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People Behave Like Ballads
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2004
Track listing: Lead Us; Here the Same but Different; These Bones are Yours Alone; If Only; I'd Like to Think It's Coming; It's Only Love; When the Rain Comes; It Won't Be for Long; Learning; East Andover; Old Familiar Song; Lonesome Town; I'm Not Afraid; Gone Like the Season Does; I'm the One; Play For Me.
Slickrock
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2004
Track listing: You and the Night and the Music; Wishing on the Moon; Every Which Way; Put Your Little Foot Right Out; It Could Happen to You; Body and Soul; Sweet Georgia Brown; E.S.P.; Just Passing By; Slickrock: Dawn: Gathering; On the Trail; Recovery; On the Trail Again.
Ren: Serene Renegade
by Jim Santella
Modern jazz appeals to those who love spontaneity. As René Marie embraces intuitive poetry and heartfelt memories, she applies a personal touch. Her wordless vocals and lyric interpretations give every performance an improviser's cloak. Interwoven with a mystique, her session can mesmerize an audience in minutes. But it's her fresh spontaneity that makes each performance so ...
Rebecca Martin: People Behave Like Ballads
by Jim Santella
With her session of sixteen original songs, singer Rebecca Martin sends a message. She tells stories about love and how we feel about our relationships. These are folk songs. The music that accompanies her tender lyrics also gives off a glow of folk music charm. While the message is universal, the instrumental harmony remains rooted in ...
Jessica Williams: Live At Yoshi's Volume One
by Chris May
It's all too easy to let piano trio albums pass you by. The format is so familiar, and the palette so thoroughly explored, that the prospect of adventure and surprise may seem remote. If it's not the Esbjorn Svensson Trio or the Bad Plus, packing their radical hairstyles and digital effects, the music can find itself ...
Jessica Williams: Live At Yoshi's, Volume One
by Jim Santella
An evening out with the Jessica Williams trio is a pleasure never to be forgotten. Her interpretation of the songs we love keeps them near and dear to our hearts. With Ray Drummond and Victor Lewis, the pianist rings true with a song selection fit for lovers of the straight-ahead scene. Her crisp articulation ...
Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume One
by John Kelman
Pianist Jessica Williams may not be as well known, say, as Mulgrew Miller or Kenny Barron, but she's a powerful and talented pianist more than a little influenced by Thelonious Monk. Still, with an immediately recognizable playing style all her own, Williams clearly belongs in the upper ranks of mainstream pianists, and her latest disc, Live ...
Mulgrew Miller: Live at Yoshi's, Volume One
by Russ Musto
Mulgrew Miller's second release for MaxJazz, his first live recording as a leader, captures the pianist's current working trio featuring his long time associate, drummer Karriem Riggins, and the amazing young Philadelphia bassist Derrick Hodge, at Yoshi's, the Bay Area's premier jazz establishment, in a set of classic music that should stir any discerning listener. Miller ...
Mulgrew Miller: Live At Yoshi's, Volume One
by Jim Santella
Gone are the days when a live recording would find the artist being drowned out by loud conversation or by microphones that are misplaced and under-valued. Just look at some of our treasured historical recordings of Bird and Diz, and from other pioneers such as Pops. Some of their early live sessions stood worlds apart from ...
