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Alfabeats Nu Jazz: Stones
by John Kelman
For those who think that authentic, urban-informed jazz is the unique purview of North American musicians, one need only look to Stones. Emerging from the ashes of the more electronica-centric Italian group DMA, the equally all-Italian Alfabeats Nu Jazz makes music that sounds like it could be coming from the streets of any large American city--or ...
Mace Francis Orchestra: Chinese Whispers
by Jack Bowers
In August 2005, barely a year after it was formed, the Mace Francis Orchestra appeared as part of the Jazz Windows Concert Series at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. Chinese Whispers, the orchestra's first album, was recorded (in part) during that performance. The orchestra was created, Francis writes, ...
Jane Stuart: Beginning to See The Light
by Michael P. Gladstone
Jazz vocalist Jane Stuart's debut, Beginning to See the Light, could be a big success for unexpected reasons. The thirteen tracks are presented in a bright manner by a singer who knows how to swing them properly. This album could potentially attract a non-jazz audience: about half of the material consists of fairly well-known standards from ...
Misha Piatigorsky: Uncommon Circumstances
by C. Michael Bailey
Mother Russia has given birth to some of the greatest musical and literary talent of the 20th and 21st centuries. Add to this mammoth list the name of pianist, composer and producer Misha Piatigorsky, a native of Moscow who now makes his home in New York City. Piatigorsky's resume includes a Bachelors Degree from Rutgers University ...
Mace Francis Orchestra: Introducing the Mace Francis Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Composer/arranger Mace Francis formed his orchestra three years ago as an outlet for creative music in Western Australia, and this album, in which the twelve-piece ensemble is “introduced, is actually its second. The first, Chinese Whispers, was recorded four months earlier (in August, 2005) as a part of the Jazz Concert Window Series at the West ...
Grace Kelly: Every Road I Walked
by Dan McClenaghan
Singer, songwriter and alto saxophonist Grace Kelly's photograph--and her smiling face--grace the cover of her third release, Every Road I Walked. She's about as cute as a young woman can be, but at fourteen years of age (almost fifteen), you have to wonder about her artistic maturity and depth. A clue: she's wearing Phil Woods' hat, ...
SF Jazz Collective: Live 2006: 3rd Annual Concert Tour
by J Hunter
You heard it in science class... for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That maxim works in many spheres outside the scientific, no more so than in jazz. So it was only a matter of time before there was an answer to Jazz at Lincoln Center's “strict-constructionist view of what jazz “is. Where ...
Michele Mele: Feel
by Michael P. Gladstone
Feel, the third album from singer/songwriter Michele Mele, falls in line with her previous efforts, Like This (2003) and Laugh (2004). Both prior albums reflected her creativity and featured only original material. Her third album is not much different in format. There are a dozen tunes here, of which only two are famaliar (the Ellington/Strayhorn vehicle ...
Eddie Skuller: Somebody's Fool
by Michael P. Gladstone
It didn't take a lot of rocket science to unravel the meaning of Somebody's Fool. The opening tracks are the Etta Jones-associated hit “Don't Go To Strangers," the traditional “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" and George Harrison's “Give Me Love," all done in a stripped-down ballad presentation. Eddie Skuller's voice hovers somewhere between the ...
Sue Tucker: Back Home
by Michael P. Gladstone
For her third album, singer Sue Tucker wanted to try something different. Her concept was to explore a more earthy jazz vocal album in which “jazz meets the gravel road" through the use of rhythm guitar instead of drums. She was also seeking less familiar tunes with great melodies and lyrics that apply to today's environment--and ...
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