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David Sills - Green
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz.com
With tenor saxophonist David Sills, three big "s" words come to mind: Swinging, soulful, and...surfing?"
Check out the cover photo on his Green CD. You might think it a re-release of a forgotten Chantays?of "Pipeline" fame?album from 1963. The guy on the surfboard?David Sills himself?is cutting into a bottom turn on a clean, overhead steel blue wave, with, it appears, a tube in his immediate future.
Surfing aside, Sills proves himself a... read more
Paul Marinaro - Mood Ellington
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
Old School vocalist Paul Marinaro takes a double disc release to prove that you can never have enough Duke Ellington. The takes on 25 tunes from The Duke's songbook, mixing and matching arrangements from small group to jazz orchestra with and without strings from classy charts penned out by the likes of J ohn Clayton, Alan Broadbent and Chuck Israels,to name just a few.
Marinaro acts each part well, going the role of a hep cat on easy... read more
John Bishop - Antwerp
by Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews
5-STARS, Definitively distinctive jazz John Bishop - ANTWERP: Believe it or not, in all the years I've been reviewing jazz, this is my first encounter with such definitively distinctive jazz as Seattle drummer John Bishop and his bandmates produce for your enjoyment. To give you an idea of their timeless jazz skills, I (most STRONGLY) recommend that you watch this excellent performance from ten years ago, in Brussels, Belgium (a... read more
John Stowell and Dave Liebman - Blue Rose
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
Saxophonist Dave Liebman joined guitarist John Stowell and bassist Don Thompson on three tunes on Stowell's The Banff Sessions (Origin Records, 2002). More than a decade later, Stowell and Liebman have teamed up on a duo outing, Blue Rose. The two artists' take on a bunch of jazz standards and Great American Songbook tunes has a beautiful fluidity in this pared down setting. Stowell's lines are crisp and clean, while Liebman's keening... read more
Jessica Williams - Songs For A New Century
by Joseph Blake, The Times Colonist
Like Oliver Jones, pianist Jessica Williams owes a large debt to Oscar Peterson. She acknowledges it with the gorgeous original, Dear Oscar, just one of the beautiful solo works on this collection.
Williams unleashes all of her playful, adventurous power on a wide-ranging repertoire of originals and Sonny Rollins' seldom-played gem, Blessing In Disguise. Without the aid of overdubs, Williams conjures up the Japanese koto an... read more
Piet Verbist - Suite Réunion
by Alex W. Rodriguez, Downbeat
***
Jazz musicians know a thing or two about grueling travel schedules. Belgian bassist Piet Verbist, a veteran of two decades of jazz globetrotting, draws from the experience and gathers longtime friends for Suite Réunion, an album that exudes effervescence throughout as pieces oscillate between cool, lyrical openness and upbeat swing.
"Mygratum" opens the recording with a heartfelt and lyrical exposition for solo bass that... read more
Matija Dedic - MD in NYC
by Dustin Garlitz, Jazz Talent.com
Zagreb, Croatia?s Matija Dedic is emerging as one of the most important rising stars on Continental Europe?s jazz scene. His modern piano trio performances with sidemen Vincente Archer and Kendrick Scott certainly qualify him as a significant up-and-coming jazz artist hailing from this particular region of Europe, if not the continent as a whole. It is a real pleasure getting to hear Dedic in action with Archer and Scott in New York City in... read more
Matt Jorgensen +451 - The Road Begins Here
by Dan Aquilante, New York Post, February 27, 2001
Matt Jorgensen is an unusual jazzman. He is young, he runs his band from the drum kit, he knows when to give and when to take within a song and he hasa rock aesthetic that lends intensity to his improvisations for 'The Road Begins Here.'
Sure, Jorgensen and company cover the expected numbers such as Miles Davis' 'Teo' and John Coltrane's 'Central Park West,' but where he and his bandmates are truly terrific is on their cover of Led... read more
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