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Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza Band—Paraphrase (Yeah-Yeah, 2011) This is an interesting young quartet with a lineup of Blostein on alto saxophone, Sperrazza on drums, Jacob Garchick on trombone and Geoff Kraly on electric bass. The rather unique setting gets an interesting sound with the saxophone and trombone on the front line without piano or guitar to support ...
Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (Self-Released, 2010)
Keyboardist and composer Peter Hum leads a dual life as both a journalist and blogger and a jazz musician. His new album has a deep narrative sense, like a prose writer linking together a set of interconnected short stories. He is joined on this album by Kenji Omae on tenor saxophone, Nathan Cepelinski on alto and ...
Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (Rounder, 2011)
Organist, occasional guitarist and singer Gregg Allman has seen a fair amount of ups and down during his lengthy career, none more serious than the serious health problems that required a liver transplant last year. But Allman is nothing if not a survivor, and delving deeply into the blues he has recorded an excellent album that ...
Mario Pavone - Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po (Playscape, 2010)
Bassist Mario Pavone has been one of the leading lights of the New York creative music scene for many years now, whether as a leader or as a sideman in the likes of the sorely missed Thomas Chapin Trio. He's assembled an excellent band here with Tony Malaby tenor and soprano saxophone, Jimmy Greene on tenor ...
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (Blue Note, 1964)
Like a hothouse orchid, trumpeter Lee Morgan reveled in the competitive Philadelphia jazz scene of the 1940's and 50's developing a prodigious talent that saw him hitting the road professionally at a mere eighteen years of age. Morgan's career had some down points and an undeniably tragic end, but when he was on and in sympathetic ...
Kermit Driscoll - Reveille
Bassist Kermit Driscoll has played in the band of the idiosyncratic guitarist Bill Frisell on many occasions, so it's nice to hear them with him in the leadership position. Also joining them are the up and coming pianist Kris Davis and Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. The music still retains the heartland vibe of a Frisell record, ...
Joe Lovano Us5 - Bird Songs (Blue Note, 2011)
Multi saxophonist Joe Lovano began his unique two drummer band Us5 a few years ago, releasing their first unsettled album on Blue Note last year. Touring and greater familiarity with each other has led the band to the music of Charlie Parker, not a tribute exactly, but an exploration of Parker themes brought into the present ...
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (Ojc, 1956)
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was beginning an awe inspiring burst of creativity when this album was recorded on June 22, 1956 in the company of Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max Roach on drums. Developing some of the thematic material that he would continue to explore for the rest of his career, ...
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)
When I bought this disc many years ago, the music manager of the now defunct Borders in Colonie, NY told me a story that for this record date Gordon had brought a number of complicated originals to the studio. Pianist Bud Powell was having none of it however, and in the end the album focused on ...
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Impulse! 1965)
Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane's “humble offering to Him" has become one of the most revered albums in jazz and indeed all of American music. A deeply spiritual man who claimed to have experienced a religious epiphany that allowed him to cast aside alcohol and drugs and fully commit himself to a musical and spiritual quest ...
