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Roy Agee

Sofia Goodman: Secrets of the Shore

by Jack Bowers
August 21, 2023

Secrets of the Shore, Nashville-based drummer Sophia Goodman's second album, is thematic, and its essential element is water. Goodman wrote or co-wrote the ten numbers, each of which is designed to induce in the listener's mind some aspect of water, from placid to turbulent, gentle to intense. As is true of all thematic ...

Soul Serenade-The Gloria Lynne Project

By Diane Marino

Label: M&M Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT 4:35 Billy May / Milton Raskin / Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. / BMI 2. NOTHING EVER CHANGES MY LOVE FOR YOU 4:59 Jack Segal / Marvin Fischer / Fred Fischer / Sony / ATV Tunes LLC / ASCAP 3. SOUL SERENADE 4:34 Curtis Ousley / Luther Dixon / EMI Longitude Music / BMI 4. FOR YOU 3:30 Joe Burke /Al Dubin / Warner Bros Inc. / ASCAP 5. BLUE GARDENIA 5:07 Bob Russell / Lester Lee / Warner Bros & Harrison Music Group / ASCAP 6. THE JAZZ IN YOU 5:31 Chris Towns / Luther Dixon / Songs of Universal Inc. / BMI 7. HAPPY SHOES 4:33 Bobby Scott / Richard Alhert / Amber Leigh Music Inc. / ASCAP 8. SWEET PUMPKIN 3:47 Dr. Ronnell Bright / THGIRB Music / ASCAP 9. OUT OF THIS WORLD 4:05 Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer / Edwin Morris H Co Inc. / Chappell Morris ASCAP 10. SPEAKING OF HAPPINESS 3:52 Jimmy Radcliffe / Buddy Scott / Lucky Duck Music / Songs of Media Creature Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc. / BMI 11. THAT’S NO JOKE 4:08 Joe Bailey / Rightsong Music Inc. / BMI 12. HE NEEDS ME 4:57 Arthur Hamilton / Mark VII LTD / ASCAP 13. LET’S TAKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALK 3:27 Irving Berlin / Berlin Irving Music Corp / ASCAP 14. SERENADE IN BLUE 6:14 Harry Warren / Mack Gordon / Warner Bros Music Corp / ASCAP

The Jazz in You

April 14, 2018

Album: Soul Serenade-The Gloria Lynne Project
By Diane Marino
Label: M&M Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 05:31

Chris McDonald: A Big (Band) Swinging Christmas!

by Jack Bowers
November 25, 2017

A Big (Band) Swinging Christmas! is at least the tenth holiday album recorded by the peerless arranger Chris McDonald's impressive Jazz Orchestra--but the first one whose title has been amplified by an exclamation mark. Could it be that this one is extra-special? That's hard to say, as the albums that preceded it have all been remarkably ...

No Pews Required: Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2014

A glance at the name and song titles on Chris McDonald's new album might lead to an assumption that this is a Christian manifesto masquerading as big-band jazz, when in fact the reverse is true--McDonald, a superlative arranger, happens to be a man of faith who uses Christian themes as the basis for some of the ...

Nashville Jazz Orchestra: It Ain't Necesssarily So

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2014

This splendid debut recording by the Nashville Jazz Orchestra is subtitled “New Twists on Gershwin Classics." No argument there, starting with the picturesque “Cuban Overture" from 1932 and encompassing a trio of songs from the folk opera Porgy and Bess, which premiered three years later. Also on the bill of fare are the standards “But Not ...

One For Maynard

By The Loudhorns

Label: Loud Conversation Pieces
Released: 2009
Track listing: Give It One; La Fiesta; Bohemian Rhapsody; Foreign Correspondent; I Wish; Left Bank Express; Superbone Meets the Bad Man; Fly Away From Here; Birdland.