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Aaron Irwin Group: Wide Awake
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is the debut recording for New York-based saxophonist Aaron Irwin. Following graduate work at the University of Miami, he has recorded this year with the school's Concert Jazz Band on Romances and also appeared on a 1999 compilation for the Lakeside Jazz label in Chicago on Mile By Miles Jazz. Aaron Irwin uses ...
Mike Greensill Trio: Live at the Plush Room
by Michael P. Gladstone
This new release from pianist Mike Greensill is exactly what the title suggests, a live appearance at San Francisco's Plush Room, and it's a pleasure to listen to. It's a throwback to the days when diners, drinkers and jazz afficionados could just sit back and soak up a well played set by a jazz piano trio. ...
The Jim Cutler Quartet: For Real
by Michael P. Gladstone
For its second outing, the Jim Cutler Quartet delivers twelve tracks, of which all but one are original compositions—mostly from Cutler, with two from pianist Brian Olendorf and one from bassist Philip Demaree. The personnel for this Seattle-area group is the same as on its 2002 debut, JCQ. The music presented on For Real ...
Joshua Breakstone: A Jamais
by Michael P. Gladstone
On a balmy evening in mid-January, 2003 on Duval Street in Key West, I was quite surprised to find Joshua Breakstone just concluding his second set at an outdoor cafe. After another hour of music and introductions, I changed my travel plans in order to catch Breakstone two nights later at another Key West venue teamed ...
Joe LoPiccolo: Passages
by Michael P. Gladstone
In his promotional notes, guitarist Joe LoPiccolo advises that the twelve original compositions in this album are “reflective of many musical influences including African, Brazilian, Classical, Eastern European, Indian and Jazz genres." After listening to Passages, I would agree that most of those elements are present in his playing, but there is very little to call ...
Diane Marino: On The Street Where You Live
by Michael P. Gladstone
On her second album, singer-pianist Diane Marino presents eleven tracks of standards, jazz standards and five Brazilian-oriented selections. Her preference for the latter songs reflects her fluent Portuguese. These tunes are delivered with what sounds like a more Hispanic vocal and certainly has no affectations of American vocal versions of the same material. It would the ...
Modern Man: Convergence
by Michael P. Gladstone
Modern Man, not to be confused with the folk/comedy group of the same name, is a mainstream bop sextet. The only player I'm familiar with is trumpeter Greg Gisbert. According to Bobby Shew's liner notes, the group has recently added trombonist Mark Patterson to the front line of trumpet and sax. The eight tracks consist of ...
The Yoko Miwa Trio: Fadeless Flower
by Michael P. Gladstone
The arrival of Yoko Miwa's Fadeless Flower brings a new jazz pianist to the table. Originally from Kobe, Japan, she studied piano with the father of Makoto Ozone, who burst onto the jazz scene in the 1980s when he took over the piano chair of the Gary Burton Quartet. Although Miwa originally studied classical piano, she ...
Pizzarelli/Moore/Frigo/Alden: Hot Club of 52nd Street
by Michael P. Gladstone
Conceived by label owner David Chesky as a followup to last season's Four Generations of Miles , this project features four musicians who embody the spirit of post-war swing music but also play with equal skill and enthusiasm in the bebop genre. Chesky did not want to make this into a Django Reinhardt nostalgia piece replete ...
Sue Tucker: May I Come In
by Michael P. Gladstone
Good things come in small packages! With May I Come In, Minnesota jazz singer Sue Tucker provides nine standards and two original compositions with a first class group of musicians. She harkens back to an era when girl singers, like Chris Connor or June Christy, just sang without gimmicks or artifice, melisma or multi-tracking. Also, there ...
