Results for "Jim Whitney"

Jim Whitney

Hello, Cruel World!

By Nick Balaban

Label: Distinguished Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Lone Ranger; Rinse Cycle; Vulnerable; Wakey Wakey; Throw Off That Jinx; Lunch With George; Death of a Buffoon; Funky Doolittle

Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

by Jerome Wilson
February 27, 2019

Guitarist Chris Jentsch's newest project is a suite that treats various periods of American history to a somewhat skeptical, alternative viewpoint. It doesn't attempt to tell a chronological story but instead hopscotches through topics like the Civil War, Westward Expansion, the Cold War and post-World War II suburban sprawl with a constant sense of unease and ...

Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

by Jack Bowers
February 8, 2019

Brooklyn-based guitarist / composer Chris Jentsch writes with clear images in mind and invites the listener to see and hear them as he does. On his sixth and latest CD, Jentsch draws on a longstanding interest in historical events and trends to describe in musical terms Topics in American History ranging from 1491 (the year before ...

Jentsch Group Quartet: Fractured Pop

by Jerome Wilson
April 20, 2017

Chris Jentsch is a guitarist who, from the evidence of this recording, enjoys splashing around in the wide pool of music between jazz and rock. His work here goes all the way from grooving hardcore jazz to ambient nature sounds with a lot of fun things going on in between those two poles. The ...

Shepley Metcalf Sings Laura Nyro At New York's Metropolitan Room

September 13, 2012

Boston’s acclaimed cabaret and jazz singer Shepley Metcalf brings her new show “Can You Surry? The Songs of Laura Nyro" to New York's Metropolitan Room for two nights in November. Known for her spirited and thoughtful delivery, Metcalf will explore the Nyro songbook from the mega hits (Stoned Soul Picnic, And When I Die, Wedding Bell ...