 Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
There's Buddy DeFranco, Dick DiBona (from Boston), Dick Johnson, (also Boston/RIP) & Ken Peplowski. What they all have in common is a compelling, strong, and unique clarinet delivery & sound! I've always marvelled at the fat, rotund, & cogent blast of musical artistry that emerges from peplowski's clari. His singular sound is total appassionata! There's a certain flowing, rhythmic, counterpoint to everything that he does and plays, (it seems) that warms as well as attracts listeners into a mode of a powerfully dramatic musical experience, from the swinging to the profound, the dramatic, the serene. Ken's music is exhilarating and uncompromising & certainly not impersonal. His music can deliver you into a more gentler mood. Try him... You'll like him!
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
Jazz trombonist Ryan Keberle & musical friends embark on an artistic sojourn that is tantamount to an eventful and broadly designed art-fest! This CD jazz project bustles and luxuriates with haunting and mysterious moments of rhythm, harmony, and melody to also peaceful moments of lyrical relief as well. I am particularly attracted to the group's treatment of the jazz classic and deceptively tempo-d tune ''Our Love Is Here To Stay'' with its versatile and singular delivery!
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
I'm not much of a devotee of the Avante Garde' jazz idiom, but I must concede to the fine musical substance contained in jazz pianist Pablo Held's new orig. music CD project, ''Music.'' The spacious almost symphonic character of this jazz trio is remarkable in its harmonic and melodic variety. And, please also note the full, rich texture of art contained therein, certainly a viable musical 'conversational' manner going on with the players etc.
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
Jazz bassist-composer Michael Janisch offers us his intricate, yet purposeful, array of self-penned originals for our instruction and edification. His new CD project abounds with innovation, invention, and imagination. Janisch seems to have planned his project in a surprisingly expansive and spacious scale. His music will affect you ,almost in the vernacular of a professor teaching an interested spate of animated students.
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
Succinct, macho, tight, compelling, grand, challengeing... This is definitely a 'bad-ass' big band playing seriously penned original music engineered by composer-jazzer Tim Hagans. Hagans writes in 'the mainstream' of jazz, (which is where I live). Ergo, I'm thoroughly enjoying doing this review. It'll probably write itself. And, no it won't be negative. SORRY!! Each player and section of the band treats
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
MAN!! THIS CHICK SINGER WILL STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS!! I love it all about her voice, i.e. her well controlled vibrato, her delivery, her sense of feeling, her care for the lyric, her well placed short vocal glissandos, in short her total vocalise!! I speak of jazz singer Jackie Ryan. Oh! I forgot in addition to her being 'ear candy' as it were, I assure you, she's eye candy as well. This is a vocalist that can deliver a song with a massive power and range of mood, while at the same time give you a broad melodious flow of art in her music. I have to pay kudos as well to her remarkable variety of grace, lyricism, and vigor in her phrasing & please note the dramatic series of modulations
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
Yes indeed!! 'Behind the Smile of Antoinette Montague is one hell of a talented jazz singer. Man, is she "smokey." Of course, having Mulgrew Miller in your back pocket on piano-assist is definitely something you can write home about. She brings to her vocalise, a combination of warmth and richness of sound on the one hand, and on the other a feeling that more is still there to be stated, said and enjoyed. Her voice is extraordinary and subtle in texture and deeply thoughtful in tone. Along with her voice's affinity for beauty and sensitiveness, there's a certain undercurrent of attendant dreamlike quality and mystery.
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
Nice stuff indeed... In every sense of the word, as we observe her musical work effort... She's great to look at and listen to as well... A true sexy siren of song! We're talking Gia Notte chanteuse of jazz song extraordinaire!! She struts her stuff with an strong sense of daring simplicity, but her delivery gives you a sense of awe and expectation reminiscent of early Shirley Horn. There is a certain curious, exciting, and thoughtfullness that we must reckon with in her vocalise that she's capable
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
I recently read a piece of a review about jazz singer Whitney James by fellow CD reviewer Philip Booth of The St Petersburg Times. He said about Whitney's new CD project: ''.....A startlingly impressive and mature debut CD....." Nuff said!! Whitney not only can turn a musical phrase with complete authority and artistic presence, but she has featured a wonderful trumpet-eer,
|
|
Read more...
|
Tweet this article !
|
By: George W Carroll
|
|
JAZZ!! Brought to fruition through the talents of two jazz masters... Frank Wess-reeds, and Paul Meyers-jazz guitar... This is jazz that is soft, compelling, florid, and cogent. Wess delivers his improvisations with his usual ''journeyman, I've been around awhile'' confidence, and Meyers backs him up with a certain subtle panache. In classic form, we are bent to enjoy jazz in all its articulate strains of modality, melody, beauty, counterpoint, harmony, et al.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
