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Night Town

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: I Want to Be Happy; J'Attendrai; Valse a Rosenthal; Seven Steps to Heaven; Speevy; Coquette; Sweet Substitute; Blues Up and Down; Pour Parler; Melodie au Crepuscule; Two Weeks; Tzigane; Django's Monkey; Night Town; Swing 05.
Detroit

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Blues on Belle Isle; Cass Tech; Detroit; Miss Gretchen; Before Motown; The Detroit River; Everywhere; Aram.
The Search Within

By Sean Jones
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Search Within (Interlude); Transitions; The Ambitious Violet;
Life Cycles; The Storm; Letter Of Resignation; The Search Within (For
Less); Summer's Spring; Sunday Reflections; Sean's Jones Comes Down;
Love's Lullaby; The Search Within (Postlude).
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Detroit

by Robert J. Robbins
Commissioned by the Detroit International Jazz Festival and premiered on the occasion of the composer's 91st birthday, Gerald Wilson's six-movement Detroit Suite" demonstrates that after nearly seven decades in the music business, the nonagenarian composer and arranger still has a great deal to offer in terms of musical creativity. Wilson spent the latter part of his ...
Sean Jones: The Search Within

by AAJ Italy Staff
In soli dieci anni Sean Jones si è imposto nel giro dei migliori trombettisti afroamericani e, oltre alla tecnica invidiabile, ha mostrato un approccio emotivo profondo alla composizione ed esecuzione. E' uno di quei musicisti che non suona (o fa suonare) una nota priva di peso, valore e impatto. L'intensità è una costante della sua musica, ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Swinging, Singing, Playing

by Robert J. Robbins
Count Basie OrchestraSwinging, Singing, PlayingMack Avenue2009 Although over a quarter-century has elapsed since the passing of William “Count" Basie in 1984, the bandleader and pianist's legacy has proved one of the most durable from the big band era, and the Basie band's Swinging, Singing, Playing maintains the Basie ...
Carl Allen & Rodney Whitaker: Work To Do

by Angela Davis
On Carl Allen and Rodney Whitaker's Work to Do, their second collaboration with Mack Avenue Records, the musicians focus on groove, beauty and respect for the tradition. Allen and Whitaker provide a swinging backdrop for some of New York's finest and most respected musicians, including guitarist Rodney Jones and saxophonist Vincent Herring, two very ...
Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown

by Ken Dryden
Since arriving in New York City in the late 1980s, where he briefly studied at Juilliard, Christian McBride has been one of jazz's most in-demand bassists. In addition, he has become a valuable composer, arranger and jazz educator with a wide-open interest in many musical styles. The initial CD by McBride's Inside Straight quartet ...
Sean Jones: The Search Within

by Edward Blanco
With The Search Within, his fifth recording on Mack Avenue Records, Sean Jones continues the musical journey he first embarked on at the tender age of 24 with his 2004 debut, Eternal Journey. A trumpeter, composer and educator (Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies, Duquesne University), Jones is one of the finest young trumpeters in the ...
Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Kind of Brown

by John Barron
Bassist/composer Christian McBride is one of the most in-demand sidemen in the music business, having toured and recorded with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Diana Krall and Sting. The Philadelphia-native has also made a name for himself as a daring leader, exploring both acoustic and electronic styles. For Kind of Brown, his premier date ...