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Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
by Roger Crane
Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, Carmen McRae Marian McPartland’s Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz radio series profiling various musicians has been popular for 25 years and has featured over 300 musical guests. These four segments – two previously issued on CD and two new ones – make a valuable addition to this ongoing NPR series. For ...
Patricia Barber: Verse
by Roger Crane
Verse is Patricia Barber's seventh album since her 1989 debut, Split, on the little known and poorly distributed Floyd Records, named after her musician father, Floyd Barber. Her second album, A Distortion of Love , was released on the Verve Antilles label and did not appear until three years later, but it brought the Chicago-based singer ...
Cindy Scott: Major to Minor
by Roger Crane
Houston-based vocalist Cindy Scott strikes gold her first time out. Major to Minor is an exceptional debut album, a happy collaboration between an exciting new singer and a cadre of superior jazz artists. This CD is somewhat of a culmination of material that Scott developed with pianist/arranger Gary Norian and other musicians at a steady gig ...
Dragana: I Still Feel You
by Roger Crane
Dragana has a last name, of course. But we folks in the States have trouble with a pile of consonants, so she is simply “Dragana,” a unique name for a unique singer. This lovely and talented young lady was born in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) and her interest in music was realized at the early age of ...
Lisa Hindmarsh: Lost in a Summer Night
by Roger Crane
Lisa Hindmarsh is probably a new name to you but, hopefully, not for long. This exceptional young singer currently lives in Pittsburgh (well, actually in McMurray, a few miles to the south). Lost in a Summer Night is her second CD, following last year’s debut, Now I Know. She is, seemingly, at her best when digging ...
Jane Monheit: In the Sun
by Roger Crane
Poor Jane Monheit. She violates two major commandments of jazz: thou shalt not become popular and thou shalt not be pretty. This combination -- together with her youth -- has evidently created suspicion (and maybe “sour grapes”) in the minds of some jazz fans, critics and even a few musicians. After all, jazz performers must have ...
Anna Callahan: My Ideal
by Roger Crane
To a jazz writer (or any jazz fan) there is little as exciting as discovering fresh unheralded talent. Which brings me to a favorite hyphenate, singer-trumpeter-composer-arranger Anna Callahan. Her debut CD, My Ideal, is not just good, it is surprisingly excellent. Perhaps, like me, you often wonder when you will, once again, experience what Whitney Balliett ...
Julie Kelly: Kelly Sings Christy
by Roger Crane
The likable and talented Julie Kelly has been a fixture on the West Coast scene for many years. Thou Swell - Kelly Sings Christy is her sixth recording and is arguably her best. And, since she is a most consistent vocalist, that is high praise. Recording this tribute is a blue ribbon concept since her voice ...
Tierney Sutton: Something Cool
by Roger Crane
I don’t ordinarily drink with strangers, I most usually drink alone,” states the lonely (and probably faded) lady in Billy Barnes’ masterful song, “Something Cool.” Tennessee Williams could have inspired this Blanche Dubois like heroine and it takes a singer with a talent for language, prosody and pacing to perform this story song convincingly. Tierney Sutton ...
Karrin Allyson: In Blue
by Roger Crane
Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Well, maybe, but it also implies conforming to high standards and dependability. In Blue is Karrin Allyson's eighth Concord album and every one of those eight is a topflight jazz vocal album. The “In Blue" concept is a perfect idea for Allyson because her ...
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