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Daria: Feel the Rhythm
by William Grim
San Francisco is noted as a proving ground for hard-swinging female jazz vocalists such as Madeline Eastman and Kitty Margolis. To this august group the name of Daria must be added. Feel the Rhythm is an exquisitely crafted album that shows off the multiple talents of the singularly named Daria. The record begins with ...
Eric Comstock: No One Knows
by William Grim
Wow! There are simply not enough superlatives for this CD. Eric Comstock “owns" the Great American Songbook like Tony Bennett and Mel Torme, and he is one of the best of the crop of young jazz singers and song stylists to come along in recent years. Blessed with perfect intonation and incredible enunciation, Comstock does equal ...
Onaje Allan Gumbs: Remember Their Innocence
by William Grim
In our adult-denigrating society, I always cringe whenever I encounter an album that's “for the children." Like books in which the authors claim that part of the proceeds will be donated to charity, it's a certain bet that the there is some defect that the producers are hoping the patina of good will and charity will ...
Carol Mennie: I'm Not a Sometime Thing
by William Grim
Jazz singing is like the Supreme Court's definition of pornography--it can't be defined, but everyone knows what it is when they see (or hear) it. Most of the time, jazz singing falls into two categories: (1) scat singing, improvisatory vocalising, or (2) cabaret, Broadway-style singing. Carol Mennie definitely falls into the latter category. Her husband and ...
Fay Victor: Lazy Old Sun
by William Grim
This is a very interesting CD from the American (former ex-pat) singer Fay Victor--her last recording made in Europe before returning to the United States last year. Her repertoire is very eclectic, ranging from standards to original tunes to covers of less-than-satisfactory 1960s-era rock tunes and one offering from the songbook of the highly overrated Randy ...
Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farrill Quintet: The Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farrill Quintet
by William Grim
This is a pleasant but unchallenging album by a quintet co-led by two mainstays of the Lincoln Center's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill (son of the great composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill) and trumpeter Jim Seeley. The music is, as one would expect, mostly Latin-based or straight-ahead. But given the pedigrees and previous ...
Tony Monaco: Jazz Organ Crusader
by William Grim
If you happen to be in Columbus, Ohio on most Wednesdays, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you head up on High Street just north of the student slums of Ohio State University to an unpretentious joint known as the Ravari Room. It's your typical campus dive bar, complete with cheap drinks, an incongruously placed ...
Simone Kopmajer: Romance
by William Grim
Romance is the debut CD by Austrian singing wunderkind and Mark Murphy protege Simone Kopmajer, who sings with a maturity that belies her age of 23. Two things that immediately struck this listener were Kopmajer's good taste and her acute ear. By acute ear, I mean her sensitivity to what is going on around her musically, ...
George Gruntz/Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Greetings
by William Grim
This album is a recording of a live performance of George Gruntz's so-called jazz opera Cosmopolitan Greetings, with texts taken from selected poems written by Allen Ginsberg. There is a bit of confusion here because Ginsberg's last volume of published poetry was also called Cosmopolitan Greetings ; however, the poems used for the opera come not ...
Jenny Evans: Gonna Go Fishin'
by William Grim
Long a fixture on the Munich jazz scene, British-born singer Jenny Evans is a skillful performer and engaging lyricist. This album was recorded live at the Jazzclub Unterfahrt and shows the singer at the peak of her skills. The title track is a too little-performed song that Duke Ellington wrote for his score to ...
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