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The Stryker/Slagle Band: Live At The Jazz Standard
by Michael P. Gladstone
Although they've been playing gigs together for the past twenty years, guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle didn't make it official until just a few seasons ago for their first joint venture. Stryker and Slagle are also members of Trio Mundo, which is currently recording on the same label. This latest effort, recorded earlier this ...
Joan Crowe: Bird On The Wire
by Michael P. Gladstone
Joan Crowe won the prestigious 2002 MAC Award, which is the cabaret industry's version of the Grammy or Academy Award. Crowe is a dynamic, witty, and unpredictable entertainer, and her debut album demonstrates these traits. Bird On The Wire has all the signs of a well-planned and executed cabaret album, rather than a jazz vocal session. ...
Mark Sherman: One Step Closer
by Michael P. Gladstone
Mark Sherman's sixth album will hopefully do something to spread the word about this talented vibraphonist's work. Sherman is a New Yorker who has a has a degree from Julliard and has worked in a classical music environment. He's been recording since 1986, but he's largely worked as a sideman for other recording artists, including long ...
Steve Heckman Quartet: Live at Yoshi's
by Michael P. Gladstone
Saxophonist Steve Heckman's second album is a continuation of his pursuit of John Coltrane. The middle period referred to on these eight tracks spans the late 1950s (from recordings on Prestige and Atlantic). Having not heard Heckman's debut, this is a pleasure to listen to, among the several Coltrane homages over the past few years. Heckman ...
Bud Shank Quartet With Phil Woods: Bouncing With Bud & Phil
by Michael P. Gladstone
In his liner notes to Bouncing With Bud & Phil, Doug Ramsey makes an interesting point that both of these living legend altoists are the musical offspring of Charlie Parker, even though their home bases are located in California/the Pacific Northwest and the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania, respectively. Bud Shank was recognized as ...
Randy Sandke and the Metatonal Band: The Mystic Trumpeter
by Michael P. Gladstone
Trumpeter and composer Randy Sandke has recorded 22 albums as a leader since 1985 and has appeared on countless others in largely a mainstream and postwar swing setting, and of late he has dabbled in outside jazz. The Mystic Trumpeter may be Sandke's most ambitious effort to date. The album is presented as “metatonal" music, which ...
Chris McNulty: Dance Delicioso
by Michael P. Gladstone
Singer Chris McNulty has logged quite a few miles and years since she made the move to relocate to New York from her native Australia in the late 1980s. Dance Delicioso is her fifth effort. The album begins with an atypical performance of the Annie Lennox composition “Primitive," and her delivery here is in the manner ...
The Randy Sandke Quartet: Trumpet After Dark
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is much to admire in this album, subtitled Jazz In A Meditative Mood. Trumpeter Randy Sandke has been actively recording since 1985, largely in a postwar swing and mainstream style, although Mainstream Meets the New Music, his 2002 venture into free jazz, raised some eyebrows and garnered new fans. Sandke is comfortable working in a ...
Julie Hardy: A Moment's Glance
by Michael P. Gladstone
Julie Hardy's first album, A Moment's Glance, is a good representation of the hard-working jazz vocalist as she pursues frequent appearances in lower Manhattan's jazz clubs with her working band. Hardy is New Hampshire-educated and received a Masters in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2001. A year leter, she was one ...
Ilona Knopfler: Live The Life
by Michael P. Gladstone
Beaucoup plaisir awaits on this English and French jazz vocal new release. Ilona Knopfler, born in Paris but a pre-school world traveler, made her stage debut at the age of fifteen in Hong Kong and later became the house favorite at the Jazz Club in Hong Kong. Moving to New York, Knopfler studied for five years ...
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