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P.J. Perry Quartet: Alto Gusto
by Jack Bowers
Scanning an album that bears the name Alto Gusto, a prospective listener may be forgiven for assuming that it consists of a series of upbeat themes designed to cause toes to tap, fingers to snap and the heart rate to soar. And once it becomes clear that that is not what Canadian alto saxophonist P.J. Perry's ...
The Art of the Ballad
By Jon Mayer
Label: Udj
Released: 2014
Track listing: Prelude to a Kiss; My Foolish Heart; Round Midnight; Willow Weep for Me; My Romance; Never Never Land; My One and Only Love; Don't Misunderstand; Young and Foolish; When I Fall in Lover; Come Rain or Come Shine; For All We Know.
Jon Mayer: The Art of the Ballad
by C. Michael Bailey
Jon Mayer not John Mayer. This particular Mayer is a jazz pianist currently living on the West Coast who has been plying his Jazz trade in one form or another since the mid-1950s. Early on, Mayer played on two notable sessions: alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957) and on the John Coltrane sessions recorded ...
Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler: West Coast Cool
by C. Michael Bailey
In 2010, jazz vocal specialists Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkler began a collaboration that resulted in a live show entitled West Coast Cool that they presented at different venues on the West Coast and beyond. Summit Records commits this show to digital with an album of the same title that is something special. While programming a ...
Jackie Ryan: Listen Here
by C. Michael Bailey
There exists an intersection point in a vocal recording where four elements coalesce in excellence to produce a superb recording: the vocal, instrumental, material and sonic. Singer Jackie Ryan's Listen Here exists on this very point. AAJ critic Dan Bilawsky addressed the first two elements in his thoughtful review of Listen Here, calling Ryan, “a force ...
Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's “Big Band Olympics," which ...
Nightscape
By Jon Mayer
Label: Reservoir Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: The Touch of Your Lips; Blues Junction; Day By Day; Nightscape; Rapture: Room 608;
Dancing in the Dark; Bohemia After Dark; Theme For Ernie: Once I Loved; So in Love.
Best Of Love Songs
By Jackie Ryan
Label: OpenArt Productions
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1) When I Grow Too Old To Dream
2) You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3) While We're Young
4) Make It Last
5) Let There Be Love
6) Luiza
7) This Heart Of Mine
8) Once In Everyone's Life
9) Bésame Mucho
10) Season's Of The Heart
11) Serenade In Blue
12) Now Baby or Never
13) Historia De Un Amor
14) The Very Thought Of You
15) You Are There
Jon Mayer: Nightscape
by Ken Dryden
Jon Mayer was working professionally as a jazz pianist as a teen back in the '50s, while attending the Manhattan School of Music. As well as working as a sideman with Tony Scott, Kenny Dorham, Chet Baker, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan and others, along with taking part in record dates with John Coltrane ...
Nightscape
By Jon Mayer
Label: Reservoir Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Touch of Your Lips; Blues Junction; Day by Day; Nightscape; Rapture; Room 608; Dancing
in the Dark; Bohemia After Dark; Theme for Ernie; Once I Loved; So in Love.
