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April Aloisio: Easy To Love
by Joel Roberts
April Aloisio shows she's more than just another singer with a pretty voice on her new Southport CD, Easy to Love. The Chicago-area vocalist has a confidence, patience and knowledge of how to get to the heart of a song that puts her in the upper tier of jazz vocalists. Aloisio is no shouter, and most ...
William Cepeda's Afrorican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond
by Joel Roberts
My Roots and Beyond is the perfect title for the debut Blue Jackal recording by William Cepeda's Afrorican Jazz, one of the most exciting and original groups on the Latin jazz scene today. As the title suggests, this album has somewhat of a historical focus, drawing on many of the traditional musical forms from Cepeda's island ...
NOJO: You Are Here
by Joel Roberts
If, like me, you live outside Canada, you may not know about NOJO--the Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra. But major talents like Joe Lovano, Kenny Wheeler, and Ray Anderson know NOJO, and have all played or recorded with the group. The 16-piece Toronto-based ensemble has won numerous Canadian jazz awards for their highly original, progressive big band sound, ...
Ken & Harry Watters: Brothers
by Joel Roberts
The jazz world has had no shortage of brother acts -- Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Nat and Cannonball, three Heaths, three Montgomerys, and three Joneses, the young Harper brothers, those Marsalis guys... just to mention a few. And now we have the Watters boys of Huntsville, Alabama, trumpeter Ken and trombonist Harry, with their new release, ...
Mark Sherman: Spiral Staircase/High Rollin'
by Joel Roberts
Vibraphonist Mark Sherman has some pretty fair credentials. The Julliard graduate spent six years working in Peggy Lee's group alongside Grady Tate, Mike Renzi, and Jay Leonhart. He's played gigs with Mel Torme, toured with Jackie & Roy and Ruth Brown, and recorded with everyone from Liza Minelli to Lena Horne to Jon Hendricks. In 1986, ...
The Joe Ascione Trio: Post No Bills
by Joel Roberts
Joe Ascione plays the drums in the aggressive, take-no-prisoners mode of Buddy Rich, which is no surprise since he once worked as Rich’s roadie. In addition to his powerhouse chops, Ascione displays excellent instincts as a leader on his debut release on the Arbors label. While his drumming is busy and LOUD, he is a supportive ...
The Kerry Strayer Septet: Jeru Blue: A Tribute to Gerry Mulligan
by Joel Roberts
In the years since Gerry Mulligan's death, a number of albums have been recorded in tribute to the great baritone saxophonist and cool jazz patriarch. Kerry Strayer's Jeru Blue, his debut release on the Palmetto label, certainly deserves consideration as one of the best. Strayer, a Kansas City baritone saxophonist and bandleader, has written eight fresh ...
Dave Ellis: In the Long Run
by Joel Roberts
Tenor saxophonist Dave Ellis's resume includes a number of diverse, high-profile jobs both inside and outside the jazz world: a tour with the post-Grateful Dead touring band, the Other Ones; a spot in Dead guitarist Bob Weir's Ratdog; and membership in the popular groove-jazz group, the Charlie Hunter Trio. But In the Long Run, his second ...
Carri Coltrane: Flamenco Sketches
by Joel Roberts
Carri Coltrane is a jazz/pop singer with a dramatic, emotional approach to the modern jazz classics she covers on Flamenco Sketches. And no, she's not related to John Coltrane. But she did, according to press clips, change her name in honor of Trane. The album is a collaboration between Coltrane and producer Gene McDaniels, a songwriter ...
Scott Hesse: Intuition
by Joel Roberts
Guitarist Scott Hesse is yet another talented, technically adept young jazz artist looking to make a name for himself on the New York scene. His debut recording, IntuitionHesse works through a nicely varied set of six originals and two standards: Joe Henderson's “the Kicker" (which first appeared on the classic Horace Silver album Song for My ...
