Singer, radio show host and doer of all things jazz in West Sussex, Jenny Green has just released her second CD, Always and Forever. As fellow jazz vocalist Gill Manly states: “Beautifully produced by Claire Martin and accompanied by the [...]
Arranger/composer and saxophonist Bob Mintzer‘s latest offering was recorded in 2019 with the WDR Big Band in Cologne. Having studied with, reviewed and followed Mintzer’s output closely since 1977 I would nominate this CD as his finest work to date. [...]
Clarinettist Joe Traina‘s CD Tip of the Hat elucidates his full and liquid clarinet tone along with his eloquent melodic readings of nine timeless standards. His coda of a minute’s worth of the cadenza from Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet [...]
This double album reissue from 1969 features one LP with Stan Tracey’s Big Band of the time (full personnel listing below) and one with quartet featuring Peter King. There is a Shakespearian theme to the big band album. The titles [...]
The Uptown Jazz Tentet is a NYC-based ten-piece ensemble led collectively by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite and James Burton III. The band owes its unique sound to the musical prowess of its members coupled with the benefit [...]
Sammy Nestico (1924-2021) passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 96. Four bandleaders and arrangers pay tribute to one of the best-known (and most frequently-played) big band arrangers: Denny Ilett: By 1967 one could be forgiven for thinking [...]
British jazz singer Tina May celebrates the songs of Scottish born saxophonist/composer/arranger and songwriter, Duncan Lamont (1931-2019 – TRIBUTE). And there’s no better vocalist for this role. Her ability to tread carefully and gently into a persona along with the [...]
Tom Pierson‘s Last Works CD presents an overview of 40 years of his big band music. A cast of world-class musicians, for the most part New York stalwart sessioners and players from the Broadway show and jazz scenes, imbues the [...]
