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Emerald City Jazz Orchestra: Come Rain or Come Shine
by Jack Bowers
A rule of thumb for any artistic endeavor is that a sequel is seldom as good as the original. The qualifier “seldom must be used because there are occasional exceptions to the rule. As luck would have it, here comes one now--the Emerald City Jazz Orchestra's remarkable followup to its debut album, Alive and Swingin'! (SMP ...
Buddy Catlett: Here Comes Buddy Catlett
by Mark Sabbatini
Buddy Catlett is a snapshot of everything that's right and wrong with jazz today. A player with legends for more than fifty years--and supposedly Count Basie's favorite bassist--he's currently gigging as a sideman in a Seattle club on Thursday nights. Such unpretentiousness and enduring passion for the craft is what makes so many longtime players so ...
For Real
By Jim Cutler
Label: Pony Boy Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Second and Blanchard, For Real, Another New Beginning, Last Boat to Freedom, The Schweetie, Norma Jeanne, You Go To My Head, Mookie's Secret Revenge, Alan Weight Speaking, Twilight Dawned, Thumper, Get in the Game.
The Jim Cutler Quartet: For Real
by Michael P. Gladstone
For its second outing, the Jim Cutler Quartet delivers twelve tracks, of which all but one are original compositions—mostly from Cutler, with two from pianist Brian Olendorf and one from bassist Philip Demaree. The personnel for this Seattle-area group is the same as on its 2002 debut, JCQ. The music presented on For Real ...
Easy Walker
By Larry Fuller
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Groove Yard,
2. In Like Flynn,
3. Hymne a L' Amour,
4. Ray's Idea
5. Easy Walker,
6. Caravan,
7. Compassion
8. Honey Suckle Rose,
9. Consider,
10. Candy's Blues.
Larry Fuller Trio: Easy Walker
by Jason West
If I were a musician blessed with talent and the motivation required to fully develop it, then I would be faced with an infinite number of choices upon entering the recording studio. Able to play almost anything, what would I choose? Luckily, being in a group with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton and Larry Fuller would simplify ...
H.B. Radke & the Jet City Swingers: Live!
by Jack Bowers
This is hardly Jazz, but like much of the neoswing music being heard these days, it’s a lot of fun. The album cover says Live!, so we’ll have to concede the point, even though it’s hard to tell whether the “audience” is real or electronically created. Whichever the case, the applause is wellearned, as H.B. Radke ...
Lance Buller and the Monarchs: Hipsters' Paradise
by Jack Bowers
More nouveau swing courtesy of Pony Boy Records, one of the West Coast’s leading purveyors of same. The headliners this time around are trumpeter / vocalist Lance Buller and the Monarchs who pay the usual respects to the “three Louis” (Armstrong, Jordan, Prima) while adding a few spices of their own to the mix and even ...
