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Russell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One
by Victor Verney
Russell Malone usually doesn't like to write about his recordings, he says, preferring instead “to let the music speak for itself." However, he makes an exception here to point out that this is his first live recording with his working band, a fact that's a little surprising to learn. Malone goes on to note his gratification ...
Russell Malone: Live at Jazz Standard, Volume One
by C. Michael Bailey
Russell Malone gets his Grant Green freak on.... Guitarist Russell Malone answers his well-received Playground (MaxJazz, 2004) with this, his first live recording, documenting performances at New York's Jazz Standard. Malone has traded recent over-populated groups for his working band, a simple piano trio. The trio, under crack pianist Martin Bejerano's sharp direction, conveys ...
Playground
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2004
Track listing: Your Should Know Better; Blues For Mulgrew; Something To Live For; Sugar Buzz; Playground; Remind Me; We
Russell Malone: Playground
by Jack Bowers
MaxJazz, which has showcased jazz musicians in series devoted to various instruments (piano, horns, vocals), tapped guitarist Russell Malone to launch its String Series—an inspired choice, as Malone is one of the fastest rising stars on the contemporary jazz horizon, a superb technician who plays with exceptional warmth and congeniality. Playground is basically a quartet date ...
Russell Malone: Playground
by Russ Musto
Considering the breadth of his talent, it is somewhat surprising that Russell Malone has recorded somewhat sparingly as a leader. On this, his sixth and arguably best disc to date, he confirms his status as one of the most versatile straight-ahead jazz guitarists playing music today. Malone is at home in a wide range of styles ...
Russell Malone: Playground
by C. Michael Bailey
Russell Malone is a guitarist’s guitarist. He shares with Joe Pass the distinction for being equally a superb accompanist and leader, as evidenced by recordings with Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr., Shirley Horn and Wynton Marsalis—as well as his own recordings. He opens MaxJazz's inaugural String Series with two originals for jazz quartet. “You Should have ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
Dot Com Blues
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Only in It for the Money;
8 Counts for Rita;
Strut;
C.C. Rider;
I Just Wanna Make Love to You;
Mood Indigo;
Over and Over;
Three O'Clock Blues;
Dot Com Blues;
Mr. Johnson;
Tuition Blues;
Since I Met You Baby.
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