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Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra: Kindred Spirits
by Todd S. Jenkins
The liner notes tout this band as “a veritable who's who among the Los Angeles area's most accomplished studio and big-band artists." That's quite true, which is precisely why Kindred Spirits falls a bit flat. It shares much of its personnel with most every other white big band project in Southern California, which makes it essentially ...
Charlie Peacock: Exhibits Curiosity, Returns to Jazz Roots
by Todd S. Jenkins
Nashville pianist, composer and author Charlie Peacock has raised a lot of eyebrows with 2005's Love Press Ex-Curio, the scintillating first release from his label, Runway Network. It marks his first full-on jazz effort in nearly three decades, a bold step away from the lucrative world of contemporary Christian music. The album is the latest in ...
Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
by Todd S. Jenkins
Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts 200 B/W photographs ISBN 0811845486 Chronicle Books 2006 Harlem of the West is a charming, violet-hued paperback that digs deeply into one of America's most endangered jazz legacies. Long ...
Harvie S: Funky Cha
by Todd S. Jenkins
Harvie S's inimitable, fearless and fun-filled approach to Latin jazz reaches a new pinnacle on Funky Cha. The bassist's musical sensibilities couldn't be summed up better than on the opening track, a re-visioning of Monk's “Rhythm-A-Ning. His bass and Daniel Kelly's piano pulse out Thelonian arhythmic fragments over Beaver Bausch's tappy drum groove, building in quirky ...
Synergy: Later
by Todd S. Jenkins
San Antonio's Mike Brannon has one of the most uplifting guitar tones and approaches to improvisation in contemporary jazz, besides a flair for composition. His playing and writing are informed by fellow travelers like Metheny and Scofield, but not derivative of either. And he knows how to draw out the best from his associates, be they ...
Anita O'Day: Indestructible!
by Todd S. Jenkins
Anita O'Day Indestructible! Kayo Stereophonic 2006 In 2003 View Video put out a DVD of one of cabaret singer Mabel Mercer's last performances. She was in the twilight of her life, and every minute of her advanced age was reflected in her loving, yet passionless and cursory delivery of songs ...
Doug Ellington & New Urban Groove: Life
by Todd S. Jenkins
Trumpeter Doug Ellington's new release conveys some interesting ideas with generally solid musicianship. As they are described in the liner notes, some of Ellington's notions are overly clever and border on pretentious, but all in all this is a very enjoyable effort. The opening “Xenophobia begins with a vibrant bass vamp that soon supports a bustling ...
Kayle Brecher: Spy Music
by Todd S. Jenkins
The remarkable Kaylé Brecher ranks among Philadelphia's finest jazz singers; nay, among the best the East has to offer. Over the past decade she has distinguished herself as a fearless interpreter of song, a subtle stylist with an instrumentalist's creativity. On this, her fourth album, she presents the best evidence yet that she is ready to ...
David Dzubinski: Recyclical
by Todd S. Jenkins
This marvelous debut recording reveals David Dzubinski as one of the most uniquely creative, introspective pianists on the contemporary Pennsylvania scene. Like many of the best post-boppers, he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz styles without sounding too derivative. One of his more prominent influences is Dave Burrell, who co-produced this disc with Dzubinski's wife, vocalist ...
Memories Of Steve Lacy
by Todd S. Jenkins
Steve Lacy's return to America in 2002, following three decades in France, was welcomed with as much enthusiasm as Dexter Gordon's triumphant repatriation in the '70s. A quirky and beloved individualist, Lacy, who died in Boston of liver cancer on June 4, 2004, took a mongrel horn and brought it into a permanent place of jazz ...
