Chet Baker: Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective, 2CD) [B+(**)] Basie All Stars: Live at Fabrik Vol. 1: Hamburg 1981 (Jazzline) ** [B+(**)] Eddie Bert Sextet: The Human Factor (1987, Fresh Sound) ** [B+(**)] John Blum: Nine Rivers (2013...
Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland: United (2023 [2024], Edition): Guitarist-singer from Benin, debut 1997, perhaps best known for his 2008-15 series on Blue Note, moved to this label in 2020, as had the English bassist in 2019. Just the two of them, playing Loueke's songs, the minimal ...
Plumbs a deep blues base drawing on Charlie Patton and similarly influenced jazz musicians like Julius Hemphill and Marion Brown, tuned up to a fine fury. ** 24. Jimmy Greene: Flowers: Beautiful Life Volume 2 (Mack Avenue) Tenor saxophonist, based in Sandy Hook, CT, where his 6-year-...
Sweet Megg: My Window Faces the South (2022, Turtle Bay): Here's where she dons her cowboy hat, rejiggers her band around steel guitar and fiddle, and swings west, drawing several times on Bob Wills, with other songs like "Tennessee Waltz" and even "Stardust" not so far removed. B...