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Sheldon Brown

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: The Falling Dream

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2018

No, the San Francisco-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra does not come with accordions attached. It does, however, come with a well-developed eye for harmony and rhythm, an inflexible group dynamic and a number of perceptive soloists, all of which serve to make the ensemble's second album, The Falling Dream, a pleasure to hear. The ...

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: Cheap Rent

by Jack Bowers
August 30, 2015

Yes, the name is intriguing--but what should one expect musically from the San Francisco-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra? Bits and pieces of a number of disparate elements, really, from straight-ahead contemporary motifs to shuffle beats and old-line swing, from down-home New Orleans rhythms to throwback grooves from the '70s and even a seductive ballad. What matters most ...

Roberta Donnay & The Prohibition Mob Band: Bathtub Gin

by Dan Bilawsky
April 15, 2015

Roberta Donnay is a Jazz Age preservationist, guardian of Depression-era sounds, and extender of traditions, but her music isn't covered with cobwebs or dated in any way. On Bathtub Gin, this singer-composer puts a new coat of paint on the songs of the '20s and '30s, contributes originals sympathetic to the sounds of those times, and ...

The Touch and Go Sextet Live at the Novara Jazz Festival

By Vijay Anderson

Label: Ninewinds
Released: 2014
Track listing: 1. Slippin' 06:44 2. Horripilation 07:45 3. Waldron 05:39 4. Delusions 12:44 5. Swift Horse 16:34 6.The Last Good Kiss/Dimond Park/Degrees of Gray 18:16 7. Endless Sin * 09:36 8. The Year of the Zinc Penny * 07:27

Touch and Go Sextet: Live at the Novara Jazz Festival

by Robert Bush
August 13, 2014

Drummer Vijay Anderson formed the Touch and Go Sextet in the Bay Area as a vehicle for performing and interpreting the works of visiting musicians, but his concurrent studies with alto sax legend Roscoe Mitchell gave him the confidence to steer this three-reed, one trumpet and double-bass ensemble into original compositions, the results of which are ...

Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: the Music of Joni Mitchell

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2014

Bay Area vocalist Laurie Antonioli has been performing and recording for more than 30 years. Early on she mixed paints with the likes of Joe Henderson, Mark Murphy and Pony Poindexter with whom she undertook an 8-month European junket in 1980, quickening her already impressive jazz chops. Antonioli's discography is a slim yet intense affair that ...

Laurie Antonioli: Songs Of Shadow, Songs Of Light: The Music Of Joni Mitchell

by Dan Bilawsky
July 24, 2014

The concept of a jazz-informed program of Joni Mitchell tunes isn't exactly novel anymore. Herbie Hancock's high profile River: The Joni Letters (Verve, 2007) took home two Grammy Awards; vocalist Tierney Sutton got some well-deserved attention when she put her own spin on Mitchell's work with After Blue (BFM, 2013); somewhat under-the-radar releases from artists like ...

Jazz, Baby!

By Doug Beavers

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Sta; The Hokey Poke; Itsy Bitsy Spider; Shortnin' Bread; Conga Intro; Comin' Round the Mountain; Hush Little Baby; Workin' On the Railroad; he Ants Go Marching; You Are My Sunshine; Brahms Lullaby.

You Are My Sunshine

November 21, 2007

Album: Jazz, Baby!
By Doug Beavers
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2007
Duration: 4:15