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Wilton Felder: Let's Spend Some Time
by Dan McClenaghan
Wilton Felder, a founding member of the legendary Jazz Crusaders, presents his trademark smooth jazz sounds with a satisfyingly funky touch and laid-back soulfulness on Let's Spend Some Time.The arrangements--not always a strong element in smooth jazz outings--have a particularly fine quality, an intermingling of sax/trumpet, synth and loops. The first two cuts, “Smoke ...
Jenny Davis: It Amazes Me
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jenny Davis is a Seattle-based jazz vocalist who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. She studied with jazz vocalist Beth Winter and graduated cum laude from Cornish College, where she was awarded the prestigious Maggie Hawthorne Scholarship. While she was still a student, Davis formed a jazz trio, sang lead vocals for JIm Knapp's Big Band and ...
Jenny Davis: It Amazes Me
by Jim Santella
In a relaxed, acoustic setting with jazz standards filling the room, Seattle vocalist Jenny Davis combines her comfortable demeanor with a throwback charm that recalls those who have come before. Through her lyric interpretations and wordless scat singing, we can feel the distant memories of masters like Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Mel Tormé. ...
June 2006
by Glenn Astarita
Wittwulf Y Malik & Ge-Suk YooWhite RoomArt2006 On this album German cellist Wittwulf Y Malik and Korean vocalist Ge-Suk Yoo pursue minimalism, sparked by echoing avant tonalities, in an exhibition hall that's awash with crystalline acoustics. Yoo's vocal chants and electro-acoustic sounds offset his counterpart's nimble plucking, and this session ...
Rob Diener and Anomaly: Some Assembly Required
by Dan McClenaghan
Philadelphia-based trumpeter Rob Diener looks a bit like a New Orleans' own young Dr. John (a younger version, to be sure) on the cover of his sophomore effort, No Assembly Required. He's got the beret and the spiffy duds--but there's no Dr. John keyboard in sight. The trumpet in Diener's hand, angled up by his shoulder, ...
Ellynne Plotnick: I Walk Alone
by Michael P. Gladstone
Unlike her first album, Daydream, which was drawn from the Great American Songbook, Ellynne Plotnick's second effort contains a dozen tracks, half of which are written, or co-written by the artist. Plotnick's singing style comes mostly from Sheila Jordan; she has studied with the veteran performer, as well as Jay Clayton and Mark Murphy. Not having ...
Bruce Jackson: Don't Sleep on Your Dreams
by Dan McClenaghan
One way to give a straight-ahead piano trio set a modern edge is to cover some Wayne Shorter tunes. Everything that the onetime mid-sixties Miles Davis sideman has written seems to swirl to the edges of the mainstream without drifting out of it. Drummer Bruce Johnson opens Don't Sleep On Your Dreams with a ...
Joel Penner Sextet: The Church of the Little Black Dog
by Michael P. Gladstone
Los Angeles-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Joel Penner is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. His first album, DragonJazz (2001), was well received and resulted in Sea Breeze extending him an invitation to join the label's roster, eventually yielding this recording. Penner gets off to a fine start with a little big band sound ...
Christine Rosholt: Detour Ahead
by Dan McClenaghan
Twin Cities-based vocalist Christine Rosholt comes from a theater background, but her debut CD, Detour Ahead, shows that she can take a side road and turn it into a very appealing main thoroughfare. The set's atmosphere is elegant and a bit sassy, with Rosholt--in front of a crack band that really knows how to swing--displaying sharp ...
Christine Rosholt: Detour Ahead
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is a lot to like about vocalist Christine Rosholt, who's based in Minnesota's Twin Cities region. On her debut album, she displays a good jazz sensibility on thirteen time-tested tunes.The album begins promisingly with an easygoing “East of the Sun" and continues with the rarely heard Johnny Mercer lyrics to Woody Herman/Ralph Burns' ...
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