Cellar Music; 2024; appx. 64 min.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Carl Allen; Tippin'
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Michel Petrucciani Trio; Jazz Club Montmartre | CPH 1988
Storyville; 2024; 2 CD's: 50:30 and 56:12
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
David Caffey Jazz Orchestra; At The Edge Of Spring
HDC Music Publications; 2024; appx. 57 min.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Tom Wakeling; West By Northwest
Portland, Oregon area. On this straight ahead, energetic album, Wakeling heads a quintet in a live and lively performance. His colleagues, all first cabin players, include Jason Carder, trumpet and flugelhorn; Angelo Versace, piano; and Don Moio, drums. The album is perfectly balanced between original works and familiar choices like Benny Golson's “Out Of The Past”, the Gershwins' “The Man I Love”, Monk's “Evidence”, and two songs with the same title, “Lotus Blossom”. You may be aware that song TITLES are not copyrighted. As a result, trumpet great Kenny Dorham and composer-pianist Billy Strayhorn could both use the title “Lotus Blossom” on very different melody lines. This is superb five star jazz. Great solo work, perfectly honed ensemble playing and an adventurous choice of tunes all live here. Tom Wakeling has been a fixture of Portland's jazz circles for decades. How nice that he gets this opportunity to record with such stimulating friends.
Cellar Music Group; 2025; appx. 64 min.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Jim Snidero; Bird Feathers
Savant; 2025; appx. 48 min.
Friday, April 18, 2025
Jackson Potter: Small Things
Shifting Paradigm Records; 2024; appx. 60 min.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
ANSWERS TO GEORGE'S QUIZZES:
- Straighten Up And Fly Right
- Sunny Side Of The Street
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Route 66
- Exactly Like You
- Almost Like Being In Love
- Sweet Lorraine
- Too Marvelous For Words
- Embraceable You
- Yes Sir That's My Baby
- I've Got The World on A String
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- 'Deed I Do
- It's Only A Paper Moon
- Sunday