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Dave Glenn - National Pastime
by Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Many talented jazz musicians are hidden from the jazz audience because they are full-time teachers in various colleges around the country, instead of gigging frequently in large metropolitan centers and making regular visits to the recording studio. Trombonist Dave Glenn is hardly new to the scene, as he spent a decade with the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, recording and performing with the baritonist and others before becoming director of... read more
Andrea Brachfeld & Insight - Evolution
by Terrell Holmes, New York City Jazz Record
Evolution, by flutist Andrea Brachfeld & Insight, is not just an album; it's an eloquent, impassioned plea for humanity. Brachfeld, with a first-call rhythm section of pianist Bill O'Connell, bassist Harvie S and drummer Jason Tiemann, sets out a musically and culturally diverse welcome table that is instructive as well as entertaining.
Brachfeld has serious jazz chops, and she declares her pedigree when the band bears down on... read more
Dan Cray - Outside In
by Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail
Outside In is the title of the sixth album by the pianist/composer Dan Cray, his second recorded in quartet. Regarding the lineup, and in comparison to Cray's previous work, Meridies, the saxophonist Noah Preminger was replaced by Dayna Stephens, while the drummer Mark Ferber and his longtime bassist Clark Sommers keep laying down the foundation.
Favoring a laid-back posture and a liberating spiritual freedom, the recording... read more
Brad Wheeler - The Future Was Yesterday
by Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
The Future Was Yesterday opens with a bass/drum knock and rumble, churning ahead with a loose momentum. A bit after a minute into the song "Inner Vision" the piano chords in with some gentle chimes, and you know right off you're listening to a hell of a rhythm section. Then Brad Wheeler blows into the mix on a robust and searching tenor, and you know you've got a hell of a saxophonist, too.
That opener has me thinking of the classic Coltrane... read more
Trio Linguae - Kevin Woods / John Stowell / Miles Black - Signals
by George W Harris, Jazz Weekly
The unorthodox trio of Kevin Woods on trumpet and flugelhorn, pianist Miles Black and John Stowell on steel, nylon and fretless baritone guitars makes for playful work of originals and some jazz standards. Woods and Stowell dance around "I Hear A Rhapsody" with Black waxing eloquence on Wayne Shorter's "Virgo". The three play peek-a-boo on Bill Evans' "Peris-Scope" and are languid for Jobim's "Inutil Paisagem." Most lyrical is Black's romantic... read more
James Moody - 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note, March 26, 2005
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
4 1/2 STARS When it comes to having fun, few events can compete with a birthday party. Fun is clearly at the summit of the agenda on 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note, recorded at the famed New York City nightspot on March 26, 2005, to celebrate saxophonist James Moody's eightieth birthday, and released on the same date in 2025 to honor the centenary of his birth. Moody, who, with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, comprised one of... read more
George Colligan - The Endless Mysteries
by Brent Black, Critical Jazz
George Colligan serves up an interesting if not slightly eclectic offering to offer a breath of fresh air to the all too predictable jazz trio format.
George Colligan is a lunch pail pianist, he works incredibly hard. A diligent performer, teacher and over all student of music himself, Colligan has had the good fortune to develop a long association with iconic drummer Jack DeJohnette as well as an incredibly poor choice in one... read more
Les DeMerle Sound 67 - Once in a Lifetime
by Georges Tonla Briquet, Jazz'halo (Belgium)
Young drummer who immediately scored successes from his teenage years, but whose debut
with his group was shelved for inexplicable reasons. That, in a nutshell, is the story behind this
unreleased recording. However, a number of big names contributed to this. Among them Randy
Brecker, Rosemary Clooney and the popular rock singer Genya Ravan (Goldie and The
Gingerbreads) at the time.
Ten songs that are all jukebox material. We hear a spicy... read more
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