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Philadelphia Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
Philadelphia Jazz Suzanne Cloud and Diane Turner 127 pages ISBN 978-1-4671-0784-6 Images of America Arcadia Publishing 2022 Philadelphia longs to be known as a jazz town, a city distinguished by its major contribution to the jazz legacy. There is a good ...
News
By Tim Brey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Commodification; News; Here or There; There's a Lull in my Life; Ask Me Later; Pensativa;
There Stands the Glass; Dreamsville
Joey DeFrancesco: From Musical Prodigy to Jazz Icon
by Victor L. Schermer
Joey DeFrancesco is a true master of the jazz organ, the one others look up to as the standard bearer, as was his inspirational hero, Jimmy Smith. Arguably, he could be dubbed the Mozart of the jazz organ, since like Mozart, he seemed to have been born with all the music already in him. By four, ...
Love Letter
By Mike Lorenz
Label: Recent Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Linger; Mirage; To Be Free (interlude); I Just Wasn't Made For These Times; Cold Spell; Easy; Tribute
Valley; To Be Free; Goody Bag; Mo(u)rning.
The Things We Did Last Summer
By Tim Brey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Curtain Call; Hindsight; Strange Meadowlark/On a Misty Night; For Heaven's Sake; The
Things We Did Last Summer; My Bells/Central Park West; Holy Land; A Ship Without a Sail;
The Waiting Game; The Things We Did Last Summer (Solo)
The Witherbees: Love Letter
by Jerome Wilson
The Witherbees are a band from Philadelphia that mix folk, country, rock and jazz together into a stew of dreamy music that flows together easily into a distinctive sound. Instrumental tracks like “Mirage," “Cold Spell" and “Tribute Valley" are the most overtly jazzy ones on their album. On these, Mike Lorenz's guitar and Jacqui ...
Norman David: Forty-Year Wizard of The Eleventet
by Victor L. Schermer
A few years ago, a musician friend suggested I go hear a band that was playing at a place in Bella Vista, Philadelphia, a neighborhood with a significant jazz history (violinist Joe Venuti and guitarist Eddie Lang lived there and are honored with several plaques and a mural) -but not much current music to speak of. ...
Linger
Album: Love Letter
By Mike Lorenz
Label: Recent Music
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:41
Elliot Bild & the Zone: ISMS
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A textural and improvisational tour de force from Elliot Bild and the Zone, ISMS, recorded live, consists of ten selections—nine of which are Bild originals—and offers up an evening of intelligent and enlightening jazz. “Army of Aliens (Your Thoughts)" opens the set and is a classic hard-bop burner with Bild and saxophonist Hudson-Casanova lifting ...
Susie Meissner: I Wish I Knew
by Jack Bowers
I wish I knew why the talented Philadelphia-based singer Susie Meissner chose to open her salute to the Great American Songbook with the only tune on the album that doesn't really qualify: Curtis Lewis' “The Great City." It's not a bad song but Cole Porter or Johnny Mandel it ain't. On the bright side, Meissner recovers ...
