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Album of the Day 10/26/11
As we usually do every day, our 1000 best albums of all time countdown continues all the way to #1. Wednesday’s album is #462: Jazz on a Summer’s Day This is a case where you really should get the...
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Wadada Leo Smith Does It Again
Forget for a minute that Wadada Leo Smith’s new album Dark Lady of the Sonnets, with his trio Mbira, is a summit meeting of three of the most compelling voices in jazz improvisation. More than...
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Gorgeous Torchy Jazz Reinventions from Catherine Russell
Eclectic chanteuse Catherine Russell’s new album Strictly Romancin’ may have been timed to a Valentine’s Day release, but it transcends anything that might imply. A Louis Armstrong homage of sorts...
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Svetlana and the Delancey Five Salute Ella and Satchmo and Put Their Own...
It figures that drummer Rob Garcia would grab the opportunity to kick off Svetlana & the Delancey Five‘s show at Lucille’s Friday night with a counterintuitive series of offbeats into a hi-de-ho...
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Trumpeter James Williams with Svetlana & the Delancey Five: Midnight at Noon...
“”They let you in here?” the leader of Svetlana & the Delancey Five asked the writer, scrunching up her face. “No, they didn’t,” the writer answered truthfully. “Your trumpet player did.” “It’s...
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Svetlana & the Delancey Five: New York’s Most Unpredictably Fun Swing Band
Since swing jazz is dance music, most swing bands have limitations on how far out on limb they can go. After all, you’ve got to keep everybody on their feet, right? Svetlana & the Delancey Five are...
View ArticleGuitarist Kurt Leege Reinvents Jazz Classics As Envelopingly Ambient, Richly...
There’s considerable irony in that Kurt Leege, one of the most interesting guitarists in all of ambient music, first made his mark as a feral lead player, beginning with Curdlefur, then Noxes Pond and...
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