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Stuff Smith: Hot Stuff
by Florence Wetzel
After a long career in the United States, the great jazz violinist Stuff Smith (1909-67) moved to Copenhagen in 1965. Many recordings exist from this fertile period in Smith's career. The new CD Hot Stuff is a reissue of the previously out-of-print Live at Montmarte , recorded in 1965, combined with four tracks from Hot Violins ...
Mike Wofford & Holly Hofmann
by Elliott Simon
Mike Wofford Trio Live at Athenaeum Jazz Capri 2004 Pianist Mike Wofford's trio allows this in demand vocal accompanist and arranger to stretch out and lead the way with a swinging rhythm section that includes master drummer Victor Lewis and top NYC bassist Peter Washington. Live at Athenaeum Jazz captures ...
Ed Neumeister Quartet: New Standards
by Elliott Simon
A mainstay for leaders from Dixieland through swing, the T-bone never quite recovered from bop, the unfortunate result being that inventive trombone-led combos have been few and far between. However, one listen to New Standards from trombonist Ed Neumeister's quartet, makes it clear that things needn't have turned out the way they did. With ...
Leslie Pintchik: So Glad To Be Here
by Elliott Simon
Pianist Leslie Pintchik and her bassist/husband, Scott Hardy, have invited percussionist Satoshi Takeishi into their cozy fold for a distinctive staging of the traditional jazz piano trio. The recipe succeeds, surprisingly well at times, as Takeishi adds his singular voice to Pintchik's melodic playing on So Glad to Be Here. Although the Kern/Hammerstein opener, ...
Scott Robinson & the Emil Viklicky Trio: Summertime
by Jeff Stockton
Scott Robinson has been affected a bit by the Roland Kirk syndrome. His interest in and ability to play just about every saxophone ever invented--and some that haven't--has obscured his talent to listeners more comfortable with musicians that can be identified by a single instrument, in spite of being very active recently both as a leader ...
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 ...
Jimmy Smith: Retrospective
by Jeff Stockton
In over four hours of music spread across four discs, this collection demonstrates how Jimmy Smith revolutionized the Hammond B-3 as a jazz instrument of expressiveness and versatility, both as a sideman and as a leader. The usual Blue Note stars are here: Lou Donaldson's alto sax illuminates “Summertime" and cries the blues on “All Day ...
Nicholas Payton & Sonic Trance: Live in New York 1.24.04
by Jeff Stockton
On the surface, Nicholas Payton's Sonic Trance is a fusion band. The leader occasionally tricks out his horn with effects, pianist Scott Kinsey moves over to electric keyboard from time to time, and percussionist Daniel Sadownick does his best to establish an Agharta vibe on congas. But there is no electric guitar in Sonic Trance, and ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band in Morristown, NJ
by Daniel Kassell
Quite by surprise The Preservation Hall Jazz Band sold out the restored Community Theatre on Morristown, New Jersey's historic South Street, December 3rd, 2004 with an evening billed as “Creole Christmas". Beginning with excerpts of a video documentary made for PBS television in 2000 the renowned Louis Armstrong told us that these guys and this ...
Stephanie Nakasian & Hod O'Brien: Visitors from Virginia
by Nick Catalano
Many years ago one of my writer friends put me on to a jazz singer who, he said, was terrific. I went to Zinno's (now defunct) in the Village and immediately saw that my friend certainly knew his singers. Stephanie Nakasian was raised in Bronxville N.Y. studying piano and violin while singing in church choirs and ...
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