Results for "Lyte Records"

John Moriarty: Echoes

by Ian Patterson
August 7, 2013

Adopting a traditional, straight-ahead approach to the quartet, Irish guitarist John Moriarty gathered three established New York-based musicians for one day in the Bunker Studios, Brooklyn. The title suggests homage, and there is a hint of classic Blue Note in the leader's clean lines--evocative of guitarist Jim Hall--and in half of the songs that delve into ...

Nigel Mooney: The Bohemian Mooney

by Bruce Lindsay
May 22, 2013

The island of Ireland has a long and impressive history of great blues singers--Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, Phil Lynott all brought a raw, bluesy, intensity to their performances. Singer and guitarist Nigel Mooney has been on the Irish blues scene since the '80s and his jazz-inflected take on the genre is shown to enjoyable effect on ...

Dagda

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Suite For RLH, I; Suite For RLH, II; Suite For RLH, III; “; Suite For RLH, V; Song In C; NLTD; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing.

Drivin' Force

By Lloyd Ryan

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Moondance; I Wish I Knew; Norwegian Wood; Funtime; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; You Gotta Try; Ice Castles; The Creep; Groovin Hard; Big Swing Face; Cute; One For Monk.

Interlude

By David Lyttle

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2012

Dagda

By Tom Harrison

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2012

Dagda Quartet: Dagda

by Bruce Lindsay
May 21, 2012

How to get a debut album noticed? It's not easy--big marketing campaigns, celebrity endorsement or major national television exposure are hard to achieve if, like most contemporary artists, the budget is somewhere between limited and non-existent. There's one key attribute that helps enormously though: great music. Welcome to an album full of great music: Dagda, the ...

Lloyd Ryan Big Band: Drivin' Force

by Bruce Lindsay
March 5, 2012

A straight-ahead, drummer-led big band is one of the most stimulating ensemble formats in jazz. Buddy Rich's groups are perhaps the epitome of such an enterprise. The Lloyd Ryan Big Band, blasting through a selection of standards and pop classics on Drivin' Force, proudly carries on the tradition.Ryan, a British drummer, has been a ...

John Leighton: Dramatic Life

by Dan Bilawsky
January 7, 2012

John Leighton's debut is a collection of poetic, pop-laced jazz that often downplays the pianist's own performance skills in favor of Anna Stott's easy-on-the-ears vocals and saxophonist Michael Buckley's engaging saxophone work. While Leighton's name rests high atop the cover of the album, he chooses to use his piano to serve the songs instead of himself, ...

Taylor Made

By Linley Hamilton

Label: Lyte Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Without a Song; Fade a Little; Happy People; My Heart's Desire; This Can't Be Love; Throw It Away; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; Have a Good Time; Rosewood.