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Ella Gahnt & The Dr. Jay Trio: Immaculate Union
by Michael P. Gladstone
Philadelphia vocalist Ella Gahnt offers thirteen tracks on Immaculate Union, which suffers from inconsistent programming. She is supported by a piano trio under the direction of Dr. Jay Fluellen. The album begins in a promising fashion with an effective mid tempo version of the Rogers & Hart “This Can't Be Love" and moves into “Schizophrenic Love ...
Pete Malinverni: The Tempest
by Michael P. Gladstone
New York pianist Pete Malinverni is a familiar name to jazz lovers who scan the newspaper pages to see who is appearing on the club scene. Although he has several recordings on the well-regarded independent Reservoir label over the past seven years, this is my first opportunity to hear him first-hand. Malinverni has also been a ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: American Jazz Institute Presents The Clifford Brown Project
by Michael P. Gladstone
Having recently learned about the ingenuity of Mark Masters per his May 2004 release with Lee Konitz, One Day With Lee , I eagerly anticipated checking out Masters' 2003 album The Clifford Brown Project. In order to examine the body of music associated with the later trumpeter, Masters devised a unique methodology to ...
Buddy DeFranco with the John Pizzarelli Trio and Butch Miles: Cookin' The Books
by Michael P. Gladstone
How about that? Cookin' The Books provides a positive spin on the current description of corporate greed and deception. For the purposes of this album, it has been corrupted to refer to the Great American Songbook and, indeed, Buddy DeFranco and company are certainly doing a fine job of cookin' these tunes. DeFranco, in his 60th ...
Paul Serrato & Co.: Origami
by Michael P. Gladstone
I like the sense of purpose and accomplishment of this effort by pianist/composer Paul Serrato and his group on seven compositions, all original except for Miles Davis' “Solar." Serrato is a midwesterner transplanted to the New York music scene and has developed an effective sound in which the Latin percussion of Henry Morales on conga and ...
Dave Askren Trio: Re: Bill Evans
by Michael P. Gladstone
Los Angeles-based guitarist Dave Askren has undertaken a formidable project in adapting the music and style of Bill Evans for a guitar-bass-drums trio. In his liner notes Askren goes to a great deal of trouble to rationalize the validity and difficulties of this undertaking, insofar as Evans' influences for many of the selections and the difficulties ...
Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day With Lee
by Michael P. Gladstone
Alto sax legend Lee Konitz seems to gather more steam with each passing year. I saw him play twice in the 1970s and each performance was a revelation. He appeared with a piano-less trio taking it both inside and out before an appreciative undergraduate audience and later in the decade with his bracing nonet. In recent ...
The Mike Murley Quintet: Extra Time
by Michael P. Gladstone
Recorded in Toronto, this is the seventh album since 1987 by Canadian saxophonist Mike Murley, who has since gathered a reputation as an influential musician. He has previously recorded with several of the members of this current quintet. The seven originals presented here provide a look at this post-bop quintet with the two ...
The Joe Kap Organ Trio: Street Noise
by Michael P. Gladstone
This recording of largely original compositions from the Joe Kap (né Kaplowitz) Organ Trio is a combination of the old and the new, insofar as the genre of organ-guitar-drum groups are concerned. The band well may have been playing the last set at Dupree's Rib Joint, possibly located near the intersection of Myrtle and Bedford Avenues ...
Greta Matassa: Live at Tula's
by Michael P. Gladstone
Greta Matassa is a Seattle-based jazz singer who evidently has a strong following and some valid credentials from the prestigious Earshot Magazine. This publication named Matassa as Best Female Jazz Vocalist for multiple years in the Pacific Northwest area. This album, recorded live at Tula's, the popular downtown Seattle jazz club, offers thirteen standards backed by ...
