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Madeleine Peyroux: Half The Perfect World
by Suzanne Lorge
Madeleine Peyroux confidently walks the line where jazz, country and blues collide--her understated vocals and Billie Holiday-esque phrasing are what pull the disparate elements of her performance together into an engaging pastiche. Peyroux's bailiwick is pop covers with stylized jazz arrangements: On the Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas title cut, “Half The Perfect World," her ...
Fred Wesley & The Swing 'N Jazz All-Stars: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
by Suzanne Lorge
Charity golf tournaments raise millions--sometimes billions--in the name of giving back. Trombonist Fred Wesley uses a different kind of swing to make his contribution: His recent release as bandleader, It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, benefits The Commission Project (TCP), a nonprofit that supports various music education projects around the U.S. ...
Catherine Dupuis: The Rules Of The Road
by Suzanne Lorge
Catherine Dupuis's latest album, Rules Of The Road, displays a vibrant collaboration between Dupuis and pianist/arranger/composer Russ Kassoff. The title cut refers to the Cy Coleman tune recorded by the late Rosemary Clooney (henceforth spoken of in the first person for her lingering influence on the so-called “girl singers ). Dupuis and Clooney do different things ...
Roberta Gambarini: Easy To Love
by Suzanne Lorge
If Roberta Gambarini had chosen to pursue opera we might be seeing her at the Met instead of in the world's top jazz clubs, so exquisite is the natural lyricism of her voice and her technical mastery of its use. Absent from her performance are the blatant shifts in registration, dicey intonation, and questionable diction that ...
Michael Camacho: Just For You
by Suzanne Lorge
Michael Camacho, a silver-throated jazz vocalist, introduced his new CD, Just For You, with three sets at The Bacchus Room on May 24. Between the CD and his live performance, one thing is clear about Camacho. He knows what he's doing. And what he's doing is staking his claim as a front-runner among that rarest of ...
Gypsy Knights: Les Grandes Figures Du Jazz Manouche/Loutcha
by Suzanne Lorge
Various Artists Gypsy Knights Le Chant Du Monde 2006 Tchavolo Schmitt Loutcha Le Chant Du Monde 2006 Jazz manouche, or “traveler jazz, melds elements of traditional Roma ...
Roseanna Vitro: Live At The Kennedy Center
by Suzanne Lorge
Roseanna Vitro is on tour throughout the U.S. these days, promoting her new CD, Live At The Kennedy Center. She gave two performances in New York recently, the CD's launch at The Blue Note on May 29 and an all-Porter tribute show at The Jolly Madison Hotel's Whaler Bar on the composer's birthday June 9. Porter ...
Karrin Allyson: Footprints
by Suzanne Lorge
Karrin Allyson marked the release of Footprints at the Blue Note in April--a subtle introduction for a great album. The twice Grammy-nominated vocalist typically turns out great albums, so in and of itself, this isn't the news. What sets Footprints apart is Allyson's keen understanding of the jazz instrumental classics from which the CD borrows: It's ...
We Three Pianos: Worlds, My Romance, The Nights of Bradley's
by Suzanne Lorge
Aaron Goldberg Worlds Sunnyside Records 2006 Jon Mayer My Romance Reservoir Music 2005 Kirk Lightsey The Nights of Bradley's Sunnyside Records 2004
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records
by Suzanne Lorge
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records Ashley Kahn Hardcover; 340 pages W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 2006 Author Ashley Kahn's latest contribution to the documentation of jazz history is The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records, a chronicle of the rise ...
