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Roseanna Vitro Quartet: Live at The Kitano
by Michael P. Gladstone
Roseanna Vitro Quartet The Kitano New York, NY October 7-8, 2006Tucked away on New York City's prestigious Park Avenue is The Kitano Hotel, a beautiful Japanese-styled hostelry providing a respite from the clamor of midtown Manhattan. Within the confines of the hotel is an intimate and visually pleasing lounge ...
Dave Glasser: Above The Clouds
by Michael P. Gladstone
Altoist Dave Glasser continues to build his reputation with Above the Clouds, a well-realized album that's equally divided between Glasser originals and visits to the Great American Songbook. Glasser's group includes pianist Larry Ham and the veteran rhythm section of bassist Dennis Irwin and drummer Carl Allen. I had the pleasure of hearing Glasser (along with ...
Dave Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues
by Michael P. Gladstone
Dave Liebman has released seventy albums since 1972, matching some of the most frequently recorded musicians in jazz, but the soprano saxophonist keeps moving forward. Vienna Dialogues is a duet performance with pianist Bobby Avey. Throughout his career, Liebman has collaborated on several piano-saxophone duet albums, the most recent of which was Manhattan Dialogues (Zoho, 2005) ...
Greg Smith: Above The Clouds
by Michael P. Gladstone
One of the oddities in musical categorization has been the establishment of the New Age and smooth jazz (aka contemporary jazz) genres. Although they originally represented very different branches of popular music, the distinction has continued to blur over the decades. Originally, New Age music was established by musicians and entrepreneurs like Will Ackerman, ...
Nancy Osborne: Hot Swing, Cool Jazz
by Michael P. Gladstone
I'm in a quandary to describe this album of big band jazz vocals from Nancy Osborne as anything more than “pleasant." Through no fault of the singer or the top-flight band of West Coast musicians like Pete Christlieb, Gary Herbig, Charley Loper and Tom Ranier--or the arrangements of Bob Florence, Paul McDonald, Lon Norman, Jonathan Barick ...
Nick Russo + 11: Ro
by Michael P. Gladstone
Ro is a wild ride for the guitarist Nick Russo and his group, displaying a number of his original compositions in a variety of settings. The guitarist seems determined to combine his interest in Indian music with jazz. The other eleven musicians also provide different textures for several of these tracks. Nick Russo is from Selden, ...
Ellen Johnson: These Days
by Michael P. Gladstone
Despite a terrific press reception to her work, jazz singer Ellen Johnson unfortunately is not the household word she should be. She has previously recorded two albums, Too Good To Title (1993) and Chinchilla Serenade (1997); These Days is her third. Ellen Johnson, originally a Chicagoan, now lives and works in San Diego as ...
Rob Mullins: Standards & More
by Michael P. Gladstone
Listening to this album for the first time, I shouldn't have been surprised at Rob Mullins' straight-ahead jazz chops. To the best of my knowledge, this is the pianist/composer's first mainstream jazz album, but he has been quite prolific, recording sixteen albums since 1988. Mullins attended University of Northern Colorado, studied piano with George Russell in ...
Fred Fried: The Wisdom of Notes
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist Fred Fried is a protege of master plectrist George Van Eps, with whom he studied with him in California; Van Eps was the first to popularize the seven-string guitar. Having gained knowledge about the instrument, Fried also realized that the added string gave more of a complexity to the guitar, and he was able to ...
Roberta Donnay: What's Your Story
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bay Area singer Roberta Donnay has an usual past for a jazz vocalist. She already has several albums and a fan base, but according to her website these songs have been in the category of electro-chill-ambient jazz, smooth jazz, trance music, acid jazz, etc. Her initial jazz vocal experience was at the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival, ...
