Home » Search Center » Results: Michael P. Gladstone
Results for "Michael P. Gladstone"
The Dave Wilson Quartet: My Time
by Michael P. Gladstone
Dave Wilson's debut album, Through The Time (2002), presented him as a post-Coltrane soprano and tenor saxophonist with a penchant for melody. On My Time, recorded with a Pennsylvania group, he retains bassisst Steve Meashey, adding pianist Matt Hockmiller and drummer Tony Deangelis. Wilson opens the album with an unusual choice, Alec Wilder's “Moon ...
Joel Penner Sextet: The Church of the Little Black Dog
by Michael P. Gladstone
Los Angeles-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Joel Penner is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. His first album, DragonJazz (2001), was well received and resulted in Sea Breeze extending him an invitation to join the label's roster, eventually yielding this recording. Penner gets off to a fine start with a little big band sound ...
Mala Waldron: Always There
by Michael P. Gladstone
My first reaction to this new album from the daughter of jazz pianist/composer/bandleader Mal Waldron was that it was a R&B/smooth jazz entry. But after a second listen, I was able to find a few reasons to get it over towards the jazz side of town. Mala Waldron has plenty of formal jazz training, having studied ...
Bob Lark: Until You
by Michael P. Gladstone
Until You is the second album from Chicago trumpeter/flugelhornist Bob Lark, who also serves as the Jazz Chair at Chicago's DePaul University, where he directs the school's Jazz Ensemble and teaches trumpet and courses in jazz pedagogy and jazz style. Lark poses on the inside cover in a very Chet Baker-ish photo with his flugelhorn.
Ernie Andrews: How About Me
by Michael P. Gladstone
Ernie Andrews has been around since the late 1940s, an era when big band singers were still in vogue. He pays homage to influences like Billy Eckstine, Al Hibbler and Earl Coleman in this collection of eleven tracks. Despite his credentials and a few big band recordings in the 1950s, Andrews remained an obscure vocalist for ...
Eddie Gomez & Mark Kramer: Art of the Heart
by Michael P. Gladstone
It doesn't take more than a minute or two of listening to Art of the Heart to hear the influence of pianist Bill Evans. Pianist Mark Kramer applies the same lyrical bent towards this project with ex-Evans bassist Eddie Gomez--one of the three bassists whose careers are indelibly connected to Evans' trios. This combines for a ...
Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes
by Michael P. Gladstone
Musical Echoes marks Sathima Bea Benjamin's return to recording after Cape Town Love (1999). This album was recorded in her hometown, Cape Town, and reflects a certain sense of return for the vocalist. My own association with her music goes back to 1979 and her second album, Sathima Sings Ellington, the first release on her own ...
Christine Rosholt: Detour Ahead
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is a lot to like about vocalist Christine Rosholt, who's based in Minnesota's Twin Cities region. On her debut album, she displays a good jazz sensibility on thirteen time-tested tunes.The album begins promisingly with an easygoing “East of the Sun" and continues with the rarely heard Johnny Mercer lyrics to Woody Herman/Ralph Burns' ...
Ron Kaplan: Saloon
by Michael P. Gladstone
Ron Kaplan has recorded four previous albums with differently stuctured groups on his own Kapland label in the wish of preserving the music of the Great American Songbook. On his latest, subtitled “The Ron Kaplan-Weber Iago Album," he's accompanied only by pianist Weber Iago on nine songs. Kaplan, a California native, studied with pianist ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist/composer Johnnie Valentino beings his South Philly musical background spliced in with a N'awlins turn-of-the-century ambiance on this ambitious guitar-organ-sax album with a few asterisks attached. The inspiration was the 100th anniversary of the end of the use of a tuba, which became phased out by acoustic bass. In order to restore the music to the ...
