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Avram Fefer & Bobby Few: Kindred Spirits & Heavenly Places
by Andrew Velez
Departing from their regular policy of presenting new faces, Jazz Gallery recently reunited keyboard master Bobby Few with the boundless energy of reedman Avram Fefer for an evening celebrating a pair of new duo releases. When they first began playing together in Paris in the early '90s, Few was best-known as a member of the Center ...
Eldar & Hiromi: Eldar & Brain
by Brian P. Lonergan
Eldar Eldar Sony Classical 2005 One of the questions provoked by prodigies is whether their music has an emotional resonance informed by life experience. In other words, does the prodigy have something to say yet? Elsewhere in the jazz press, Kyrgyzstan native Eldar Djangirov has already been ...
Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio
by Joel Roberts
Hank Jones For My Father Justin Time 2005 Hank Jones, who celebrates his 87th birthday this month, is in the midst of one of the most productive periods of his long, distinguished career. Following last year's critically acclaimed outing with the Great Jazz Trio (his final session with ...
Russ Johnson and Sean Jones: Save Big and Gemini
by Brian P. Lonergan
Russ Johnson Save Big Omnitone 2005 “Saguache, the opening tune on trumpeter Russ Johnson's album Save Big, might be called a “WPA track--"worth the price of admission. It's a laid-back groove that evolves beyond feel-good into a feel-great exchange between Johnson and his partner-in-sublime, altoist John O'Gallagher. Along ...
Sonny Rollins: Worktime & The Sound of Sonny
by Javier AQ Ortiz
The following recordings represent stations in the mid-50s...-as vital a period in Sonny Rollins' career as any as much of his reputation was built upon this period. The earliest of the two finds Rollins wondering whether he could perform after kicking his heroin habit, signalling his return to the jazz scene after rehab; the latter has ...
Michael Bisio and Bob Nell: Connections and Soft & Bronze
by AAJ Staff
Michael Bisio Quartet Connections CIMP 2005 Originally from New York State, Bisio has been a vital fixture on the Seattle scene for three decades. With over a half dozen highly recommended sessions as leader, his work has been likened to David Izenzon, Charlie Haden and Mingus and for ...
Michael Bisio & Avram Fefer: Connections & Painting Breath, Stoking Fire
by Derek Taylor
What's that old adage... when it rains, it pours? With metaphorical water this refreshing we should all be thankful. Seattle-based bassist Michael Bisio takes part in a pair of projects that add substantially to his existing folio. The releases also mark a recording renascence for Fefer who's kept a relatively low profile since his last date ...
More Verve Vocalists: New LPRs
by David Rickert
Ella Fitzgerald Hello, Dolly! Verve 2005 (1964) There's an odd bit of trivia contained in this album. The biggest hit from the record, Ella's version of the Beatles' “Can't By Me Love, shows how widespread the influence of rock and roll became (which eventually spelled the downfall of ...
Dallas Christian Jazz Band: He's Everything to Me & Christmas with the DCJB
by Jack Bowers
The Dallas Christian Jazz Band, formed in 1994 to “praise God through instrumental music, produced its first CD, He's Everything to Me, four years later, one year before releasing Christmas with the DCJB. A third album, Sermonette, was recorded in 2001-03 and reviewed here last month. As these are earlier recordings, the difference in the level ...
Shout Factory Strikes Gold in Bethlehem Vault
by Charlie B. Dahan
Shout Factory begins its Bethlehem reissue program with three of jazz's true stalwarts and true originals. One of the recordings contains a collection of John Coltrane's recordings on two compact discs. The other two are Duke Ellington's Duke Ellington Presents, originally released in 1956, and Charles Mingus' East Coasting, which was released right after in 1957. ...
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