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Trio East - Best Bets
by Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Trumpet, bass and drum trios are not all that common. The trumpeter must have strong endurance and enough imagination to keep the set interesting, even when the bassist and drummer are operating as equals. Recording as Trio East on Best Bets, Clay Jenkins shows that he is very much up to the role, coming up with consistently creative ideas without any hesitation. Bassist Jeff Campbell and drummer Rich Thompson are both very active (particularly... read more
Chris Walden & the LMR Jazz Orchestra feat. Tierney Sutton & Kurt Elling - Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass
by Dr. Debra Jan Bibel, Amazon
The Christian mass has been performed by jazz musicians before, such as Vince Guaraldi's The Grace Cathedral Concert, Dimitri Matheny's jazz/classical hybrid Spiritu Sancto/the New Millennium Mass, and Wynton Marsalis's The Abyssinian Mass, but a fully jazz big band treatment with soloists, chorus, and organ for the Catholic Latin mass is new. Missa Iubeleum Aureum immediately catches attention with its... read more
Mimi Fox Organ Trio - One for Wes
by Thomas Houbron, Couleurs Jazz (Paris)
It's January 2023, and for guitarists, from amateurs to the very best, this is a year that cannot be insignificant...
Indeed, on March 6th of this year, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the greatest representative of the "six strings" (according to me, but I am not alone): Wes Montgomery! Every jazz guitarist has the master's work as a shepherd's star. I always thought that Django had invented jazz guitar and that Wes... read more
The Spin Quartet - In Circles
by Paul Abella, Chicago Jazz Magazine
There's not a lot to know about The Spin Quartet, or their album, In Circles. There's no liner notes, and to tell the truth, I don't know much about leader and trumpeter Chad McCullough. I know that Clark Sommers has appeared on a few of my favorite local discs from the last few years. I know that Kobie Watkins is a beast behind the drums, and everything I've ever heard from saxophonist Geof Bradfield has been excellent. So, we can be... read more
Harvie S - Bright Dawn
by Dee Dee McNeil, Making A Scene
Bassist Harvie S can proudly boast, this is his 21st album release as a band leader. He is also one of the most respected and sought after bass voices in the jazz music arena. For this project, the bass master has composed eight out of ten songs.
The quartet opens with "Ghosts of Havana," a melodic, low-key, original composition by Harvie S. On this tune, Miki Hayama explores her solo on the Fender Rhodes. One thing that's noticeable right... read more
Jaiman Crunk - Encounters
by Chris Spector, Midwest Record
Reminiscent of the kind of grand sitting down jazz date you'd get when someone would write someone like Michel LeGrand or Michel Columbier a check big enough to realize a grand vision, this new kid on the block has everyone in jazz turn out to lend a hand. Maybe not everyone but if you look at the credit list, it does go on forever and it's all made up of pros from the different sub phyla of jazz---all coming together and making it work. A... read more
James Moody - 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note, March 26, 2005
by Jeroen de Valk, Jazzflits (The Netherlands)
James Moody's old bandleader Dizzy Gillespie couldn't be there that night at the Blue Note, but he was there anyway. The traces he left in the life and music of Moody (1925-2010) were omnipresent. Think of the repertoire - pieces like 'Bebop', 'Birks' Works' and 'Cherokee' - and a preference for real Jesus tempos, such as later generations played and still play less and less. And then there was the shared past that went back far into... read more
Jaiman Crunk - Encounters
by Editor, Die digitale Jazz - Zeitung
Supported by a cast of some of the biggest names in jazz today, composer and guitarist, Jaiman Crunk, presents a variety of original compositions in his debut album, ?Encounters?. The album includes compositions ranging from a refreshing ballad entitled, ?What You Know?, featuring pianist, Bill Anschell, to an upbeat composition full of colorful sounds and harmonies entitled, ?She Stepped Away?, featuring Randy Brecker (Flugelhorn), Ada... read more
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