Hiromi Voice (Telarc) Virtuoso keyboardist Hiromi doesn’t feature vocals on her recording [i]Voice[i]. Rather, the album title alludes to the musical expression of her own true voice. And that it is. While Hiromi draws from various influences, she’s primarily inspired by Western musical traditions. The title track, for example, starts [...]
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Pat Metheny What’s it All About
Friday, October 21st, 2011Pat Metheny What’s it All About (Nonesuch) For his first-ever project of non-original compositions, Pat Metheny found a title within the Burt Bacharach classic “Alfie,” which he expansively explores for nearly eight minutes here. Yet, the titular question may be answered in various ways, depending upon which faction of Metheny’s [...]
Read more >>Roy Haynes Roy-alty
Friday, October 21st, 2011Roy Haynes Roy-alty (Dreyfus Jazz) Longevity is now merely a given in the brilliant career of Roy Haynes. The drummer’s professional path stretches from ’40s and ’50s work with Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sarah Vaughan and Thelonious Monk to superb trio sessions with Danilo Pérez and John Patitucci in the [...]
Read more >>Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol. 2
Friday, October 21st, 2011Sonny Rollins Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy) A live album is supposed to make listeners feel as if they’re at a concert, with the artist or a band expanding upon or radically reshaping well-known material. Unfortunately, some live albums send the message: “You really had to be there.” And while this [...]
Read more >>Luther Allison at His Finest
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Ruf Records recently released a live two-disc CD/DVD set by the late bluesman Luther Allison that, in all regards, absolutely smokes. Recorded onstage at the 1997 Montreal Jazz Festival — just four days before Allison was diagnosed with the terminal cancer that took his life one month later — Songs [...]
Read more >>Leonard Cohen in 1970
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009On October 20, Columbia Legacy released a two-disc DVD+CD package titled Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970. Cohen is many things – among them, a poet, novelist, songwriter, guitarist and singer – but what he’s assuredly not is a jazz musician. That said, even for a diehard [...]
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