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Benny Lackner Trio: Not the Same
by Jeff Stockton
Pianist Benny Lackner's conception of the jazz trio places his music somewhere between the Bad Plus and Matthew Shipp's nu bop, with a smattering of Brad Mehldau in the crevices. His entirely original but vaguely familiar compositions serve as rest stops that space apart his trio's flashy, attention-grabbing covers. He and his band ...
Ruth Young: This Is Always
by Michael P. Gladstone
There was a certain sense of nagging familiarity as I listened to the first track of this jazz vocal album. As soon as I heard the first notes of “Whatever Possessed Me," it all fell into place. This is an album of all Chet Baker-associated tunes. Ruth Young was Baker's main squeeze from 1973-1982 and an ...
David Gibson: The Path to Delphi
by John Kelman
Some jazz fans are constantly on the lookout for innovation and look down their noses at albums that are less than revolutionary--or even evolutionary, for that matter. But the truth is that within the broader purview of jazz there's plenty of room for works that are less ambitious but no less engaging. Sometimes a good story ...
Donald Harrison: Free Style
by Keiran Smalley
Coming across the music of Donald Harrison was something of a happy accident for me. I was not really listening to our local jazz radio station late one evening; my thoughts were wandering elsewhere. Suddenly this great tune came on. It consisted of a stripped-down funky rhythm overlaid with a simple yet insistent alto line which ...
Ralph Sutton with Michael Silva: It's So Nice It Must Be Illegal: Recorded 1988 Live in France (Volume One)
by Eric J. Iannelli
Since he was born in Hamburg, Missouri in 1922, it's apt in a way that stride pianist Ralph Sutton should have this posthumous album released on a Hamburg label--this one is the original, so to speak, located a few thousand miles away in the north of Germany. As Sutton aficionados will be quick to point out, ...
Loren Stillman: How Sweet It Is
by Budd Kopman
Occasionally a totally new CD finds its way to the player, and from the music's very first notes, just totally entrances both mind and body. These magical times are rare, but this is really what jazz is about. Furthermore, a CD that manages to make this kind of impression almost always remains able to over time, ...
Claudio Roditi: Three for One (341)
by Rico Cleffi
While listening to the first track on Three for One (341) by Claudio Roditi, Klaus Ignatzek, and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, I stopped to check the credits to find out the name of the drummer who was playing so delicately. I quickly remembered that there was no drummer, but I thought I heard some slight brushwork, anyway. And ...
Ken Peplowski: Easy to Remember
by Elliott Simon
Ken Peplowski is perhaps the best of an albeit too short list of baby-boomer swing clarinetists. On Easy to Remember he adeptly doubles on tenor and fronts a quintet of four like-minded musicians who similarly value musicianship and melody. Pianist Ted Rosenthal and guitarist Joe Cohn share frontline duties, while bassist Joe Fitzgerald and drummer Jeff ...
Light in the Dark
Label: Nagel Heyer Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Light in the Dark, No Hesitation, Alfitude, Rapaz de Bem, Waltz for Mike, Nightbird, The Natural Bridge, Summer Blues, Gypsy Groove, Placid Mood, This is For You, Claudio, Time Will Tell, Amor da Nada
Free Style
Label: Nagel Heyer Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Hand Jive; Free Style; New Hope; Get Your Swerve; So What; Rock Song; Well You Needn't; Iko Iko; Free to Be; Heroes; Candlelight
