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November 2006
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| Origin Records |
The New Record Labels - Origin Records
Origin Records has made quite an impression in the Jazz world in the last few years. This new label led by John Bishop and Matt Jorgenson (since the Fall of 1997) has created a resource where 85 artists have signed on to carry on the mission of artistic music.
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| Jim Rotondi - Interview |
 | Jim Rotondi - Interview
Trumpeter Jim Rotondi began his musical studies at a very early age. His mother, a piano teacher, encouraged Jim to begin playing the piano at age eight. He took up the trumpet at age twelve. In 1980 Jim graduated from Butte High School in Butte, Montana. He then attended North Texas State University, where he graduated with a degree in trumpet performance.
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| Steve Davis Interview |
 | Steve Davis Interview
Steve Steve Davis has emerged as one of today’s profound new voices on the trombone. He has toured and recorded extensively with the bands of jazz legends Art Blakey, Jackie McLean and Chick Corea’s acclaimed sextet Origin. As a member of Origin, Davis has performed and recorded as a featured soloist with the London Philharmonic, received a Grammy Nomination, appeared on the Ma...
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| Bill Dobbins - Interview Pt. III |
 | Bill Dobbins - Interview Pt. III
Bill Dobbins has performed with classical orchestras and chamber ensembles under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Lukas Foss, and Louis Lane, and has performed and recorded with such jazz artists as Clark Terry, Al Cohn, Red Mitchell, Phil Woods, Bill Goodwin, Dave Liebman, Kevin Mahogany, Paquito D'Rivera, Peter Erskine, and John Goldsby. Bill Dobbins has performed with cla...
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| Steve Cardenas Interview |
 | Steve Cardenas
Steve Cardenas has diverse credits as a performer and recording artist. Having started his musical career in Kansas City, he is now an integral part of the jazz community in New York. Cardenas has backed up such greats as Eddie Harris, Marilyn Maye, Jay McShann, and Slide Hampton. He has toured Europe extensively, performing at various jazz festivals including the Montreux Jazz...
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| Diana Perez Interview |
 | Diana Perez Interview
It was in Amsterdam where Diana met and worked with Bill Gerhardt, a gifted composer, arranger and piano player. Bill and Diana have collaborated for over 10 years and 2 recording sessions, Seventh Avenue South and Sunday Sketches. Perez became a regular figure at Amsterdam's Bimhuis. Establishing her reputation, she ran a weekly session there for a spell and appeared a...
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| Ted Nash - In The Loop |
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Ted Nash - In The Loop
Ted Nash’s new release “In the Loop” is a refreshing release featuring melodic new originals, tasteful improvisation and wonderful group interplay. I love Nash’s choice of personnel on this recording. He’s surrounded with musicians who are risk takers and master’s of their instruments. This leads to performances ... |
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| Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson - The Lyric |
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Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson - The Lyric
Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson’s new release entitled “The Lyric” is an outstanding recording, emphasizing great standards and wonderful group playing. If you have not heard Stacey, she is a native New Yorker. Kent moved to England to study at Oxford several years back, met and married her saxophonist, Jim Tomlinson, and has put ou... |
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| John Stowell - Resonance |
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John Stowell - Resonance
Resonance by guitarist John Stowell is a recording that simply defines what good taste, imagination and beautiful sound are all about. This disc is simply a masterful performance of solo guitar work. It will remind those who listen to just how beautiful this instrument can sound. Furthermore, he picks music that many jazz afficianados will recogniz... |
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| Joe Lovano – Streams of Expression |
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Joe Lovano – Streams of Expression
Joe Lovano’s latest album Streams of _Expression from Blue Note records has plenty to offer the listener. First, there is the collaboration between Lovano and Gunther Schuller. By reworking three gems from the 1949-50 Birth of the Cool recording sessions for Lovano’s ensemble, Schuller provides an opportunity for listeners to reconsi... |
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| Gill Goldstein - Under Rousseau’s Moon |
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Gill Goldstein - Under Rousseau’s Moon
Let me say flat out that this is a stunning CD – both conceptually and musically. Gil Goldstein has assembled a first rate group of musicians for this live recording at the Blue Note club in NYC. There is a wide palette of colors that emanate from the tracks, due in part to the inclusion of a string section, vibes, and bass clarinet. The arra... |
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| Larry Vuckovich - Street Scene |
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Larry Vuckovich - Street Scene
Larry Vuckovich’s latest CD, “Street Scene”, is a straight ahead musical offering from a seasoned jazz pianist and some skilled sidemen. Larry has played and recorded extensively with Jon Hendricks as well as a myriad of other great instrumentalists and singers. The depth of his playing experience is evident from the first track t... |
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| Wycliffe Gordon - Cone’s Coup |
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Wycliffe Gordon - Cone’s Coup
Wycliffe Gordon is one of those rare musicians in a generation who displays mastery of his craft and still understands the importance in communicating to an audience. Cone’s Coup is display of technical mastery by one of the finest Jazz trombonists ever to grace a stage, in any generation. At the same time, Wycliffe totally understands his ro... |
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| The Chris Walden Big Band - “NO BOUNDS” |
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The Chris Walden Big Band - “NO BOUNDS”
Chris Walden had an impressive discography long before he came to the United States. But he decided to relocate to Los Angeles sometime in the last ten years. Already having the credentials to validate his musical competence, he was easily able to put together a band with the best studio and jazz players in the business. |
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| Marc Copland - Modinha |
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Marc Copland - Modinha
The musical elements that comprise the tracks of this CD are complex and deeply musical, with all the components of a timeless jazz vocabulary woven throughout – at once pensive and probing, and then swinging with a restrained but forceful energy coming out of this dynamic group, three great players emerging as a delicate and compassionate vo... |
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| Diana Krall - From This Moment On |
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Diana Krall - From This Moment On
Diana Krall’s new release From This Moment On, returns to the large ensemble format, and delivers a program of music from the American Songbook that is highly entertaining. Along with her co-producer Tony LiPuma, Krall and trio hook up with master arranger John Clayton and his orchestra, to deliver one of the best produced albums in 2006. |
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| Gladys Knight - Before Me |
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Gladys Knight - Before Me
Verve has released a new recording with Gladys Knight and the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra that is going to raise eyebrows in the Jazz community. It is a first rate recording that has shades of the great vintage recordings of the past. There is great orchestration, arranging, and quality performances throughout. The production is simply outstanding I... |
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| Joe Locke - Live in Seattle |
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Joe Locke - Live in Seattle
A suitable preamble for this review might include the following descriptors: spontaneous, controlled, innovative, melodic, inventive, raucous, sensitive, energetic. These are some of the adjectives that come to mind while listening to Joe Locke’s CD “Live in Seattle”. |
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