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Jon Weber: Simple Complex
by Michael P. Gladstone
Released in April, Simple Complex is pianist Jon Weber's second album, presenting ten original compositions in a lengthy session. Originally a self-taught child prodigy on piano, Weber has been writing and performing in the Chicago area. His songs reflect a love of the post bop pianists like Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul. The use of the ...
Brian Lynch: Brian Lynch Meets Bill Charlap
by Michael P. Gladstone
Although the titles implies that this is the first meeting for the pianist and trumpet/flugelhornist, they did work together in the Phil Woods Quintet during the 1990s. The album is really a showcase for the two on either ballads or hard driving bebop compositions. For the sake of argument, let's say that the sixty-two minutes are ...
Marilyn Harris: Future Street
by Michael P. Gladstone
Future Street is an outstanding new vocal package from West Coast jazz singer/songwriter Marilyn Harris. First, a brief word about the music. The most adventurous jazz singers will take a jazz standard from the past (e.g. a Wayne Shorter Blue Note classic, a Coleman Hawkins composition from the 1940s, etc.) and set original lyrics to the ...
Ned Goold Trio: The Flows
by Michael P. Gladstone
Although tenor saxman Ned Goold has recorded two albums in the past few years, The Flows is a major breakthrough as far as I'm concerned. The scenario of a piano-less trio (tenor sax-bass-drums) is a daunting format in which the “rubber meets the road" with no margin for error. Goold is a musician who I've only ...
Egberto Gismonti: Rarum XI: Selected Recordings
by Michael P. Gladstone
Along with eleven others, ECM's Rarum Series has recently chosen to visit the works of the Brazilian musician/composer/ethno-musicologist Egberto Gismonti. After 27 years of recording for this label, Gismonti remains a quixotic and innovative contributor to his countrymen and a worldwide audience. Originally trained as a pianist, he adapted keyboard techniques for his customized ...
John Hines: In The Pocket
by Michael P. Gladstone
In the Pocket is a straight-ahead trombone album from John Hines. The majority of this group is from the Denver, Colorado area. Hines shows a good mix of nine standards, jazz standards and original tunes from keyboardist Michael Pagan. The opening title track, written by Hines, typifies the session with a bright melody line. ...
Kerry Strayer Septet featuring Gary Foster: Mentor
by Michael P. Gladstone
There's much to admire in this album. Come to think of it, in the pre-Beatles world of music, about 45 years ago, the same sort of quality project was being produced on a regular basis. Kerry Strayer leads a septet, with Gary Foster in what the liner notes call “the great Kansas City jazz tradition." Inasmuch ...
Lorraine Feather: Such Sweet Thunder
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's a bit early, but here's my bid for Best Vocal Project of 2004. Lorraine Feather, daughter of the famed jazz historian/critic/composer Leonard Feather, has delivered a significant appreciation of the Ellington/Strayhorn oeuvre. In the early 1960s Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing Ellington got my attention and resulted in my examination, for the first time, of ...
Eberhard Weber: Rarum XVIII: Selected Recordings
by Michael P. Gladstone
After checking my LP collection, I learn that I have seven Eberhard Weber albums from 1973 through 1980. I'm pretty sure that Colours of Chloë was the very first ECM album that I purchased, and it was simply on an aesthetic basis. The album was a complete tabula rasa with clean yet austere packaging, unknown musicians ...
Gypsy Schaeffer: Gypsy Schaeffer
by Michael P. Gladstone
The Boston-based quartet known as Gypsy Schaeffer is named after an establishment located in Storyville, the New Orleans red light district, around the turn of the century which claims Jelly Roll Morton as an employee. I don't suspect that any other musical ensemble will be appropriating a similar name. Three members of the group are from ...
