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Bob Mintzer Big Band/New York Voices: Meeting Of Minds
by Dan Bilawsky
Meeting Of Minds plays more like a merger than an encounter. And that, after all, is how all successful collaborations should feel. Hearing Bob Mintzer's big band and New York Voices join forces for a trip through newly-arranged takes on '30s and '40s gems from the Great American Songbook is a reminder that some music can ...
Fathers and Sons
By Don Aliquo
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: But Not For Me; Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; Because He Lives; The Symbol of Priority; So Danco Samba; The September One; I Should Care; Fathers and
Sons; Lush Live; Wendt's Bent.
The Hope of Christmas
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: 1. On Union Street (A Christmas Toast)04:13
2. The Hope of Christmas 04:12
3. One Star 04:35
4. Discovery 05:12
5. I Believe 03:46
6. I Saw a Sparrow 03:19
7. Santa Doesn't Like Me 03:35
8. Christmas Isn't Christmas At All 04:46
9. I Want To Play Santa 04:26
10. What Good Is Being Cranky (When It's Christmas Time) 04:01
11. My Gift of Thanks 04:23
12. Fly With The Angels 05:47
Get Up!
By Bob Mintzer
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Get Up!; Land Of Oak; It's Your Thing; I Thank You; Sing A Simple Song; Truth Spoken Here; Elegant People; Civil War; Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Perchance To Dream
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Change Partners; Poor Girl; Close Enough For Love; Pure Imagination; When I Close My Eyes; How Am I To Know; Save Your Love For Me; You Better Love Me; Sharing The Night With The Blues; Here's To Life.
Joyful Jazz
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Jingle Bells; Jingles, the Christmas Cat; Carol of the Bells; A Cradle in Bethlehem; Do You Hear What I Hear?; It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; White Christmas; Merry Christmas, John Coltrane; Snowfall; Sleigh Ride; The Christmas Song; Joy to the World.
MCG Jazz does Christmas: New Holiday Releases From Ann Hampton Callaway and the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra
by Dan Bilawsky
The inevitability of new Christmas albums often fills jazz journalists with dread. And while some may assume it's because we're a cynical breed with unreasonable standards and upturned noses, that couldn't be further from the truth (in most cases). The reason jazz journalists approach new Christmas albums with caution is simple: the number of slipshod, hastily-produced, ...
Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra: Joyful Jazz
by Jack Bowers
One way in which to launch an appraisal of this outstanding seasonal album, the first ever by the world-class Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, is to check out its candid--and uncommonly accurate--title. Joyful? Most definitely. Jazz? Without a doubt. For five years, the orchestra's annual holiday celebration has been a welcome tradition for families in the greater Pittsburgh ...
Gloria Reuben: Perchance To Dream
by Mike Perciaccante
Based on her performance (back in the day) on NBC's ER, when she sang Green Day's “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)," it was obvious that Gloria Reuben had the chops. Reuben's character Jeanie Boulet, sang a stunning version of the song, which, don't let the title fool you, is actually a plaintive ballad, as a ...
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up!
by Jack Bowers
Even after more than three decades as a big-band leader, and with twenty well-received albums under his belt, Grammy winner Bob Mintzer keeps pushing the envelope, tweaking his recipe and exploring new ways in which to challenge himself and his sidemen while seducing the listener's ear. Known among other things for his fondness for Latin music, ...
