Results for "Summit Records"

Live In Paris

By Ted Curson

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2012

Trumpet Summit

By The South Florida Jazz Orchestra

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Daahoud; Read My Lips; Everything I've Got Belongs To You; Blues for the Terrible Two's; Peer Pressure; Sophisticated Lady; One For Mogie; All The Things You Are; Good Addiction.

This Time / Last Year

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Games; This Time / Last Year; Forgotten Thoughts; RU Chicken?; The Gentle Rain; Pah-Dah-Pah-Dah; Night Dreamer; I'm Okay, We're OK!.

Deborah Shulman / Larry Zalkind: Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim

by Dan Bilawsky
November 15, 2012

The respective output from compositional icons Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill and, to a lesser extent, Stephen Sondheim has frequently been putty in jazz musicians' and arrangers' hands, proving that malleability is a sine qua non for long-range success in writing; genius-level composing skills, of course, also tend to help. While the actual act ...

Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band: This Time / Last Year

by Edward Blanco
August 24, 2012

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
August 21, 2012

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
August 18, 2012

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
January 31, 2012

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 ...

Live at the Iridium

By Nobuki Takamen

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2011

Standard Flute

By Gerald Beckett

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.