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Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band: This Time / Last Year
by Edward Blanco
As Director of Jazz Studies at Collin College near Dallas, TX, award-winning bassist Kris Berg has vast experience teaching the music, directing various ensembles, as well as being founder of the annual Collin Jazz Festival and the Texas All-Star Jazz Camp. However, This Time / Last Year is his first project as bandleader, directing the large, ...
Cheryl Bentyne Sings the Winners
by C. Michael Bailey
It is not so hard to sing jazz music, at least, if such is measured by the glut, deluge, plethora or superabundance of jazz vocal recordings released each season. Where bandleader and composer Duke Ellington once opined that that there are only two types of music, good and bad, you could say that some of this ...
The South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Trumpet Summit
by Edward Blanco
Following its self-titled South Florida Jazz Orchestra (MAMA Records, 2008) debut, this Miami-based big band now presents a power-infused second effort. The highly anticipated Trumpet Summit showcases several wonderful jazz trumpeters. Renowned bassist, and founder and director of the band, Chuck Bergeron was inspired to feature sounds of the trumpet after remembering all of the great ...
Jim Ketch: A Distant View
by Nicholas F. Mondello
A Distant View delivers intelligent music performed by highly involved players across a dozen diverse selections ranging from straight-ahead hard bop, calypso, an obligatory standard and a Chuck Mangione-esque soft rock tidbit thrown in for dessert. Incorporating a classic Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers quintet formula, these outstanding players share a common interest here in ...
Mood Ebony
By Marty Nau
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Slipped Disk; AS Long As I Live; Smoke Dreams; Doctor Tee; Three in
One; A Night in Tunisia; Ballad for Hank; Bossa for Eddie; Blues for
Benny; You Came Into My Life.
Bassoon Goes Latin Jazz!
By Daniel Smith
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Mr. Kenyatta; Watermelon Man; So Danco Samba; Listen Here; Black Orpheus; Yardbird Suite; Manteca; Korg In; Peace; The Chicken; Come Candela; Mambo From The Dance As The Gym.
Standard Flute
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Why Wait; Arietis; When We Were One; After the Morning; Caminhos Cruzados; A Luta Continua; On a Misty Night; Entre Nous; Wild Flower; Father; Melancholia.
Melodious Monk
By Kim Pensyl
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Monk's Dream; Reflections; Ruby My Dear; Straight, No Chaser;
Misterioso; I Mean You; Bye Ya; Blue Monk; Ugly Beauty; Hackensack;
Nutty; Ask Me Now.
