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Roberta Piket | Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz
January 16, 2020 / No Comments / Tags: Roberta PiketPianist Roberta Piket delivers a wonderful birthday gift to drummer Billy Mintz on her release Domestic Harmony. The project is comprised entirely of Piket’s solo piano performances of compositions written by Mintz, who also happens to be her husband. Piket’s deft touch is ...
Kristin Korb | That Time of Year
December 23, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Kristin Korb, Magnus Hjorth, Mathias Heise, Snorre Kirk, thejazzpage.comSinger and bassist Kristin Korb gifts us a warm, elegant and engaging holiday season recordings with That Time of Year. The wonderful production primarily has Korb delivering some fantastic arrangement and vocals on some less-traveled tunes in the spirit of the season, as well as a few ...
Jerome Jennings | Solidarity
December 19, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: A.J.Jennings, Andrae Murchison, Camile Thurman, Carlos Maldonado, Jerome Jennings, Josh Evans, Stacy Dillard, Tia Fuller, Zaccai CurtisDrummer and composer Jerome Jenning’s Solidarity is a compelling work of musical depth and artistic profundity. The recording seamlessly joins compositions of various genres and styles into one entertaining production of music, including tunes by Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw and Robert ...
Utah jazz legend Joe McQueen passes away at 100
December 13, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: jazz, Joe McQueen, utahJoe McQueen, Utah’s legendary saxophonist who talked tempo changes with Charlie Parker, tried to get Count Basie to quit smoking and told Louis Armstrong that he didn’t like his style, died Saturday morning. Read More
Jackie Allen | A Romantic Evening with Jackie Allen: Live at The Rococo
December 13, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Ben Lewis, Bob Sheppard, Dane Richeson, Hans Sturm, Jackie Allen, John Moulder, thejazzpage.comA Romantic Evening with Jackie Allen: Live at The Rococo is very much the intimate set which the recording’s title implies. The project is also an extraordinary showcase of inventive arrangements and a confident singer. Allen dives into each of the album’s confidently and delivers ...
Steve Khan | Patchwork
December 13, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Bob Mintzer, Bobby Allende, Dennis Chambers, Jorge Estrada, Mark Quiñones, Randy Brecker, Robb Mounsey, Ruben Rodriguez, Steve Khan, thejazzpage.comVeteran guitar master Steve Khan offers up another fine effort with Patchwork. The production is a quality display of Khan’s virtuosic acumen. The musical set runs the gamut of compositions from legendary Ornette Coleman, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Keith Jarrett, Alan Lerner and ...
Massimo Biolcati | Incontre
December 6, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Dayna Stephens, Jongkuk Kim, Massimo Biolcati, Sam Yahel, thejazzpage.comBassist Massimo Biolcati leads a top-flight musician lineup in a fantastic musical exploration on Incontre. The balanced set of up and downtempo works is a mix of Biolcati originals and reimagined compositions by Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Dave Holland among others. The quartet ...
Kelley Suttenfield | When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young
December 5, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Eric Halvorson, Kelley Suttenfield, Matthew Fries, Phil Palombi, The Meming Ensemble String Trio, thejazzpage.comWhen We Were Young from singer Kelley Suttenfield is an impressive and enjoyable tribute to the awesome catalog of Neil Young. Creative arrangements of the songs provide Suttenfield fantastic in-roads to Young’s work, with the singer delivering some warm and engaging performances of the ...
Richie Goods & The Goods Project | My Left Hand Man
December 2, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Chien Chien Lu, Danny Sadownick, David Rosenthal, Gregoire Maret, Jean Baylor, Lil John Roberts, Mike King, Richie Goods, Shedrick Mitchell, Tariqh Akoni, The Goods Projects, thejazzpage.comBassist Richie Goods heads up the electric-fusion sound unit The Goods Project on My Left Hand Man. The project, Goods’ third as a leader, is a tribute to his former bandleader and mentor, the late Mulgrew Miller. It’s a pretty sturdy tribute, forging new compositional territory ...
Katerina Brown | Mirror
November 26, 2019 / No Comments / Tags: Adam Shulman, Airto Moreira, Akira Tana, Brian Ho, Celso Alberti, Gary Brown, Katerina Brown, Kenny Washington, Mads Tolling, Miles Olmos, Ricardo Peixoto, Robert Roth, Timothy AnguloSinger Katerina Brown provides a wonderful debut with Mirror. The Russian-born chanteuse delivers vocals on this effort in a way that makes for truly pleasurable listening. The setlist of the recording is a mix of older and newer standards, with a couple of tunes in her native tongue added to ...
