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Panoramic: Panoramic - Rhythm Through The Unobstructed View
by Michael P. Gladstone
The opening title track on this album may make you suspect that you're in strore for Caribbean music at the height of tourist season, with lots of rhythms coming from the steel pan and associated instruments. But continued listening will reveal a diverse album full of surprises. The chief architect of this group is ...
Panoramic: Panoramic - Rhythm Through the Unobstructed View
by Dan McClenaghan
In reading about Liam Teague's performances with the Buffalo Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, St. Louis Symphony and Czech National Philharmonic, you get the feeling he's determined to take the steel pan (aka steel drum), the national instrument of his native Trinidad and Tobago, to the same lofty heights that Argentinian veteran Astor Piazzolla took the bandoneon. Both ...
August 2006
by Glenn Astarita
John Wolf BrennanPictures In A GalleryLeo Records2006 Pianist John Wolf Brennan recorded the mostly brief works on this album on location in Swiss and Russian museums. Composing on-the-fly, he took inspiration from hanging artworks by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and other masters. As a pianist, he creates an attractive hybrid ...
Aimee Allen: Dream
by Dan McClenaghan
Aimee Allen, a first-rate interpreter of familiar jazz tunes, gives an exotic texture to Dream, with the inclusion of a couple of Brazilian bossas--"Manha de Carneval/Black Orpheus" and Jobim's classic “Triste." With a crystalline delivery, great range and a fine command of nuance and inflection, Allen also covers “Les Feuilles Mortes/Autumn Leaves," with lyrics sung in ...
Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep On Your Dreams
by Michael P. Gladstone
For his first recording, drummer Bruce Jackson leads a group very much in the tradition of the classic Bill Evans trio. Jackson is from the New York/New Jersey area; he studied with classical percussionist Nick Cerrato at New Jersey City University and has played with the likes of Count Basie saxophone veteran Earle Warren, Sonny Fortune, ...
Lionel Hampton: There Will Never Be Another You
by Jack Bowers
Legendary vibraphonist Lionel Hampton auditioned Italian-born vocalist Sylvia Bennett in the early '80s, hired her on the spot to sing with his band, and subsequently recorded two albums with her. The first, Sentimental Journey, received a Grammy Award nomination, but the second, recorded in 1989 when Hamp was a frisky eighty years old, sat neglected for ...
Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep On Your Dreams
by Terrell Kent Holmes
It's refreshing when a musician who has spent dues-paying years in the shadows, closer to anonymity than fame, makes the most out of the chance to stand front and center. It was clear that drummer Bruce Jackson loved being on the bandstand when he performed at the Jazz Gallery recently. His trio treated the audience to ...
Roger Cairns: A Scot in LA
by Michael P. Gladstone
Without knowing if the title of A Scot In LA is an intentional play on words on Sting's “An Englishman in New York," I rather like this album and must credit Roger Cairns for his vocal style as well as the majority of the selected tunes. The liner information tell us that as a ...
George Johnson, Jr.: All Star Tribute
by Michael P. Gladstone
Drummer George Johnson hails from New Jersey and learned his skills under the tutelage of Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. He began playing professionally in Atlantic City at the precocious age of twelve. Following the 1997 release of his debut album, Turquoise Ocean (Challenge), this is his sophomore followup. All Star Tribute has indeed ...
Paul Carr: Just Noodlin'
by Michael P. Gladstone
Growing up in Houston, saxophonist Paul Carr was rasised in the tradition of the Texas Tenors. His local heroes included Don Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb. Carr started his musical education at Texas Southern University and completed it at Howard University in Washington, DC. He has since spent more than twenty years as a dynamic part of ...
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