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The Black Big Bands: Four Swinging Big Bands from a Bygone Era
by Jim Santella
The Black Big Bands Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Billy Eckstine Storyville 2004 With these historical black & white shorts, we can feel the Swing Era in full bloom. Key artists are featured, doing much more than merely sitting in their chairs while performing. Swing fever had ...
Karrin Allyson: Wild For You
by Jim Santella
The change in Karrin Allyson’s performance is significant; but that doesn’t alter the unique vocal presence through which we’ve come to know her and to appreciate for a decade and a half. In Wild For You , we still have the expressive treatment of lyrics, the delicate aura that combines scat singing with meaningful communication, and ...
Michel Petrucciani: So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani
by Jim Santella
Michel Petrucciani left his mark on straight-ahead jazz. This compilation from previous albums demonstrates clearly that the pianist was in command when he explored the realm, both as a gentle balladeer and as a swinging musician who worked hard at his craft and connected well with a great number of like-minded artists in the jazz community. ...
Don Ellis: Live At Montreux
by Jim Santella
Recorded 27 years ago, this album from the Don Ellis library contains all the rhythmic and polyphonic excitement that you’d expect from such a pioneer in modern big band jazz. With this CD release, the original LP has been augmented by the addition of three previously unreleased tracks that came from the same Montreux performance.
Bobby Watson & Horizon: Horizon Reassembled
by Jim Santella
With this reunion, Horizon weaves a cohesive web of sultry serenades that call out softly. Rhythmically adventurous and harmonically complex, they wrap their performance in comfortable tones and pleasant melodies. Front liners Bobby Watson and Terrell Stafford keep the session amiable, as they waft delicate solos fore and aft with fluid motion. Like a ship at ...
Satoko Fujii: Sketches
by Jim Santella
At times drifting through the celestial ether, and as times roaring dramatically through the intense fires below, Satoko Fujii lets her ideas flow freely and spontaneously in real time. Improvising in its purist sense, she caresses her piano and coaxes the music out of it. By employing repetition with each turn of ideas, ...
Los Hombres Calientes: Live at the House of Blues
by Jim Santella
Los Hombres Calientes Los Hombres Calientes - Live Basin Street 2004 Con mucho calor! Recorded at the House of Blues in New Orleans, this performance features a hot band exploring Latin Jazz from both a veteran's viewpoint and from advanced studies of the genre. A performance by Los ...
David Murray and the Gwo Ka Masters: Gwotet
by Jim Santella
Don’t try to pigeonhole David Murray. He communicates in the universal language: music. Featuring guest tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, Gwotet crosses geographical boundaries to incorporate funk, blues, world beat, Afro-Cuban, and traditional “roots” in Murray’s melting pot. The title track summarizes his intended message, with Sanders and Murray soloing over an enchanting, rhythmic beat, ...
Cecil Taylor: The Owner Of The River Bank
by Jim Santella
The single piece by Cecil Taylor lasts an hour. It was recorded during the second of two concerts given to celebrate the first ten years of the Italian Instabile Orchestra. This was part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, in Southern Italy, on September 10, 2000. From the sounds of an orchestra ...
John Stein Trio: Interplay
by Jim Santella
Guitarist John Stein’s fifth release as a leader carries him through favorite standards such as “Poinciana,” “Darn That Dream,” “Django,” “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” and “Bluesette.” With bassist John Lockwood and drummer Yoron Israel, the long time Berklee College of Music faculty member achieves a superb sense of unity. Hand in hand, the threesome waltzes gently ...
