises. Hank Jones offers a warm solo piano arrangement of “The Christmas ...
Clark Terry: Porgy & Bess
by Jim Santella
With the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, trumpeter Clark Terry interprets memorable selections from America's favorite jazz opera. These arias have long been a favorite of every influential jazz artist. Like Gil Evans and Miles Davis, conductor Jeff Lindberg and maestro Terry have come up with a winning formula. Using Evans' orchestral arrangements, they have recreated all the ...
John Stetch: Exponentially Monk
by Jim Santella
A solo piano album of classic Monk compositions marks a serious study of what we all like about jazz. The music swings, it has originality, and it provides the performer much room for spontaneity. John Stetch explores each one methodically and with careful consideration. He dampens the piano's strings, alters notes with the pedal, ...
Paul Reddick: Villanelle
by Jim Santella
Bluesman Paul Reddick sings about the timeless topics that have traveled with American journeymen for centuries. He and guitarist Colin Linden wrote the songs on Villanelle. Together, they paint pictures of living a working-class life on the go and scratching out one's keep day by day. Pioneers, wanderers, roaming cowboys, and migrant workers have all shared ...
Dianne Reeves: Christmas Time Is Here
by Jim Santella
Dianne Reeves puts her personal touch on each of these Christmas carols. Nothing remains ordinary. Each arrangement lets her flow with the freedom that she has always enjoyed in her performances. Reeves' voice makes each of these traditional pieces float with heartfelt joy. “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire," she sings. The scene comes ...
Herbie Hancock & V.S.O.P.: Live Under The Sky
by Jim Santella
Recorded in Tokyo at two evening concerts in July 1979, Herbie Hancock's exciting two-CD set includes the original two-LP recording in addition to previously unreleased material from the same two performances. Disc one was recorded on July 26th, while disc two was recorded on July 27th. V.S.O.P. debuted in New York in 1976 and ...
