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Alan Pasqua / Dave Carpenter / Peter Erskine: Standards
by Michael P. Gladstone
This jazz trio recording consists of pianist Alan Pasqua, bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Peter Erskine. An ongoing cooperative trio with two other releases to its credit--2000's Live at Rocco and 2002's Badlands, both released on Erkine's Fuzzy Music label, this largely intimate session was recorded with only two KMF stand-up tube microphones. The ...
Peter Erskine Tim Hagans & The Norrbotten Big Band: Worth The Wait
by Michael P. Gladstone
The title of this album, Worth The Wait, is a specific reference for these two old pals, drummer Peter Erskine and trumpeter Tim Hagans, to join in one recording session with the Norrbotten Big Band. The origin of the title dates back to a 1974 musical meeting when Erskine was the drummer for the Stan Kenton ...
James Silberstein: Expresslane
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's unclear why a guitar-featured album with a bunch of solid horn players on hand engenders feelings of nervousness--especially when they are pros like tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, trumpeter Jim Rotundi and trombonist Steve Davis. From the opening bars of Cole Porter's “From This Moment On," on James Silberstein's Expresslane, horn riffs are heard alongside guitar ...
John Chin: Blackout Conception
by Michael P. Gladstone
John Chin is another new piano face, rightly placed on Fresh Sound's New Talent division. Born in Seoul, South Korea, but educated in California at Cal State and then the University of North Texas, he then relocated to New York to study with pianist Kenny Barron at Rutgers University in New Jersey. A major portion of ...
Frank Macchia: Landscapes
by Michael P. Gladstone
Tenor saxophonist/composer/arranger Frank Macchia has made a significant album that follows-up his Grammy-nominated Emotions (Cacophony, 2006). Again utilizing the strings of the Prague Orchestra under the direction of Adam Klemens, Macchia has submitted another ambitious work to the public. Listening to Landscapes, the two things that come to mind are film scoring and the ...
Elli Fordyce: Something Still Cool with Jim Malloy
by Michael P. Gladstone
Elli Fordyce's Something Still Cool evokes an era when, if you shook a tree, several female jazz singers would fall out. The preponderance and preference for cool woman singers in the 1950s is the raison d'être that has eluded Fordyce over a multi-decade series of misfortunes that have only made this debut album available now.
Libby York: Here With You
by Michael P. Gladstone
Chicago-born Libby York's third album, Here With You, is an expression of her jazz vocal techniques, with more than a little of Chris Connor and June Christy in her delivery. York goes right out on a limb by challenging Peggy Lee's “I Love Being Here With You" as an opener, a tune also associated with Chris ...
Taeko: One Love
by Michael P. Gladstone
Say what you will, jazz vocalist Taeko (Fukao)'s One Love is bright and breezy. With a slight trace of accented English, she navigates through eleven mostly mid and up-tempo tunes. Born in Kyoto, Japan, Taeko moved to New York in 1998 to begin her musical experiences by studying with jazz/gospel vocalist Juanita ...
Tangria Jazz Group: Tangria Jazz Group
by Michael P. Gladstone
On their third release, the self-titled Tangria Jazz Group continues to impress. With lots of positive press from the San Francisco Bay Area this trio, led by drummer/composer Sheryl Mebane with keyboardist Simon Rochester and bassist Justin Hellman, is thoroughly interactive and entertaining. Founded in 1997, Tangria Jazz Group has evolved with its most ...
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is always room for one more piano trio when the leader, pianist Marc Copland, comes out of the modal school of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. Considering his choice of sidemen and their employers, bassist Gary Peacock (Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio) and drumming legend Paul Motian (Bill Evans's renowned Riverside Trio with Scott LaFaro). In ...
