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Walter Booker Quintet: Bookie's Cookbook
by AAJ Staff
Although bassist Walter Booker has played with some of the biggest figures in jazz history (Cannonball and Nat Adderley; Stan Getz; Sonny Rollins; Thelonious Monk), recorded material under his own name remains elusive. Bookie's Cookbook documents a September '99 swinging session from his working quintet. This group features the versatile sounds of Cecil Payne's baritone sax, ...
Sunny
By Sunny Sumter
Label: Mapleshade Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Nick of Time, Detour Ahead, I Fall in Love Too Easily, Jim, The Best is Yet to Come, Nobody Know the Trouble I
Ohene Kesee A Ebin
By Asante
Label: Mapleshade Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Fontomfrom Suite (Movements 1-3); Ohene Kesee A Ebin; Obeche Solo; The Hill Can Rule Itself.
Asante: Ohene Kesee A Ebin
by AAJ Staff
The West African tradition of polyrhythmic drumming has found itself increasingly popular in the Afro- American tradition of jazz--and especially in so-called Caribbean and Latin styles. African artists have gradually found their way onto North American records. Witness Senegalese drummer Mor Thiam's collaborations with the World Saxophone Quartet and its members; or Ghanaian drummer Asante's work ...
Sunny Sumter: Sunny
by Mathew Bahl
Sunny Sumter is a young Washington D.C. based singer who graduated from the jazz department at Howard University. Ms. Sumter is a gifted and well-trained singer. Her voice has a beautiful, vibratoless tone. She exhibits solid intonation, good articulation and clear diction. She also seems to understand the limits of her own voice, and, for the ...
John Cocuzzi: Swingin' and Burnin'
by Dave Nathan
John Cocuzzi is a versatile, talented multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who with some other very talented musicians, stretch out for an entertaining 60 minutes plus of solid, straight ahead jazz music on this very good album, Swingin' and Burnin'. A Washington, D.C. native, Cocuzzi gained an appreciation of jazz at an early age listening to his record ...
Thurman Green: DANCE OF THE NIGHT CREATURES
by Paula Edelstein
Thurman Green’s remarkable journey through 20th century jazz has left an indelible imprint on both jazz trombonists and aficianados of low brass alike. A key innovator of avante garde/free jazz for trombone, Thurman Green is most often associated with the urban gems on the West Coast jazz scene. In 1997, Thurman Green left us with a ...
