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Dwayne Clemons: Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls
by Pierre Giroux
Copenhagen-based trumpeter Dwayne Clemons is an accomplished musician whose US career trajectory hit a speed bump in the 1990s when he was incarcerated for a narcotics conviction. Fortunately, he caught the attention of pianist and club owner Spike Wilner who encouraged him to come to New York to play. In time, the result was that, in ...
Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow
by Jack Bowers
When one is diagnosed with multiple myeloma, as woodwind specialist Ken Peplowski was in June 2021, there are basically two alternatives: either accept the decision and throw in the towel or choose to fight and double down on doing what keeps you active and hopeful, in this case making beautiful music that swings. Obviously, as epitomized ...
Live At Smalls Jazz Club
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: Four; At Last; My Funny Valentine; Meditation; Blues For Smalls; Nearness Of You; New York,
New York; When Sunny Gets Blue.
Live at Smalls Jazz Club
By Jesse Davis
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gingerbread Boy; Ceora; Cup Bearers; These Foolish Things; Juicy Lucy; Rhythm-a-Ning;
Street of Dreams; Love for Sale.
George Coleman: Live At Smalls Jazz Club
by Jack Bowers
Tenor saxophonist George Coleman, one week past his eighty-seventh birthday when Live at Smalls Jazz Club was recorded in March 2022, has not yielded an inch to Father Time, skating up and down his horn with the awareness and agility of someone many years his junior. It is entirely appropriate that this album should be a ...
George Coleman: Live At Smalls Jazz Club
by Pierre Giroux
If you are an aficionado of tenor saxophonists with a big, bold, biting tone who can run changes in the blink of an eye, then George Coleman is your man. Now in his 88th year, over the course of his long career, he has had a gamut of experiences including B.B. King (1952/1955-56), Max Roach (1958-59), ...
Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club
by Jack Bowers
Alto saxophone master Sonny Stitt always chafed when he was called “little Bird," a reference to the greatest alto of them all, Charlie Parker. “I'm not a little Bird," he would say, “I'm me; Sonny Stitt." In similar fashion, Jesse Davis would probably shrug off any comparison to another of the instrument's esteemed patriarchs, the late ...
Frank Sinatra, Spike Wilner, Paul Marinaro & Wayne Maureau
by Joe Dimino
We kick off the first show of 2023 with New Orleans drummer Wayne Maureau and music from his 2022 release At The Water's Edge as well as new music from Laura Ainsworth, Curtis Nowosad, Paul Marinaro and Yotem Silberstein. In between, we go old school with Billie Holiday, Jimmie Lunceford, Frank Sinatra and Bunny Berigan. One ...
Plays Monk & Ellington
By Spike Wilner
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Eronel; Well You Needn't; Pannonica; Wonderful!Wonderful!; Let's Cool One; Gypsy Without A
Song; Le Sucrier Velour; U.M.M.G.; Intimacy Of The Blues
Plays Monk & Ellington
By Spike Wilner
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Eronel; Well, You Needn’t; Pannonica; Wonderful! Wonderful!; Let’s Cool One; Gypsy
Without a Song; Le Sucrier Velour; U.M.M.G.; Intimacy of the Blues.
