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Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook
by Jack Bowers
Legacy Band? At age ninety-eight, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs--the last remaining member of a legendary group of jazz musicians who defined the big-band era in America and helped expand and sharpen the music's vocabulary--hasn't finished writing his own legacy, which is why this album is subtitled “The Terry Gibbs Songbook." Although best known as ...
Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook
by Edward Blanco
At age 92 years old, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs was still a musical force when he recorded 92 Years Young Jammin' at the Gibbs House (Whaling City Sound, 2017). His son, drummer Gerry Gibbs, paid homage to him with Songs from My Father (Whaling City Sound, 2021) with the Thrasher Dream Trio band. As for this recording ...
The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses
by Pierre Giroux
Harry Allen is a tenor saxophonist's tenor saxophonist with an elegant tone and swinging style in the manner of Scott Hamilton, Lester Young or Ben Webster. He has a well-rounded discography of over 70 releases as a leader and many others as a sideman. Over the course of his prolific career, Allen has appeared with the ...
Scott Hamilton Quartet: At PizzaExpress Live
by Dave Linn
"Cocktail jazz" is a term used to describe a jazz music style often played in upscale, sophisticated settings such as bars, restaurants, and hotels. It is typically characterized by its relaxed and laid-back feel and its use of melodic and harmonically accessible tunes that are pleasant to listen to. The Scott Hamilton Quartet release At PizzaExpress ...
Carol Sloane Live At Birdland
By Carol Sloane
Label: Club44
Released: 2022
Track listing: Havin' Myself A Time; Blue Turning Grey Over You; I Don't Want To Walk Without You; As Long As I Live; Glad To Be Unhappy/I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues; If I Should Lose You; You Were Meant For Me; The Very Thought of You; You're Driving Me Crazy; Two For The Road; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open.
Eric Ineke 75: Swinging, Boppin' and Burnin'
By Eric Ineke
Label: Daybreak
Released: 2022
Track listing: Hershey Bar; I Thought About You;
Ornithology; Easy Living; Thou Swell;
Tangerine;
Eric's Blues;
The Theme;
Jotosco.
From The Pen Of...
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Night Spot; Queen's Pawn; It's A Human Race; Rabbit's Habit; Up In Steve's Room; Why Am I
Blue?; Waltz For Willi; Our Blues; For Your Love; Ol' Bill's Blues; Theme.
Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...
by Jack Bowers
The late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was well-known in western Canada and elsewhere for his brilliance—but as player, not a writer. In fact, according to MacPherson's son Guy, who wrote the excellent liner notes to From the Pen of..., his father wrote barely a dozen or so original compositions, almost all of which are included on ...
Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...
by Pierre Giroux
Tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was an original. Although he was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, he moved to Vancouver early in his career where he remained throughout his working life. He began to build his reputation as a Lester Young-influenced player, and in the mid '70s recorded his first trio album for West End Records with ...
The Jazz Professors: Blues and Cubes
by Jack Bowers
Yes, the Florida-based Jazz Professors, as befits the name, are smart—but don't let that throw you. They also swing in the best jazz tradition, even though their fourth album, Blues and Cubes, was inspired by the art of Pablo Picasso. Unlike Picasso's works, however, there is scant abstraction here; the Professors embody far more bop than ...
