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Diane Hoffman: My Little French Dancer
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz vocalist Diane Hoffman's decision to open My Little French Dancer with Magidson and Wrubel's “Gone With the Wind" is indeed a wise one. There are perhaps a dozen or so top echelon jazz singers who have provided a vocal version of this jazz standard, including Anita O'Day, Carmen McRae and a young Betty Carter's unforgettable ...
Debbie Poryes Trio: A Song in Jazz
by Michael P. Gladstone
The release of Debbie Poryes' A Song In Jazz is quite an impressive one for the California pianist. In listening to these tunes mostly from the Great American Songbook, namely the opening showtune, “A Wonderful Guy" from the Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific and the last track, the vastly popular hit “People" from Jule Styne's Funny ...
Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya: Ao Vivo/Live
by Michael P. Gladstone
Although Brazilian pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo has been recording under his own name since 1992, his roots go back to the first wave of Bossa Nova music in the early 1960s when he wrote and accompanied music for singers Vinicius deMoraes, Rita Lee, Carlos Lyra, Elis Regina, Joyce (Silveira Palhano de Jesus) and many others. Ao Vivo/Live ...
Nathan Eklund Group: The Crooked Line
by Michael P. Gladstone
Trumpeterr/flugelhornist Nathan Eklund's The Crooked Line offers a pretty good measure of his quintet's capabilities. Anyone hearing much of this album, without any prior identification, would likely tab this to be straight out of the hallowed Blue Note era of the early-to-mid 1960s. The title track is an attractive post-bop vehicle; the ...
American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center: Eric Comstock Salutes Charles Strouse
by Michael P. Gladstone
Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Harry Allen and Charles Strouse “This Is the Life: Salute to Charles Strouse at 80": American Songbook Series The Allen Room at Lincoln Center, New York City February 6, 2008 Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series offered an eclectic choice of artists this year: Americana rocker Joe ...
Ale Demogli / Hill Greene / Oscar Giunta: 3:30
by Michael P. Gladstone
This guitar trio--occasionally expanding to a quartet--hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3:30 presents a balanced mix of four standards and five originals, including the opening Robin/Ranger “If I Should Lose You," taken up-tempo. Guitarist Ale (Alejandro) Demogli, bassist Hill (Hilliard) Greene and drummer Oscar Giunta make up this unit, with an assist from guest pianist Pepe ...
Dale Fielder Quartet: DFQ Plays The Music of Pepper Adams
by Michael P. Gladstone
Saxophonist Dale Fielder's album is a long overdue tribute to the music of Pepper Adams. Fielder graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and moved to New York in 1980, gaining valuable exposure, recording and forming his own label. Returning to his hometown of Los Angeles in 1988, Fielder continued to gather experience and record. In paying ...
Ed Reed: Love Stories
by Michael P. Gladstone
On the occasion of his first album, singer Ed Reed has quite a story to tell. Originally from Cleveland, but raised in Watts, Reed went to high school with Little Esther Phillips and Bobby Nunn of The Robins ("Smokey Joe's Cafe"). The group shortly became known as The Coasters. The fellow who watched his sister's kids ...
Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil: Tudo Azul
by Michael P. Gladstone
Led by vocalist/pianist/percussionist Susan Pereira, the group Sabor Brasil offers a debut album with the addition of guests including guitarist Romero Lubambo, harmonicist Hendricks Meurkens and trumpeter Claudio Roditi. Founded in 1991 by Pereira and her husband, drummer Vanderlei Pereira, Sabor Brasil has been making itself known at New York clubs like 55 Bar, Zinc and ...
Jessica Molaskey: Sitting in Limbo
by Michael P. Gladstone
Singer Jessica Molaskey's fourth album, Sitting in Limbo, has been well received. She is guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli's wife, and together they have won the New York City Nightlife Award for “Best Musical Duo" in both 2007 and 2008. Molaskey is a very polished vocalist whose specialty is Broadway musicals, currently appearing in ...
