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Trio East - Best Bets
by Ed Trefzger, JazzWeek
A WORKING GROUP since 2001, the "power trio" of Clay Jenkins on trumpet, Jeff Campbell on bass and Rich Thompson on drums keeps a regular Thursday gig a few blocks from the Eastman School of Music where all are on the faculty. The absence of piano on this understated CD of mostly originals and a few uniquely arranged standards provides plenty of space for Jenkins' smouldering but clear trumpet, Campbell's driving bottom end and Thompson's... read more
Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Cyrille Aimee - Burstin' Out!
by Jeff Stockton, The New York City Jazz Record
Cyrille Aimée didn't come from nowhere. Having won two jazz vocal competitions in 2007 and 2012 (with a 2010 bronze in between) she was primed for success. She sounds equally comfortable singing in the jazz style she grew up hearing in France, assaying the Great American Songbook, or pop music, as the occasion demands. Her voice is deceptively powerful, but with a girlish sweetness. Her diction is clear, but her pronunciation betrays a trace... read more
Don Lanphere - Like A Bird
by Robert Spencer, Cadence
Don Lanphere recorded in the late Forties with Fats Navarro and Max Roach, and his tenor sound is rooted in the note choices and approaches of that era - which sounds as if he would be much more remote than he actually is, since most "mainstream" jazz players of our day play the same way. Imagine, by the way, what might have happened at Minton's when Lanphere was a kid if someone had come in with a tenor sound copped from Coleman Hawkins records... read more
Doug Scarborough - The Color of Angels
by Michael van Gee, Jazz 'N' More (Switzerland)
5-STARS "The Color Of Angels" by the sextet of trombonist, composer and arranger Doug Scarborough presents a collection of new compositions that fuse Western music with traditional Middle Eastern music. The famous trombonist Bill Watrous describes the album as "some of the most interesting, original music coming from anybody in a long long time". Scarborough teaches at Whitman College in Walla Walla (Washington) and has been working for... read more
David Friesen and Glen Moore - Bactrian
by George Fendel, Oregon Jazz Scene
Both David Friesen and Glen Moore are Portland residents who have worked together and separately for more than forty years. On this album they explore eleven originals, some of which cross the paths of jazz and contemporary classical music. Of particular interest is the fact that both Friesen and Moore try their hand(s) at the piano on a few tracks. So there is lots of variety here. If you are a student of the bass, you will want to check out... read more
Keigo Hirakawa - Pixel
by Neil Duggan, All About Jazz
Science and jazz do not come up too often in the same conversation. Even more unlikely is that spatio-spectral colour filter array design will feature. Unless you happen to be talking with the Ivy League-educated researcher and professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio, Keigo Hirakawa. His work in image processing is part of a major research initiative at the university. More pertinently, in his other career, he has a Master of Music degree... read more
Chris Walden & the LMR Jazz Orchestra feat. Tierney Sutton & Kurt Elling - Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass
by Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
4-STARS First things first: there is no doubt that Chris Walden's reverential Missa Iubileum Aureum ("Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass") is beautifully written and wonderfully performed by the LMR Jazz Orchestra, St. Dominick's Schola Cantorum and cantors Kurt Elling and Tierney Sutton. Is it jazz? That is another question, one not so easily answered. While there are elements of jazz, they are incidental and generally overshadowed by the more... read more
Kiki Valera - Vivencias en Clave Cubana
by Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network
It's odd to think that a recording in 2019 could be deemed to have become "historic" upon its release, but this one - Vivencias en Clave (Featuring Coco Freeman - by Kiki Valera actually is; and it is historic in more ways than one. First of all, decades into his life as a musician - and that too one from the fabled Familia Valera Miranda with its almost 300-year-old tradition of music - Kiki Valera has only now made his debut recording.... read more
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