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Ben Sidran: Talking Jazz - An Oral History
by Mark Corroto
Ben Sidran Talking Jazz - An Oral History Self Published 2006 In jazz, there are only six degrees of separation between Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman, or beween any other pair of musicians you care to name. Perhaps a six-degrees/small-world theory which suggests a jazz critic from Ohio can find ...
Auntie Occident & The Free Radicals: Brothers, Let Us Prey
by Victor Verney
Music has galvanized activists during some of modern history's most revolutionary moments, from gospel chants doubling as hidden messages for runaway slaves to Joan Baez's rendition of “We Shall Overcome" during the March on Washington. Today, these are the style of torch songs performed by Auntie Occident & the Free Radicals, a jazz vocal quintet out ...
Francis Jacob and the Flying Saucers: Side-By-Side
by Budd Kopman
Putting aside the rather unique structure of this delightful record, the actual music of Side-By-Side is so pleasant, light on its feet, buoyant and just plain attractive as to give one hope for the future of this earth. Francis Jacob, raised in Geneva, Switzerland, moved to Paris in 1984 and played there, only ...
Barbara Sfraga: Timelessness Frozen In Time
by Michael P. Gladstone
New York-based jazz singer Barbara Sfraga is not afraid to take musical steps forward (or sideways) and that shows fully on Timelessness Frozen in Time. Previous albums Oh, What A Thrill( ( Naxos, 1998) and Under The Moon (A440, 2003) have exhibited Sfraga's ability to at least partially deconstruct the Great American Songbook and provide a ...
Peter Primamore: Grancia
by Michael P. Gladstone
It is not going to be easy to describe this album in a single sentence. Grancia is a classically-influenced work of original material that somehow combines a singular gift for melody along with jazz sensibilities. Pianist/composer Peter Primamore is nominally a musician with a significant background in composing music for television. His wish in preparing for ...
Francis Jacob and the Flying Saucers: Side-By-Side
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist Francis Jacob's first project is undoubtedly the result of his varied musical background. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Jacob played flute as a child and then switched to guitar as a teen. His interest in rock musicians was replaced by the popularity of jazz guitarists George Benson, John Abercrombie and John Scofield. After studying at the ...
Choose to Find: Choose to Find
by John Kelman
As the baby boomer generation begins to enter retirement age the challenge of attracting a younger demographic to jazz is something that simply cannot be ignored. With that comes a need to open up to jazz as an expanding and expansive genre that retains its modernity by accepting musical shifts going on around it. Choose to ...
Greg Smith: Above the Clouds
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist/composer/educator Greg Smith attempts an ambitious synthesis within adult contemporary jazz intended to jettison his jazz vision from the maudlin confines of what passes for “smooth jazz today. Smith is not satisfied with the cliché throbbing synthesizers and intellectually deprived virtuosity plaguing the majority of jazz ostensibly intended for greater crossover appeal. Smith's approach is successful ...
Towner Galaher: Panorama
by Mark F. Turner
Panorama is a testament that straight-ahead jazz can still thrive in modern times. Drummer/composer Towner Galaher, an astute leader and sideman who has performed with names like Wynton Marsalis and in ensembles such as Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band, carries the torch of jazz drummers like Art Blakey. Galaher's playing is more ...
Mel Davis: It's About Time!
by Michael P. Gladstone
It's About Time underscores an inspirational story. Keyboardist/organist Mel Davis was an aspiring young pianist in Paterson, New Jersey hoping to gain fame and fortune on the Hammond B-3 organ. 24 years ago, an industrial accident changed everything when a finger was ripped from his left hand. Davis endured eight years of rehabilitation and seven operations ...
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