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Piano Trios: Junior Mance, Steve Elmer, Don Friedman & Frank Hewitt
by Tom Greenland
Junior Mance Live at Café Loup JunGlo 2008 Steve Elmer Fire Down Below self-published 2008 Don Friedman Straight Ahead No Coast Jazz 2008 Frank ...
Joe Henderson: Power to the People
by Tom Greenland
Joe Henderson enjoyed widespread popularity only late in his career, when his cover albums for Verve achieved high (for jazz) sales figures, but since the early '60s he had been making excellent records, both as a sideman and a leader. Here at last is 1969's Power to the People, one of his best recordings made for ...
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra: Song for Chico
by Tom Greenland
Like the great Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band, pianist Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra combines the best aspects of a big horn sound with small-group finesse and flexibility. Song for Chico, O'Farrill's tribute to his legendary father, evinces the influences of South American rhythms, hard bop and what might be termed “post-Latin," representing the latest branchings of ...
Connie Crothers Quartet: Music Is A Place
by Tom Greenland
With Music Is A Place pianist Connie Crothers has created an enduring work, a crystallization and clarification of her musical aesthetic. Featuring longtime colleagues Richard Tabnik (alto) and Roger Mancuso (drums) along with veteran bassist Ratzo Harris, the disc contains a set of originals that explore the interzone between pre- and free composition, a mix of ...
Miguel Zenon: Awake
by Tom Greenland
From its very first notes (played by a string quartet), Awake is identifiably Miguel Zenon: lyrical, spiritual and original. For his fourth date as a leader Zenon reunites his go-to posse--Luis Perdomo (piano) and Hans Glawischnig (bass)--but with a key change in the drum chair, Henry Cole replacing Antonio Sanchez. The strings are ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage & Seraphic Light
by Tom Greenland
Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up International 2007 Saxophone Summit Seraphic Light Telarc 2008 Michael Brecker (tenor sax) was a musicians' musician, with jaw-dropping chops and a unique ...
Bill McHenry: Sonic Pressure & Rediscovery
by Tom Greenland
Bill McHenry Sonic Pressure Fresh Sound 2007 John McNeil & Bill McHenry Rediscovery Sunnyside 2008 Bill McHenry's eclectic sound, blending West Coast cool with the restless interplay ...
Gerald Cleaver: Detroit
by Tom Greenland
Detroit, Gerald Cleaver's sophomore release and a tone portrait of the Motor City, further establishes the drummer, best known as a prolific and versatile sideman, as a leader and composer in his own right. A brief photo essay in the liner notes displaying dilapidated buildings and skid-row denizens strikes a melancholy tone, but the music is ...
Oscar Peterson: Date with Oscar
by Tom Greenland
Oscar PetersonDate with OscarMembran Records2008 Alongside of the sad news of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson's passing comes Date With Oscar, a ten-disc retrospective of his activities from 1950-56, a period of artistic flowering and prodigious productivity. Date is an uneven set, chock-full of gems, both lesser- ...
Loren Stillman: Trio Alto Volume 2 & Blind Date
by Tom Greenland
Loren Stillman Trio Alto Volume 2 SteepleChase 2007 Loren Stillman Blind Date Pirouet 2007 Loren Stillman's latest projects, Trio Alto Volume 2 and Blind Date, both give evidence of ...
