Hot Wax: September 2018
September 5, 2018
Album Reviews: Dave Liebman/John Stowell, Teddy Wilson, Terry Gibbs, Kalen Henry
Read More…Kurt Elling, The Questions (Okeh)
July 11, 2018
Kurt Elling, voice Stu Mindeman, piano, Hammond B3 organ John McLean, acoustic and electric guitars Joey Calderazzo, piano (tracks 4, 6, 9) Clark Sommers, bass Branford Marsalis, saxophones Marquis Hill, trumpet, fluegelhorn Jeff “Tain” Watts, drums Produced by Elling and Marsalis Religion or jazz: that’s the career choice, in a way, that Kurt Elling made […]
Read More…A Reunion Tribute to Erroll Garner (Produced by Ernest McCarty Jr.)
June 13, 2018
If you enjoyed just about every note played by the one and only pianist Erroll Garner as this writer did (remember especially the fabulous Concert By the Sea album?) you need to know immediately that you will hear no Garner here.
Read More…Hot Wax – August/September 2017
September 5, 2017
Jazz album reviews for August and September 2017.
Read More…Hot Wax: Album Reviews – May 2017
May 1, 2017
Bill O’Connell Monk’s Cha Cha – Live at the Carnegie-Farian Room (Savant) Bill O’Connell – solo piano Pianist Bill O’Connell is something of a self-effacing jazz player – though he’s been active since the 1970s, he’s helmed only about a dozen albums since 1978. But O’Connell has kept very busy, accompanying Sonny Rollins and Chet […]
Read More…Hot Wax – Album Reviews: March 2017
March 20, 2017
Album reviews of new jazz releases – March 2017.
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