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Bill Cunliffe Sextet: How My Heart Sings
by Michael P. Gladstone
On this record subtitled “The Music of Earl Zindars," Bill Cunliffe pays tribute to the composer who wrote the jazz standard “How My Heart Sings," which began life as the exclusive property of Bill Evans in 1956. Throughout a lengthy friendship and business relationship, Evans championed a number of Zindars' songs, such as “Elsa," on his ...
Gilad Barkan: Modulation
by Michael P. Gladstone
Consider the gazillion jazz piano trio recordings available to the unsuspecting public and the time and effort it takes to breakthrough as a major pianist/composer. My first listen to the debut recording by this Bostonian (by way of Israel) made me think very much of the Keith Jarrett Standards Trio per the intensity and interaction of ...
Madeline Eastman: The Speed of Life
by Michael P. Gladstone
My suggestion for the cover of jazz vocalist Madeline Eastman's next album is a shot of her poised to dive into an uncharted body of water. This is one lady who is not afraid to take chances with existing material and even from note to note. The San Francisco singer has recorded five albums for her ...
Dennis Bell Jazz NY: Then & Now
by Michael P. Gladstone
This album is subtitled A Jazz Retrospect of New York City's High School of Music & Art. Every member of this quartet graduated from these two schools in the late 1950s or mid 1990s, having since individually pursued careers in music and education. The collective resume for these players is enough to raise a few musical ...
Jackie Allen: The Men In My Life
by Michael P. Gladstone
One of my great pleasures of the past few years was discovering singer Jackie Allen's debut, Never Let Me Go, in the discount bins. So it was nice to see some buzz on her Naxos recording last season, as well as a friendly reception for this album over the past few months. She's got a warm ...
Irene Kral: Where is Love?
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's really quite amazing to read anything about the late jazz vocalist Irene Kral. I've never seen anything less than superlative adjectives applied to her all-too-brief career. The younger sister of singer-pianist Roy Kral (Jackie & Roy) who died in July 2002, she spent some time with Maynard Ferguson's band in 1957 and Herb Pomeroy's organization ...
Afromantra: Alignment
by Michael P. Gladstone
This New York City-based combo is a self-proclaimed new entry in the Latin jazz marketplace in the Big Apple, “mixing post bop with Afro-Cuban rhythms." After hearing this group's efforts, I think that it would be more at home at The Knitting Factory playing avant-garde jazz than at a Latin/world showcase like S.O.B.'s. Led by Chilean-Cuban ...
Helen Merrill: Music Makers
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz vocalist Helen Merrill doesn't record that often and when she does, it is often an unpredictable session. For her last major label work in 2000, Jelena Ana Milcactic A.K.A. Helen Merrill, recorded music based upon her Croatian heritage; it was quite a project but somehow eluded me. Music Makers is a reissue of a 1986 ...
Jay Thomas: Blues for JW
by Michael P. Gladstone
With a multi-horn specialist like Jay Thomas, you get a lot more bang for your buck, since his main axe is the trumpet/flugelhorn (a la Ira Sullivan, Australia's James Morrison and Benny Carter). Thomas is a Seattle-based musician who has appeared on sixty recorded sessions. This, his eighth album as a leader, was recorded at Tula's ...
Shelley Neill: Envisioning Blue
by Michael P. Gladstone
I approached Shelley Neill's latest with very positive expectations after reading all positive reviews for her previous work ( Diaphonous Apertures, 1996; Music Sweet Music, 1999; and The Blues Run Through It, 2001). Neill is an acquired taste: in some of her performances are passable, some are pretty decent and others are irritating. ...
