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Eric Alexander: Song of No Regrets
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, who has been wielding as impressive a tenor saxophone as anyone on the scene for more than two decades, returns to the studio for what seems the umpteenth time with an abundant stockpile of point-blank pleasures on Song of No Regrets, an essentially Latin-grooved session that leaves room on the first two numbers for ...
Frode Kjekstad: A Piece of the Apple
by Geno Thackara
There's no telling just when or why a certain place will sink its hooks into you. However active Frode Kjekstad remains in his native Norway, he's clearly left his heart in New York City. The bustling personality of the metropolis can be felt all over his bop-and-blues compositions and fleet fretwork. With a classy full-bodied tone ...
Brandi Disterheft: Blue Canvas
by Dan Bilawsky
A canvas is often viewed as a neutral starting point, but it needn't be so. Even a so-called “blank" space can be suffused with certain color(s) before brushstrokes are ever applied, as Brandi Disterheft reminds us. Her fourth album is a trio date painted atop, around, over, and with the color blue. It's a work that ...
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s career also included mainstay work with Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Kai Winding, Wes Montgomery, Duke Pearson, Mose Allison, Oliver Nelson, and ...
Eric Alexander: Second Impression
by Jack Bowers
Not only has tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander recorded more than thirty-five albums as a leader since arriving in New York City some twenty years ago, he has appeared on almost as many others as a sideman. He's such an earnest blue-collar worker that one almost expects him to carry his saxophone in a lunch pail instead ...
Mike LeDonne Groover Quartet: That Feelin'
by Jack Bowers
Mike LeDonne's splendid Groover Quartet has earned a cozy groove for itself, somewhere between fresh from the oven and the halcyon days of organ combos led by Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, Jimmy McGriff, Groove Holmes, Shirley Scott, Don Patterson and others. While embracing their essential groundwork on the one hand, LeDonne moves steadily forward with the ...
One for All: The Third Decade
by C. Andrew Hovan
Hard to believe it will be twenty years ago next year that the hard bop ensemble One For All debuted with Too Soon To Tell on the fledgling Sharp Nine label. Formed as a group that regularly played together at an uptown Broadway club called Augie's, each member was just at the start of their own ...
Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in 1997 when Introducing Jim Rotondi announced that a major new trumpeter star was on the ascent, few could have predicted how important and prolific Rotondi would become to the mainstream landscape. A foremost stylist in the lineage of Freddie Hubbard and Wood Shaw, Rotondi quickly proved he had absorbed the legacy, only to jettison ...
Are You Sirius?
Label: In Jazz We Trust Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: 1. Twenty (V. Pontrandolfo)
2. You (H. Adamson - W. Donaldson)
3. Touched (V. Pontrandolfo)
4. Tongue Out (V. Pontrandolfo)
5. Recado Bossa Nova (D. Ferreira - L. Antonio)
6. Make Believe (J. Kern - O. Hammerstein II)
7. Are You Sirius? (V. Pontrandolfo)
8. Rakin' & Scrapin' (H. Mabern)
9. Tune Up (E. Vinson)
I Remember Cedar
Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Simple Pleasure; Martha's Prize; Clockwise; Dear Ruth; Turquoise
Twice; Holy Land; Cedar's Blues; Fiesta Espanol; Hindsight; Over The
Rainbow.
