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Michael Moore: Floater & White Widow
by Kurt Gottschalk
Jewels and Binoculars Floater Ramboy 2004 (2000) With a reputation as a brilliant songwriter who can't sing, Bob Dylan is no doubt up there with Cole Porter and the Gershwin brothers as the most oft interpreted pop bards of the 20th century. The Byrds and Joan Baez owe their careers ...
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners & Monk 'Round the World
by Riel Lazarus
The path by which legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk rose to infamy was a long and trying one. So unique and progressive were Monk's gifts that it took the jazz community what now seems like an eternity to catch on to his brilliance. But all that's history, leaving us now to ruminate upon each of ...
Susie Ibarra and Mephista: Folkloriko & Entomological Reflections
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
As a composer, improviser, bandleader or member, drummer-percussionist Susie Ibarra displays a holistic approach to music, playing her parts to support the larger musical vision. Two recent and divergent recordings showcase her broad musical palate. Susie Ibarra Folkloriko Tzadik 2004 Folkloriko , Ibarra's latest as a leader, opens with “Anitos," ...
Silvano and Breyer-Grell Reinterpret Standards
by Elliott Simon
In the fluid landscape of female jazz vocalists where divas flow between jazz and pop, new releases from both Melody Breyer-Grell and Judi Silvano are all about jazz. Both are well known to NYC club goers, Breyer-Grell for her association with the late vocal jazz mecca Chez Suzette and more recently with Triad; Silvano for diverse ...
Paul Dunmall Times Three
by A. Henkin
Paul Dunmall is the typical British musician: eclectic, capable on several instruments and full of wonder for the improvised form. In one crucial way he is different from Brits who preceded him: he refuses to be underrecorded and releases records at a frightening pace and on different labels with different projects. All feature ...
Warren Vach
by Celeste Sunderland
Warren Vaché Dream Dancing Arbors Jazz 2004 Cornetist Warren Vaché brought two pals along on his fancy night out on the town, or in other words his new album Dream Dancing. Pianist Bill Charlap and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen join Vaché's trio rounded out by Dennis Irwin on ...
Peter Br
by Clifford Allen
Peter Brötzmann is probably more famous (or infamous) for his lung power and ability to break a rib blowing a bass saxophone than for his ability to direct a truly cooperative group and extend a multitude of concepts over several bands. A contemporary of and heir to Frank Wright, power is not out of the question ...
Kalaparush and The Light: Morning Song & The Moment
by Clifford Allen
With this latest incarnation of The Light, the moniker bestowed on most of reedman Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre's ensembles over the years, the sparse moodiness of AACM “little instruments" and side-long suites has been replaced by a more ebullient and lyrical spirituality contained in a crack tenor-tuba-drums trio. This particular version of The Light was formed as ...
Kurt Jarnberg: Down Memory Lane & Who Can I Turn To?
by Jack Bowers
Kurt Jarnberg Down Memory Lane & Who Can I Turn To? KJR Records 1972 & 1996I can't quite remember how I was “introduced" to Swedish trombonist/trumpeter Kurt Jarnberg but I'm reasonably sure it had something to do with the internet. Whatever the circumstances, Kurt was kind enough to ...
Four Vocal LPRs: Ella, Blossom, Cole, Alexandria
by David Rickert
Freddie Cole “Waiter, Ask the Man To Play the Blues" Verve 1964 Add Freddie Cole to the list of musicians with better-known and more talented siblings. You might have heard of his brother Nat, who was both a top-notch jazz pianist and a talented pop singer, and Freddie Cole falls ...
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