This seems like a good serious project: the contents of three LPs made under the leadership of different trumpet players on two CDs. The first, … Read More “Various Artists: Swing Trumpet Kings”
Continuing the label’s exploration of world music, this album presents the Brazilian musical amalgam known as “choro,” which evolved much like jazz. Mandolinist Mike Marshall … Read More “Mike Marshall: Brasil (Duets)”
For her huge voice, bluesy bawdiness, and visceral, tale-telling vocal style, Baby Jane Dexter has been compared to Bette Midler. Similarities don’t end there. They … Read More “Baby Jane Dexter: Big, Bad & Blue: Live!”
This album, recorded in 1988, was Herring’s debut as a leader. His debt to the late Cannonball Adderley is not as pronounced here as on … Read More “Vincent Herring: Scene One”
Morgan is as full of bebop fire as when he was a young featured soloist with Maynard Ferguson’s incendiary big band of the early ’60s. … Read More “Lanny Morgan: Pacific Standard”
Of all Bley reissue wishes, this would not have been on my list; however, here it is. There’s a comic, antic quality afoot here-and isn’t … Read More “Carla Bley Band: I Hate To Sing”
Rollins made only two albums for the Riverside label in the late 1950s: the famous Freedom Suite and this one, a typical example of why … Read More “Sonny Rollins: The Sound of Sonny”