New Music Monday: Live at No Black Tie, Sing to the World, & Tough Baritones
Jeremy Monteiro-Jay Anderson-Lewis Nash Trio – “Live at No Black Tie-Kuala Lumpur”
Jeremy Monteiro is a jazz pianist, singer, composer, and music educator. In his native country he was named “Singapore’s King of Swing” by the local press. He was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2002. Jeremy has played at jazz festivals all around the globe and has accompanied jazz giants touring Singapore. This recording displays how swinging he sounds in concert.
Benito Gonzalez – “Sing to the World”
The Venezuelan pianist Benito grew up in Caracas listening to the only jazz station of the capital city absorbing all he could which he added to his Venezuelan folk music traditions he learned form his parents-both musicians. As a young man, Gonzalez relocated to New York to further his jazz studies and begin his professional career. For his latest offering he is joined by Christian McBride, Nicholas Payt
13 March 2021
Brian Charette thinks like a jazz organist and like a rock and roll lover, both, so his latest recording for his four-woodwind sextet testifies.
On the one hand, Charette’s latest release,
Power from the Air, is a classic jazz organ session, with Charette’s Hammond B3 swelling, shimmering, and providing the bass lines as it grooves with drummer Brian Fishler, saxophone solos riding on top. The grooves are powerful and swinging you can tell that Charette has never skimped on the Jimmy Smith or Jimmy McGriff listening that Hammond B3 specialists need to have in their blood stream. It’s not just the organ prowess (and Charette has plenty of that), but it is the dedication to organ bands as hard charging jazz bands with a greasy sense of pop and shuffle in their style. “Fried Birds” opens the recording just like that: an uptempo blues that flies because Charette’s feet and Fishler’s snare and ride and like identical twins spurring each other on at every s
Amy Cervini
Hailed by Time Out New York for tearing down boundaries between old and new jazz styles, rock, pop, country and more, Toronto-born, New York-based vocalist Amy Cervini follows up her 2014 Anzic release Jazz Country with th.
more »e gritty, blues-oriented No One Ever Tells You. Joined by her brilliant longtime cohorts Jesse Lewis (guitar), Michael Cabe (piano), Matt Aronoff (bass), Jared Schonig (drums) and special guest organist Gary Versace (on four cuts), Cervini puts her stamp on songs that have resonated with me as a mother, as a partner, and as a woman, she writes in her album notes. They are songs about love, struggle, and empowerment. There s a decisively biting, almost rock-inflected sensibility coursing through No One Ever Tells You. Cervini projects a fine, assertive voice, limber and free in her phrasing, ranging widely in her sources: the group interprets songs by everyone from Lyle Lovett to Rodgers & Hammerstein, playfully yet with a serious e
December 22, 2020
Thomas Giampietro
UMass Amherst jazz lecturer Thomas Giampietro has released his newest CD, entitled “A Thru-Composed Life,” on Ear Up Records. This is Giampietro’s second recording as bandleader following 2013’s A Faith Rewarded.” In addition to Giampietro on drums, the new CD also includes Jonathan Kreisberg (guitar), Gary Versace (organ) and special guest trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. The new release consists entirely of new instrumental compositions by Giampietro, all of which are all autobiographical in nature. The eight tracks are organized sequentially to reveal the composer’s reflections on a particular period in his life from his vantage point in the present moment. “The album as a whole represents a broad picture timeline of my life as I see it now,” commented Giampietro in the CD’s liner notes. In reflecting on the revelations achieved in the course of creating this “musical autobiography,” Giampietro sounded a cautionary note: “T
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