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The Jazz Ballad Gauntlet: Rebecca Parris and Beat Kaestli
by C. Michael Bailey
bal * lad :noun \'ba-ləd\ A slow popular song that is typically about love. The ballad remains one of the most durable vehicles in any music genre. In jazz, it is a make-or-break format capable of revealing the haves and haves not in the jazz vocals department. There have been ...
Vocal Icon Janis Siegel Releases First Solo Album in Seven Years: "NightSongs"
Over the past four decades, the voice of Janis Siegel, a nine-time Grammy winner and a seventeen-time Grammy nominee, has been an undeniable force in music; a founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, solo artist, producer and arranger, Janis is “about as eclectic in her musical tastes as a pop singer can get,” writes The New ...
Susie Meissner: I’m Confessin’
by C. Michael Bailey
On vocalist Susie Meissner's previous recording, I'll Remember April (Self Produced, 2008), the singer staked out the center of the middle of the road stylistically. Her repertoire was from the most popular sections of The Great American Songbook, dispatched tastefully in her well-balanced high alto. Dedicated to the melody, Meissner is clearly not one given to ...
Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess
By Paul Meyers
Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Snibor; Blue Lantern; In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning; One For
Miss D; Lazy Afternoon; Ménage à Bleu; Just One Of Those Things; My
One And Only Love; Who Cares?; I Cover The Waterfront.
Take Five With Nat Janoff
by AAJ Staff
Meet Nat Janoff:Guitarist, composer and teacher Nat Janoff is a graduate of William Paterson University, with a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance. His debut recording, Looking Through, featuring the rhythm section of world renowned electric bassist, Matthew Garrison, and drummer Gene Lake, put Nat on the map as both a player and ...
Beat Kaestli: Invitation
by C. Michael Bailey
First, there is the name: Beat Kaestli. How hip is that? A native of Switzerland, Kaestli moved to New York, where he was suitably educated in the craft of jazz at the Manhattan School of Music, and ultimately, the Aaron Copland School of Music. Kaestli has a voice of uncommon sweetness and delicacy ...
Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
This is a very smooth outing from Paul Meyers, mixing standards--both the rather ripe ("I Cover The Waterfront") and the lesser-known (Billy Strayhorn's “Snibor")--with Meyers originals as showcases for his acoustic nylon string guitar. “Smooth" should not be taken to mean “smooth jazz": there is just the right amount of edge in the musicians' interaction to ...
Beat Kaestli: Invitation
by Dan Bilawsky
The Great American Songbook is something of a repertoire Bible for jazz vocalists, regardless of whether or not they originally hail from America. Vocalist Beat Kaestli was born in Switzerland, but he made New York his home after arriving to attend the Manhattan School of Music in the early 1990s. Since that time, his music has ...
Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess
by Bruce Lindsay
Guitarist Paul Meyers' stated intention with Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess was to create “a relaxed, straight-ahead jazz CD," and with the assistance of some delightful sax and flute from NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess he has succeeded admirably. The mix of standards and originals is thoughtfully put together and the end result is a ...
Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess
by Raul d'Gama Rose
This record, very simply titled, brings together two fine musicians. One is Paul Meyers, the stylish nylon-string guitarist who adorns the music of Jon Hendricks, and the legendary Frank Wess, a tenor saxophonist and flutist with perhaps the most burnished vocal styles on both instruments. This in itself, achieves a sort of Zen-like Nirvana while soaking ...
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