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John Alcorn: Quiet Night
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by Jim Santella
Crooning a romantic program of memorable songs by Rodgers and Hart, Toronto singer John Alcorn puts you at ease. His smooth-as-silk vocal delivery brings a positive message to the forum. You can 'hear' his smiles as Alcorn interprets each of these chestnuts with clarity and genuine passion. Not one to hold back, he urges you to ...
Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East: Live at Birdland
by Jim Santella
His featured solo on 'Laura' gives you a pretty good idea of what trombonist Scott Whitfield is all about. With a polished tone and fluid technique, he interprets the lovely ballad with care and a natural ease. His effective use of the instrument's upper register stands out as a tool for the display of his lyrical ...
John and the Sisters: John and the Sisters
by Jim Santella
It’s an odd name for an all male blues band: the Sisters Euclid. With featured guest John Dickie, the band sets out to show you that the name doesn’t have to fit the music. As long as no one else is using its name, the band is free to carve its own niche. ...
World Saxophone Quartet: Experience
by Jim Santella
The World Saxophone Quartet has never sounded better. It’s all about the music. With their eighth Justin Time album, they’ve rediscovered a source that has inspired generations. Although Jimi Hendrix passed in 1970, his music has stayed with us through thick and thin. How could we have ever survived Vietnam without his music? Two Gulf wars ...
Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra: In, Thru, And Out
by Jim Santella
The exotic title track for this big band recording opens the album with a bang. Screeching trumpets, growling trombones, and a whistling piccolo create a jungle scene that allows for the merging of contemporary orchestral music with those timbres most familiar to a big band. Individual cadenzas weave between powerful ensemble statements. Composers David Harris, Darrell ...
The Sofferman Perspective: One Stone, Two Birds
by Jim Santella
Brooke Sofferman's original music carries with it both a deep loyalty to jazz's tradition and a surging perspective of where jazz is headed. You'll find pointers at his website, which will lead you to audio samples. The title track shifts meters between 7/4, 6/4, 13/4 and 9/4. These rhythmic changes allow the band to ...
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife
by Jim Santella
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife Laurence Bergreen Books On Tape ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Velma Middleton sang with Louis Armstrong and his all-star band throughout the later years of his varied career. Her velvety-smooth voice lent itself to the trumpeter’s forlorn blues, as well as to his genuine show of ...
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
by Jim Santella
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life Laurence Bergreen 1997 ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Laurence Bergreen paints both a comprehensive and factual summary of the life of Louis Armstrong. He backs up what he says with quotes. Armstrong was a writer. He kept copious notes. The artist bought his first typewriter in 1922 and ...
Joe Kap Organ Trio: Street Noise
by Jim Santella
The familiar jazz organ trio holds a special place in history, as well as on the contemporary scene. The sound is soft-pedaled and funky, but filled with all the essential elements of good music. Joe Kap takes a melody out of its gift-wrapped package and delivers it to his audience with flowers and ribbons all around. ...
Bill Charlap Trio: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein
by Jim Santella
Capturing the wide range of expression that Leonard Bernstein put into this music, pianist Bill Charlap leads a stellar trio through various forms of emotion on Somewhere. From the album’s opening “Cool,” with its built-in, street-smart intensity, to the haphazard “Big Stuff” at a loping tempo with laid-back demeanor, the trio interprets the composer admirably.
