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Jeff Alkire: One Summer In Winters
by Michael P. Gladstone
Were one to accept the background notes on altoist/composer Jeff Alkire's One Summer In Winters, it would be reasonable to expect a Paul Winter-type album, in which the music is tailored to bring out the purity of communicating with the wildlife animals that frequent Alikre's northern California property. The altoist intended to “send something beautiful back ...
Misha Piatigorsky: Uncommon Circumstances
by Michael P. Gladstone
One could make an interesting case for pianist, composer and bandleader Misha Piatigorsky. He is a Russian émigré (1981), an accomplished musician, a student of pianist Kenny Barron with a Master Degree from the Manhattan School of Music and, not lastly, the winner of the Thelonious Monk 2004 BMI Composers Composition. Piatigorsky also has recorded with ...
Elisabeth Lohninger: The Only Way Out Is Up
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is an ambitious second album from Austrian-born, New York-based jazz vocalist Elisabeth Lohninger. With a background in both classical music and jazz, Lohninger sings fluently in three languages and, in addition to her 2004 debut album, has written original film scores as well as music for television. Her partnership with pianist Walter Fischbacher as the ...
Lafayette Harris,Jr.: In The Middle of the Night
by Michael P. Gladstone
In The Middle Of The Night is pianist Lafayette Harris' first funk and contemporary jazz album (e.g. smooth or urban jazz). That is exactly why I approached this disc with such trepidation, having positive memories of his first albums on Muse in the early 1990s. His debut, Lafayette is Here (Muse, 1993) was a fine date ...
Wolfgang Muthspiel-Brian Blade: Friendly Travelers
by Michael P. Gladstone
I've been hearing guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel for over fifteen years now and have categorized him in a fusion-ish setting with a propensity to emulate the harder-edged style of John Scofield. So it came as a pleasant surprise to find that his co-venture with one of the most musical drummer/percussionists in jazz today, Brian Blade, is a ...
Toru Dodo: Dodo 3
by Michael P. Gladstone
Pianist and composer Toru Dodo was born in Tokyo in 1972 and has been living in New York for the past eleven years. Dodo3 is, as you'd suspect, his third release on the Japanese label Jazz City. This album was originally released in Japan in 2006 and was made available in the U.S. in 2007. As ...
Chie Imaizumi: Unfailing Kindness
by Michael P. Gladstone
The youthful composer/arranger Chie Imaizumi has released a debut album after befriending trumpeter Greg Gisbert along the way. After making a demo from her performance at the 2004 North Sea Festival, she sent it to the Denver-based trumpeter who picked up the musical ball and ran all the way with it per selection of the musicians, ...
Anne Kerry Ford: Weill
by Michael P. Gladstone
Anne Kerry Ford's third album, Weill, is quite an accomplishment for the actress and singer. A Juilliard graduate, Ford has been pursuing her muse in films, theatre, and now the Cabaret music of German-born Kurt Weill. Weill fled pre-war Germany in the early '30s to avoid the anti-Semitic fever that was a symbol of the years ...
Craig Buhler: Capistrano Sessions
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is the first album for saxophonist/composer/bandleader Craig Buhler, who hails from the Seattle area. Since the early '70s, Buhler has also had a successful run with his rock band, Honk, as well as providing, in another phase of his musical life, Christian music. Buhler and his quintet provide eleven original compositions that evoke ...
Samson Trinh: Very Strange Night
by Michael P. Gladstone
File under: “What I did in my senior year". As a senior at VCU (Virginia Commonweath University), twenty-one year-old Samson Trinh completed this album for which he wrote all but one of the tunes and hired some of the best musicians from the Richmond, Virginian area, including members of his own Upper East Side Big Band. ...
