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Brook Benton: Songs I Love To Sing
by David Rickert
Brook Benton came up with the concept of Songs I Love To Sing while recovering in the hospital from an illness. He wanted to record an album of songs that in his estimation were among the best ever written, and recruited his collaborator Clyde Otis to write the charts. This was quite a departure for Benton ...
Frank D: After the Ball
by David Rickert
Frank D’Rone was one of many singers after a piece of the Sinatra pie, and the suave, debonair fellow on the cover certainly had the promising look of the next big crooner. However, although D’Rone is a fine singer, he lacks that elusive quality that allows one to jump the gap between an interpreter and an ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Heartcore
by Eddie Becton
Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel serves vibrant, electric rhythms on Heartcore, bringing along a septet of talented musicians for the task. Rosenwinkel gets to the heart of the matter on the title track with a fusion-laced beat. He plays around the tempo of a funky drum machine with a deep bass pattern. Mark Turner's saxophone blasts high notes ...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Heartcore
by Matt Merewitz
It took long enough, but guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel has outdone himself on Heartcore, co-produced with hip-hopper Q-Tip. Fans of his seemingly ancient 2001 release The Next Step will love Heartcore for its continuity in the “Rosenwinkelian” vein of brashly inventive and original melodies and harmonies (enhanced by ambient noise and the simultaneous echo of his voice ...
Ben Webster: Soulville
by John Ballon
I accidentally lucked into the music of Ben Webster while sifting through the “W" section of some dusty used record bin years ago. The cover looked cool, with its classic profile shot of an unsmiling, world-weary Webster featured beneath the boldly printed title, Soulville. I impulsively bought the disc, took it home, and a few days ...
John McLaughlin: Thieves and Poets
by Walter Kolosky
Thieves and Poets is the latest offering from guitarist John McLaughlin. Similar in concept to two of his previous albums, The Mediterranean Concerto and Time Remembered, but different in execution, Thieves and Poets is well worth the ten year wait McLaughlin fans have endured to hear the piece recorded. In one form or another, McLaughlin's three-part ...
Chet Baker: Chet For Lovers
by Norman Weinstein
Of course the title of this newest entry in Verve's “For Lovers" series is redundant. What did trumpeter Chet Baker ever record that wasn't directed to lovers, particularly the jaded variety? This is simply a finely honed compilation of fourteen Baker tunes spaning the fifties and sixties. Crucial are the Paris sessions from 1955, arguably the ...
Jimmy Giuffre 3: The Easy Way
by Joshua Weiner
Jimmy Giuffre's jazz has got to be among the sparsest ever laid down; you can see a whole lot of daylight between the notes. But the sketch-like quality of his music belies a quiet intensity that has an almost hypnotic attraction. This is not jazz that jumps out at you and grabs you by the lapels. ...
Danilo Perez: ...Till Then
by Franz A. Matzner
Interpretations of intent--always confounding--become both particularly difficult and intriguing with works of artistic expression as simultaneously precise, pleasurable, and subtly constructed as ...Till Then. Intense musical innovations often stem from the simplest, most confined of experiments, rather than an intellectually driven perspective. The kind of artistic directedness found on ...Till Then often creates a finished product ...
John Scofield Band: Up All Night
by Farrell Lowe
The Freaky Deaky is back! This is the most inspired playing I have heard from John Scofield in many years. On Up All Night, Scofield has found the elusive spot (as a player) between knowing what he's doing and what he doesn't know. The band caught at the time of this recording exists at that junction--a ...
