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Jack Cooper: Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter
by C. Michael Bailey
The Jazz Orchestra of the Delta is a 17-member big band lead by Jack Cooper and, on this present recording, featuring trumpeter Marvin Stamm and vocalist Sandra Dudley. The Memphis-based group and special guests direct their attention here to the music composed and inspired by Cole Porter. Dr. Cooper spent the better part of the last ...
Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles
by Jim Santella
The songs that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote and recorded with the Beatles in the 1960s have left lasting impressions on all of us. They are timeless anecdotes from an era of exploration and change. On Let It Be Jazz Connie Evingson places each of these familiar melodies into a mainstream jazz context with a ...
Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles
by C. Michael Bailey
In my experience, non-pop interpretations of the Beatles? songbook have been dismal at best, suicidal at worst. Part of the problem, I suspect, is one of context. It seems that the Beatles canon does not lend itself readily to differing genre applications. Take for example Telarc?s recent attempt to apply a blues treatment to The White ...
Connie Evingson: Let It Be Jazz: Connie Evingson Sings The Beatles
by Dan McClenaghan
We orignal diehard Beatles fans--those of us who came of age during and just after the '64 British Invasion--tend to cringe at the mention of Beatles jazz albums. There's a certain sanctity associated with the music of the Fab Four; and who among us hasn't encountered an uninspired and blandly arranged Beatles knock-off? Certainly ...
Jack Cooper: Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter
by Jack Bowers
The Delta in the Jazz Orchestra's name refers to the Mississippi Delta, specifically around Memphis, TN, where the five-year-old JOD is based. Formed in 1998 by composer / arranger Jack Cooper, the eighteen-piece ensemble is comprised of some of the finest professional jazz and studio musicians in the area. On its debut album, Big ...
Jack Cooper: Big Band Refections of Cole Porter
by Dan McClenaghan
Cole Porter didn't set out to write songs for the jazz folks to sink their teeth into; but it's happened that way anyway. It seems any jazz artist worth their salt tackles Porter at one time or another. Charlie Parker had a field day; Ella Fitzgerald put out a couple of albums' worth of Porter songs. ...
The Chad Lawson Trio: Dear Dorothy: The Oz Sessions
by Jack Bowers
The future isn't always as bleak as it so often appears. Amid the welter of rubbish that passes for music these days one can occasionally discern a refreshing ray of sunshine. Here's one--music from MGM's film classic The Wizard of Oz, handsomely arranged and marvelously played by three talented young musicians from North Carolina. The idea ...
Intimately Live at the 5:01
By Tony Monaco
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Cat; Takin
