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Virginia Mayhew: A Simple Thank You
by Ken Dryden
Virginia Mayhew has been a part of the New York City jazz scene since 1987 when the San Francisco native enrolled in the New School's Jazz Performance program and was awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship. The tenor saxophonist played with a variety of bandleaders including Earl “Fatha" Hines, Al Grey, Junior Mance, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Joe ...
Solo Piano: Larry Ham, Louis Mazetier, Marcos Jimenez & Bert van den Brink
by Ken Dryden
Larry Ham Just You, Just Me Arbors 2008 Louis Mazetier Tributes, Portraits and Other Stories (Arbors Piano Series, Vol. 18) Arbors 2008 Marcos Jimenez I Thought About You ...
Jim Snidero: Tippin'
by Ken Dryden
Since graduating from the University of North Texas in 1981, Jim Snidero has worked for many different bandleaders, including Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Wess, Brian Lynch, Tom Varner and Walt Weiskopf, though his first professional gig after moving to New York was with organist Jack McDuff. This year-long stint provided the alto saxophonist with a heavy dose ...
Marcus Printup: Jazz at Prague Castle 2007, Street Expressionism & Bird of Paradise
by Ken Dryden
Marcus Printup/Emil Viklicky Trio Jazz at Prague Castle 2007 Multisonic 2007 Paradigm Shift Street Expressionism Nagel Heyer 2007 Marcus Printup Bird of Paradise: The Music of Charlie Parker Steeplechase 2007
Big Bands From Around the World: Bennetts Lane Big Band, Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band & The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
by Ken Dryden
Bennetts Lane Big Band The Snip ABC Jazz 2008 Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band Blue Reverie Sackville 2008 The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Doug Munro: Big Boss Bossa Nova 2.0
by Ken Dryden
Doug Munro's sixth CD for Chase Music Group is a return to a traditional bossa nova trio, dropping the keyboards or sax utilized on most of his earlier projects. He is joined by bassist Michael Goetz, with Jason Devlin and Jason Anderson sharing the drum chair, all who primarily play supporting roles. The ...
Richie Cole: The Man With the Horn
by Ken Dryden
Richie Cole mislaid the tapes to this 1981 session long ago, finally running across them in his basement while looking for something else a quarter-century later. His working band at the time included Philippine pianist Bobby Enriquez (whom the alto saxophonist gave the nickname “The Wildman" for his frenetic playing upon hearing him for the first ...
Junior Mance: Eighty Years Young
by Ken Dryden
Chicago native Junior Mance doesn't sound like a man approaching his 80th birthday. The pianist, who credits Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie with helping him grow as a musician, has led over 30 recordings of his own and made numerous appearances as a sideman during a lengthy career. An enthusiastic conversationalist with a great ...
Steeplechase: Peter Zak & Tom Guarna
by Ken Dryden
Peter Zak Seed of Sin Steeplechase 2008 Tom Guarna Wingspan Steeplechase 2007 Steeplechase producer Nils Winther has long been a champion of promising artists who deserve to record as leaders but ...
Remi Bolduc: 4 + 1 with Jerry Bergonzi
by Ken Dryden
Alto saxophonist Remi Bolduc, a professional musician since the age of fifteen, is rather well known in his native Canada, where he has worked with bandleader Vic Vogel, pianists Oliver Jones and Lorraine Desmarais, the late drummer Bernard Primeau and guitarist René Lussier. He has also played gigs with Americans such as bassist Marc Johnson, guitarist ...
