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Joanie Pallatto & King Fleming: The King and I
by Dave Nathan
King Fleming's first recorded session was held in December of 1945 where he appeared as a sideman playing pianist for Wynonie “Blues" Harris with Johnny Alston & his All Stars. But even prior to that, Fleming is reputed to have had his own band as early as 1939! Shades of Benny Carter. He made some albums ...
Bobby Lewis: In the Forefront
by Dave Nathan
The Chicago-based label Southport, has issued what could be called the ultimate trumpet album. Not only are most forms of music visited on this album, but virtually the entire trumpet family is represented - brothers, sisters and cousins. In addition to the usual cast of brass characters – B trumpet, flugelhorn and cornet–there's the piccolo trumpet, ...
Marie Michuda: It's a Grand Night for Singing
by Dave Nathan
Marie Michuda teaches in the Voice, Opera and Musical Theater Department of Chicago's Northwestern University. Although billed as singing in the cabaret style, to me, this album comes across as a recital by a good musical comedy and operetta singer. Her maiden album, not surprisingly, is pretty much stays with selections from well known and no ...
Martha Lorin: Come Walk with Me
by Dave Nathan
Chicago's Southport label has brought different groupings of instrumentalists into the recording studio to back Martha Lorin for her second album. Only superb pianist Mike Black appears on all the cuts with Lorin. To Ms Lorin and Southport's credit, they avoid the temptation of limiting the musical agenda to the usual standards by offering songs that ...
Tatsu Aoki: The Miyumi Project
by Mark Corroto
Of the wholly American art forms-jazz, cowboy movies, and fast food-jazz seems to have generated the most controversy as to its origins. Many believe jazz was given to the pilgrims by native Americans that first Thanksgiving during the halftime show. I hold to the theory that jazz came from New Orleans at the confluence of European, ...
Hal Russell: Albert's Lullaby
by Glenn Astarita
Multi-instrumentalist and beloved free-jazz pioneer Hal Russell passed away in 1991 as the newly released Albert’s Lullaby represents one of Russell’s final recordings. Russell and his “NRG Ensemble” were infamous for crafting abstract, gleefully rambunctious avant-garde jazz compositions and improvisations as Russell also helped establish paradigms for many of our younger and present day modern or ...
Michael Mason: Angel On Fire
by Mark Corroto
On December 1, 1958 fire broke out at Our Lady Of Angels school in Chicago. Ninety-two children and three Catholic nuns were killed and hundreds of others injured in the fire. Michael Mason a survivor of this tragedy is besides a talented Musician, a firefighter in the Chicago area. Mason and The Exploratory Ensemble present this ...
