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Dado Moroni: Anything Else; Live Conversations & Magone
by Ken Dryden
Rosario Giuliani Anything Else Dreyfus 2007 Dado Moroni & Enrico Pieranunzi Live Conversations Abeat 2007 Solitude Dreyfus 2007 Pianist Dado Moroni is essentially a ...
Mt. Hood Jazz Band and Combo 2007: I'm Still Here
by Ken Dryden
There is a certain level of expectation for student bands, but the music from this all-star group belies its members' tender years. Their ensembles are tight and the soloists play at a very high level. The Mt. Hood Jazz Band--well-directed by Susie Jones and consisting of musicians from the Pacific Northwest--performed at the 2007 IAJE Conference ...
Jon Gordon: Within Worlds
by Ken Dryden
Jon Gordon is easily one of the top alto saxophonists of his generation. He is well-versed in bop, though his eleventh CD as a leader (and second for ArtistShare) covers a lot of new ground, compiling music from several different sessions and focusing exclusively on his stimulating originals. His quintet session with pianist ...
Three Views of Solo Piano From Around the World: Frank Kimbrough, Andrea Keller & Martial Solal
by Ken Dryden
Frank Kimbrough Air Palmetto 2007 Andrea Keller Footprints ABC Jazz 2007 Martial Solal Solitude CamJazz 2007 Solo piano allows a jazz ...
One Writer's Method of Compiling a Year End "Best of" List
by Ken Dryden
Many of us are habitual list makers and list readers, which even prompted a book a couple of decades ago entitled The Book of Lists. I am frequently asked for desert island lists (I usually say I do not want to get that far away from my entire collection), or even just a favorite album by ...
IAJE 2008: Cool Jazz in a Cool City - Take 2
by Ken Dryden
I have been to every IAJE conference beginning in 2000 (New Orleans), but the 2008 Toronto event was a bit unusual in many ways. First of all, many of the folks I usually run into did not attend, possibly because the drop of the U.S. dollar vs. the Canadian Looney, the lack of the required passport, ...
Ezra Weiss: Get Happy
by Ken Dryden
Pianist Ezra Weiss' third CD as a leader takes a bit of different path than his earlier outings. On hand once more are alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, tenorist Kelly Roberge and either Billy Hart or Jason Brown on drums, while new faces include bassist Corcoran Holt, trumpeter Kevin Louis and trombonists Andy Hunter or Andrae Murchison, ...
Benny Goodman: The Essential & With Benny in Mind
by Ken Dryden
Benny Goodman The Essential Benny Goodman Columbia/Bluebird/Legacy 2007 Allan Vaché With Benny in Mind Arbors 2006 By the time of his death in 1987, clarinetist Benny Goodman was firmly ...
Various Artists: Christmas With the Jazz Legends, Vol. 2
by Ken Dryden
Lone Hill Jazz is best known for their straight reissues of long unavailable, valuable jazz sessions. But this anthology is a messy hodge-podge of holiday songs, ranging from legitimate jazz instrumentals and vocals, to crossover vocals awash in strings and vocalists who are well outside of jazz. There are some memorable diamonds mixed in ...
Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: Carol of the Bells
by Ken Dryden
Every band that records a Christmas album faces identical challenges: find fresh approaches to familiar repertoire or think outside the box and choose songs that weren't written with the holiday in mind. While the Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra sticks with traditional favorites, trombonist/arranger Brent Wallarab--who counts Duke Ellington, Sy Oliver, Billy Byers, Nelson Riddle, Billy May ...
