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Enrico Granafei: It's Hard to Say Goodbye
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With It's Hard to Say Goodbye, multi-talented Italian guitarist and harmonica player, Enrico Granafei and a group of standouts offer eleven Latin-flavored jazz selections. The effort, recorded over an extended period, also features two artists who have unfortunately passed--trumpeter Claudio Roditi and pianist, Mike Longo. Granafei has dedicated the album to them and to the memory ...
Music Soup: Upbeat Mood
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Upbeat Mood from Music Soup, comprised of Athens, Greece-based guitarist Nestor Dimopoulos, Hammond B-3 organist Evgenia Karlafti and drummer Vagelis Kotzabasis, delivers eight enjoyable and upbeat swinging selections. Seven are originals from either Dimopoulos, Karlafti alone, or co-written. There is intelligent playing and fine soloing throughout. “Korean Apartment" opens things and is a ...
Matt Booth: Sun Prints
by Troy Dostert
Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a ...
Bill Banfield: Take Time To Listen
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A prolific composer, educator, author and guitarist, Bill Banfield's Take Time to Listen is a bravura in-concert solo performance, comprised of 16 pop and rock classics, and thoughtful Banfield originals. The session is a display of virtuosity, taste and improvisational ability. “This Time," the opener, is an extended rhapsody over a droning ostinato. ...
Jimbo Ross: Jazz Passion & Satin Latin
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Jazz Passion & Satin Latin from elite viola player Jimbo Ross offers a dozen selections drawn across a wide array of resources. From tried-and-true GASsers, to more obscure, but, fascinating, jazz compositions, all seasoned with Latin flavorings, Ross and his compadres deliver an invigorating session. The album opens auspiciously with Ross in viola-guitar ...
Veronica Thomas: Veronica Thomas They Say It's Wonderful
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Broadway musicals and cinema soundtrack songs have been full-bloom gardens for material harvested by singers and instrumentalists. From the romantic to the dramatic to the humorous and novelty, artists have had the buona fortuna of such a vast treasury. Partnering with the insight of producer John Proulx, (himself a marvelous singer/pianist/composer) and a cadre of LA ...
Melinda Rose & Frenchy Romero: I'm On My Way
by Dan Bilawsky
A co-led date from vocalist Melinda Rose and pianist Frenchy Romero seemed to be preordained. The two grew up mere blocks away from each other in Miami, connected as teens and bonded immediately over a love for jazz, and developed a strong rapport at a weekly jam session. As their lives moved forward, they stayed in ...
Suzanne Pittson: Emerge Dancing
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Emerge Dancing is a fascinatingly intriguing album from New York vocalist (and pianist/composer) Suzanne Pittson and her husband, pianist Jeff Pittson. Primarily a duo album, the pair is joined on a trio of tracks by their son, violist Evan Pittson. Team Pittson has delivered a buffet of jazz, pop, rare-find and well-known standard fare that emerges ...
Lisa Rich: Long As You're Living
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With Long As You're Living ace jazz vocalist m: Lisa Rich and a team of New York A-listers soar across a dozen tracks of superior jazz. The album, her first since Highwire (Tritone Records, 2019) is a tour de force of musical talents and it once again validates Rich as one of our finest vocal artists. ...
The Paul Carlon Quintet: Blues for Vita The Paul Carlon Quintet
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Blues for Vita provides listeners with an outstanding eight-selection presentation that is a modernized throwback to the days when tenor-trumpet quintets such as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan's, and Cannonball Adderley's ensembles were the mainstays of jazz labels such as Riverside, Columbia, and Blue Note. The album offers a well-produced mix of straight-ahead, ...
