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Christine Fawson: Sings Jazz

by Jack Bowers
Christine Fawson: a singer who plays trumpet or a trumpeter who sings? Flip a coin. Fawson carries out both assignments to good effect on her new CD but, considering its title, Sings Jazz, she seems to bend toward to former. Whatever the case, this much can be affirmed: Fawson is a performer who must be seen ...
Miles Donahue: The Bug

by Jack Bowers
People who have an aversion to bugs (do you know any?) may hesitate to purchase (or even review) an album whose title epitomizes the very thing they abhor. But even though multi-instrumentalist Miles Donahue's new album does nod to that often-despised creature and even includes a song by that name, there is more to it than ...
Tim Ray Trio: Windows

by Angelo Leonardi
Il pianista Tim Ray è noto soprattutto per le collaborazioni con protagonisti della musica pop (Lyle Lovett, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt) piuttosto che con jazzmen (Gary Burton, Esperanza Spalding, Phil Woods, Dave Douglas, Brian Blade, Lewis Nash) o con organici classici come la Boston Classical Orchestra. Professore associato al Berklee College of Music ...
Greg Abate with the Tim Ray Trio: Road to Forever

by Jack Bowers
Greg Abate's name isn't often broached when debating the merits of contemporary jazz saxophonists. It should be. While perhaps best known for his work on alto, the Rhode Island-based swinger proves on Road to Forever, recorded with his regular working trio, not only that his talents on soprano, tenor sax and flute are exemplary, but that ...
Tim Ray Trio: Windows

by Dan McClenaghan
The Tim Ray Trio supplied the spirited accompaniment on Kindred Spirits (Whaling City Sound, 2016), behind saxophonists Greg Abate and the legendary Phil Woods. But they got the chance to step out--sax men taking a break--with a peppery take on Kurt Weill's classic Speak Low," which serves as a preview of sorts for the Tim Ray ...
Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's

by Edward Blanco
Alto saxophonist Greg Abate is a man who has built a career as a powerhouse reed man and a proponent of the mainstream bebop style, earning the nickname the prince of bebop." One of the kings of the genre, is unquestionably the legendary Phil Woods who blazed that trail before Abate and others followed. Captured live ...
Greg Abate Quartet: Motif

by Edward Blanco
A traveling jazz master with an international reputation as one of the top-tier saxophonist in the business today, Greg Abate and his distinguished quartet unveils a new Motif of splendid bebop sounds which, for this artist, is natural recurring theme. An expert of the bebop/post-bop sound he has performed for most of his career, Abate is ...
Longing

By Kris Adams
Label: Jazzbird Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. The glide 5:24 (Ralph Towner / norma Winstone)
2. The Dawntreader 6:21 (Joni Mitchell)
3. Wrong Together 5:02 (Steve Swallow / Kris Adams)
4. When You Smile 4:59 (Joakim Breicha / Kris Adams)
5. All of You 5:12 (Cole Porter)
6. once Upon A Summertime 5:08 (Eddie Barclay / Michel Legrand / Johnny Mercer / Eddie Marnay)
7. Longing 4:42 (Fred Hersch / norma Winstone)
8. What’s Your Story Morning glory? 5:30 (Mary Lou Williams /
Jack Lawrence / Paul Webster)
9. Pulled Pork 4:43 (Kris Adams)
10. Você e Eu 5:08 (Carlos Lyra / Vinicius de Moraes)
11. You and Me Love 5:30 (Johnny Rotella / Abbey Lincoln)
Jan Shapiro: Piano Bar After Hours

by Dan Bilawsky
Vocalist Jan Shapiro is best known as an educational fixture at Berklee College of Music. She arrived at that venerable institution nearly three decades ago and she's shaped countless voices and careers in the intervening years, serving as teacher, role model and, for more than a decade, head of the vocal department in Berklee's Performance Division. ...