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Lionel Loueke: Karibu
by Joel Roberts
Guitarist/singer Lionel Loueke's remarkable odyssey from the West African nation of Benin to the apex of the jazz world is quickly becoming the stuff of legend. After hearing a George Benson CD as a teenager, Loueke became enamored with American jazz and began traversing the globe to further his musical education, first in the neighboring Ivory ...
John Ellis and Double-Wide: Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
by Joel Roberts
That's the low roar of a sousaphone--courtesy of New Orleans' Matt Perrine--you hear on the opening notes of “All Up in the Aisles," the first tune on Brooklyn-based saxophonist John Ellis' soulful Dance Like There's No Tomorrow. A North Carolina preacher's son who spent his formative musical years in the Crescent City before moving up north, ...
Lee Morgan: Vols. 2 and 3
by Joel Roberts
Lee Morgan was just 18 when he led these exemplary hard bop dates for Blue Note in the winter of 1956 and spring of 1957. But, as these newly remastered Rudy Van Gelder editions attest, the Philadelphia-born trumpet phenom was mature far beyond his years, with a hard-driving, take-no-prisoners style that gained the attention of band ...
Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival: Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All Stars
by Joel Roberts
For its 50th anniversary last summer, the Monterey Jazz Festival assembled a multi-generational allstar group--including tenor sax legend James Moody, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, pianist and musical director Benny Green, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott and singer Nnenna Freelon--to reflect the festival's long and diverse musical history. The live recording of the group's performance exhibits some ...
Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart
by Joel Roberts
Listeners have come to expect several things from the trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette in the 25 years that the group's been engaged in its extended modernist exploration of the Great American Songbook: remarkable musicianship, extreme seriousness and a fairly predictable repertoire. That's what makes the trio's 18th release ...
Frank London: A Night in the Old Marketplace & Gachupin
by Joel Roberts
Frank London A Night in the Old Marketplace Soundbrush 2007 Gachupin Gachupin Self Released 2007 Nearly a decade in the making, A Night in the Old Marketplace ...
Bill McHenry: Roses
by Joel Roberts
Bill McHenry's daring approach to the tenor saxophone has earned him strong critical acclaim in recent years, as well as choice gigs like headlining the Village Vanguard in New York City. While he's in the line of left-of-center tenor sax predecessors like Dewey Redman, the 35 year-old McHenry has developed a unique sound ...
Terell Stafford and Alvin Queen
by Joel Roberts
Terell Stafford Quintet Taking Chances - Live At The Dakota Max Jazz 2007 If you're looking for a modern twist on classic, Blue Note-style hard bop, look no further than trumpeter Terell Stafford. A former Bobby Watson, Benny Golson and McCoy Tyner sideman, and current member of the ...
Jimmy Greene: Gifts and Givers
by Joel Roberts
It's probably time to cast aside labels like “up-and-coming" and “rising star" when describing Jimmy Greene. As Gifts and Givers makes clear, the Connecticut-born tenor saxophonist has definitely arrived. An inventive, technically-advanced mainstreamer, Greene made his mark in the bands of Horace Silver, Tom Harrell and Harry Connick Jr., as well as with ...
Paquito D'Rivera Quntet?: Funk Tango
by Joel Roberts
The question mark at the end of the group's name above isn't a mistake. It's Paquito D'Rivera's way of signaling that listeners shouldn't expect to hear just a traditional jazz quintet on his consistently excellent and continually surprising Funk Tango. Instead, the Cuban-born multi-instrumentalist leads an ever-shifting international ensemble that adds and subtracts members based on ...
