All content by G Daniels
Petra van Nuis & Andy Brown
June 29, 2010 / No CommentsFar Away Places (String Damper Records) In addition to being husband and wife, Chicago-based Petra Van Nuis and Andy Brown are an engaging guitar-vocal duo. Van Nuis is the vocalist, while Brown handles the guitar duties very nicely. Together, the blend of the two creates warm sound and mood ...
Christian Scott
June 25, 2010 / No CommentsYesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord Records) When you hear trumpeter Christian Scott, you’re hearing a young musician who has one foot planted in the history of jazz and the other in the infinite possibilities of this elastic genre. Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is a continuation of ...
John Pizzarelli
June 22, 2010 / No CommentsRockin’ In Rhythm (Telarc Records) Coming off of a tribute recording to composer Richard Rodgers, the ever-ambitious guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli pays musical homage to the great Duke Ellington. On Rockin’ In Rhythm, Pizarelli mixes clever arrangements of Ellington-branded ...
Darryl Harper
June 18, 2010 / No CommentsStories In Real Time (Hipnotic Records) When was the last time you heard a recording featuring four clarinets not playing in unison, backed by a rhythm section along with a spoken word vocalist and it all worked musically? Probably not until you hear this great new concept/album from ...
Claudio Roditi
June 15, 2010 / No CommentsSimpatico (Resonance Records) Trumpet veteran Claudio Roditi has never considered himself a composer, but as he explains, “a trumpet player who needed to write–when I wasn’t playing that much”. On his latest recording, Simpatico, Roditi not only plays a bit, wrote all of ...
Almost Back!
June 11, 2010 / No CommentsIt’s been a crazy month since we last published, but we are almost done with the transition to a new publishing system and will back in a few days to pick up were we left off. Even in the midst of finding the site in a bit of a challenging time, we found some things […]
Pharez Whitted
May 1, 2010 / No CommentsTransient Journey (Owl Studios) Transient Journey is the first recording from Pharez Whitted in fourteen years. In that time, the trumpet player made a number of changes, including moving from Ohio to the Chicago jazz scene. The new recording is comprised solely of Whitted compositons, which ...
Jerry Bergonzi
April 28, 2010 / No CommentsThree For All (Savant Records) Three For All, the latest recording from saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is a snapshot of trio work at its finest. Bergonzi, who comes out of a generation of New York brass men heavily influenced by the energy of the great John Coltrane, continues to uphold that flag ...
Tia Fuller
April 16, 2010 / No CommentsDecisive Steps (Mack Avenue Records) Saxophonist Tia Fuller proves that her sophomore recording was no fluke. On Decisive Steps she goes deeper into the tradition than on her previous efforts, perhaps swinging a bit harder and more intently. Her skills as a composer have not waned either, as ...
Pat Metheny
April 13, 2010 / No CommentsOrchestrion (Nonesuch Records) One of guitarist Pat Metheny’s treasured memories as a child was watching his grandfather’s player piano, a 19th-century invention which played on its own using metallic music rolls. The machine sparked such an interest, that over the years Metheny ...
