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Jim Pearce: Thirty Year Waltz
by Michael P. Gladstone
Pianist Jim Pearce has been an Atlanta resident since the early 1970s and is an accomplished songwriter. The title tune, “Thirty Year Waltz," was deemed the Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting in the 2002 Great American Songwriting Contest. This debut recording displays eleven of Pearce's compositions. The tunes all share an attractive mainstream jazz melody ...
G.F. Mlely Trio: A Little Night Waltz
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's difficult enough keeping up with the many new jazz piano trio offerings. So, when you come across G.F. Mlely, who has a recording history going back to 1979, it's a bit puzzling that someone so prolific has been so unknown. As a jazz composer and pianist, avant-garde choral composer, author of essays on jazz writing ...
Ken Rose: Slowpoke
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is yet another fine new guitarist waiting to be discovered by the public and other plectrists, a Bostonian product who savored the exposure to famed guitarists passing through town. Mr. Rose reports being influenced by Jim Hall, Mick Goodrick, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie and Mike Stern and Randy Roos, with whom ...
The Hot Club Quartette: The Hot Club Quartette
by Michael P. Gladstone
To no one's surprise based upon the cover art and instrumentation, this is a genre piece specifically aimed at the evocation of the Django Reinhardt-Stephane Grappelli Hot Club group. There are fourteen tracks of which four are Billy Steele originals, four standards from the era and six songs reflecting the Django-Grappelli playlist, including “Ultra Fox," which ...
Gene Ludwig: Hands On
by Michael P. Gladstone
This is a very likeable B3 album, and notably for people who are not enamored of tenor sax-organ dates. Gene Ludwig, a longtime Pittsburgh musician with a history of 40 years of plugging away at this genre, has pulled out all the “stops." Ludwig has recorded seven sessions including one on Muse in 1979, all with ...
Miami Saxophone Quartet: Live
by Michael P. Gladstone
Nowadays it seems that jazz ensemble saxophone playing is thought of as part of either the marching brass band tradition or the avant-garde. Listening to the Miami Saxophone Quartet reminds me of a truncated version of Supersax. Although the latter group was a five sax unit augmented by trumpet and rhythm that specialized in performing the ...
Joel Frahm with Brad Mehldau: Don't Explain
by Michael P. Gladstone
Saxophonist Joel Frahm's third outing on Palmetto is a showcase for duets with pianist Brad Mehldau. Frahm impressed with his 1999 debut Sorry No Decaf as a neo bopper and I missed his 2000 venture on The Navigator. The studio can get pretty lonely with only two artists performing and we're happy to report that this ...
Carmen Marsico: Sogno
by Michael P. Gladstone
Bearing the same title as the album of a few seasons past — Sogno, by the popular Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli—this is Carmen Marsico's jazz vocal debut. In order to pursue her musical goals, Marsico moved to New York and then Boston from her native Italy and enrolled in the Berklee School of Music. She appeared ...
Issi Rozen: Dark Beauty
by Michael P. Gladstone
After three recordings on Brownstone, guitarist Issi Rozen has released this album on his own label, and it is a lengthy and worthwhile introduction. Most of the 71 minutes are comprised of Rozen's own compositions with a lesser-known Charlie Parker tune, “Segment," and a traditional Israeli song, “Sheharhoret" (the translation of the album's title), are included. ...
Andy Middleton: Reinventing the World
by Michael P. Gladstone
Based upon the packaging, I suspected that this disc would contain avant-garde or at the very least cutting-edge, Knitting Factory-type jazz. There are no liner notes, just photos of the personnel and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler's name staring me in the face. Well, my guess couldn't be further from the truth. Reinventing the World is a well-thought-out, ...
