Results for "With Strings"

Mike Jones: Mike Jones With Strings

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2026

Pianist Mike Jones' With Strings does not denote a sizable orchestral design but a piano-jazz trio in which a guitar replaces the drums, a format introduced in the 1930s by Nat King Cole's peerless trio and favored for years by the legendary Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel or Joe Pass on guitar. ...

With Strings

By George Coleman

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dedicated to You; Moment to Moment; Stella by Starslight; A Time for Love; Ugly Beauty; A Time for Love (with full orchestra intro); Ugly Beauty (with full orchestra intro).

Whitney Ross-Barris

Born: November 20, 1979

Whitney Ross-Barris is an Ontario-based jazz singer and songwriter with proud roots in the theatre. Her newest release, Curtains of Light is a genre-bending record of original music rooted in jazz but woven through with threads of soul, spoken word, classical, folk and choral music. The album reflects the full breadth of her artistic experience—intimate and expansive in equal measure.

A regular performer across Ontario's vibrant music scene, Whitney has released three jazz albums, including her self-titled EP, her full-length solo record Everybody’s Here, as well as The Bright Lunch Trio with guitarist Nathan Hiltz. She has also appeared as guest singer and lyricist on such celebrated recordings as The Art of Breath: Volume One with saxophonist John MacMurchy.

George Coleman: With Strings

by Jack Bowers
September 23, 2025

Sooner or later (usually later), a jazz saxophonist (or other instrumentalist) will entertain a desire to leave his or her normal comfort zone and record an album with “class." In other words, cue the string section and get ready to score some ballads. Tenor virtuoso George Coleman, who likely needs no introduction to even the more ...

With Strings

By Eric Alexander

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Gently; Dreamsville; Some Other Time; Lonely Woman; Slow, Hot Wind; The Thrill Is Gone.

Eric Alexander: With Strings

by Jack Bowers
March 9, 2020

To paraphrase Cole Porter: “Bird did it, Chet did it... even many vocalists I bet did it..." And now tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander did it--recorded an album with strings, that is. This represents quite a departure for Alexander who is widely known as one of the more emotive and resourceful improvisers on the scene; but so ...

With Strings

By Art Van Damme

Label: Victor
Released: 1979

With Strings

By Helen Merrill

Label: Melodiya
Released: 1955

With Strings

By Clifford Brown

Label: EmArcy
Released: 1955

With Strings

By Dizzy Gillespie

Label: Green Line SRL
Released: 1955