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Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
by Victor L. Schermer
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a “singer's singer" with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique. Vocalist J.D. Walter mentioned her as an inspirational teacher and mentor in a recent AAJ interview but, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, due to her own ...
Coincidence
By Joe Beck
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2008
Track listing: Beautiful Love; Vingt-six; I Should Care; Israel; How Deep is the Ocean; Mikey Likes It; My Funny Valentine; All Blues; My Romance; The Turnaround; Just a Waltz; Things Ain't What They Used to Be.
Remembering Whaling City Sound Guitarist Joe Beck
Whaling City Sound guitarist Joe Beck, one of the instrument's great contemporary practitioners, died last week of lung cancer at a hospice in Danbury, CT, a few days before his 63rd birthday. Throughout his career, Beck, who recorded frequently for the New Bedford-based WCS label, worked with some of the very biggest names in jazz and ...
Joe Beck & John Abercrombie: Coincidence
by Chris M. Slawecki
This duet album is a guitarist's dream. Both Joe Beck and John Abercrombie have unquestionable individual virtuosity plus experience in this format through previous tandem performances with Larry Coryell, John Scofield, Ralph Towner and similar luminaries. Together, they explore pillars from the traditional and more exploratory jazz canons including Mercer Ellington's “Things Ain't What They Used ...
Joe Beck Jazz Guitarist with Sinatra, Davis Dies
Joe Beck, 62; jazz guitarist collaborated with Sinatra, Davis, other top musicians was honored five times by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as a “Most Valuable Player." Joe Beck, a jazz guitarist who collaborated with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and James Brown, died July 22 at a Connecticut hospice after ...
Joe Beck: Trio 7 & Coincidence
by Budd Kopman
Guitarist Joe Beck's career has spanned fifty years, mostly below the below the radar since he has not spent much time as a leader, but rather has played behind many performers, inside and outside of jazz. His talent has been recognized by his receiving the Most Valuable Player Award five times by the National Academy of ...
Joe Beck & John Abercrombie: Coincidence
by John Kelman
His ECM albums may be more overtly modern and left-of-center but, based on a 2004 AAJ interview, when John Abercrombie is at home practicing, it's usually in the context of jazz standards. For those who feel such well-trodden material has little left to offer in the way of either challenge or modern interpretation, the guitarist's duet ...
Tri07
By Joe Beck
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2007
Track listing: Impressions; But Beautiful; Laura; My Romance; Alone Together; Cry Me a River; A Little Blue; Dancing to San Xavier; (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance with You; You and the Night and the Music.
Joe Beck: Tri07
by Chris M. Slawecki
Tri07 is a different type of release for Joe Beck. Which is a powerful statement, since this guitarists' guitarist has won the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) five different times, and his career, which spans five decades, includes working with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Antonio ...
Just Friends
By Joe Beck
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Love You, Just Friends, Prelude to a Kiss, Get Ready, The Girl Next Door,
Zanzibar, Softly as in a Morning sunrise, Gentle Rain, There Will Never Be Another
You, Blues for Joe Farrell
