Over the weekend, I finally had a moment to trot out 19 albums I've been meaning to tell you about [photo above of Dusty Springfield]...
Freddie Hendrix: Jersey Cat (Sunnyside). Hendrix can deliver the hard-bop sizzle and sensitivity on trumpet and flugelhorn on this extraordinary gem. Go here.
Louis Heriveaux: Triadic Episode (Hot Shoe). Wow, Heriveaux is some pianist, here in a trio format. He's robust, in command and exhibits great taste. He's joined by Curtis Lundy (b) and Terreon Gully (d). Go here.
Jemal Ramirez: Pomponio (First Orbit). San Francisco hard-bop and Latin-jazz drummer fronts a sextet that has a Bobby Hutcherson feel, thanks to Warren Wolf on vibes. Go here.
Steve Kuhn: At This Time (Sunnyside). Kuhn is a piano legend who began his career gigging with Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker and Serge Chaloff. Here in the trio format with Steve Swallow (b) and Joey Baron (d), Kuhn chose a terrific mix of material, including the theme from The Pawnbroker. Go here.
Jim Rotondi: Dark Blue (Smoke). A killer release by trumpeter and flugelhornist Rotondi, backed by Joe Locke (vib), David Hazeltine (p), David Wong (b) and Carl Allen (d). The album lifts off splendidly. Go here.
Professor Longhair: Live in Chicago (Orleans). The New Orleans pianist was recorded live at the University of Chicago Folk Festival on Feb. 1, 1976. Go here.
Ernie Watts Quartet: Wheel of Time (Flying Dolphin). A former member of the Charlie Haden Quartet, Watts puts his heart into an album of originals. Go here.
The Mamas and the Papas: Complete Singles 50th Anniversary Collection (Real Gone). Double-CD set features more than 50 singles by the pop-folk group and the group's individual artists—a sound that instantly takes you back to a sunny day in the 1960s. Go here.
Magic Sam: Black Magic (Delmark). The superb Chicago blues guitarist-singer only recorded two studio albums before he died. This was the second, in 1968, and it's superb. Go here.
Piero Umiliani: Synthi Time and Fischiando in Beat (both on Sound Work). The late Italian film-score composer is best known in the States for his work with Chet Baker and Helen Merrill. Synthi Time (1971) was an experimental work with Umiliani on synthesizer while Fischiano in Beat (1968) is a hip, swinging '60s Italian space-age album. Go here and here.
Paul Nelson: Badass Generation (Friday Music). Blues-rock guitarist Nelson, who led Johnny Winter's backup band up until his death in 2014, blows the speakers off the wall on this full-throttle album of originals. Go here.
Jimmy Rogers: Complete Solo Chess Records As & Bs 1950-1959 (Jasmine). Twenty-six tracks by the Chicago blues singer-guitarist who worked with Muddy Waters' band in the early 1950s. Go here.
Huey "Piano" Smith: The Very Best of 1956-1962 Singles As & Bs (Jasmine). This New Orleans pianist fronted the Clowns and had solo hits and while backing other R&B artists. Go here.
Spring: Susie Arioli (Spectra). Vocalist Arioli has a swell relaxed voice and is supported by a mix of tasteful instrumental formats, including a Shearing-esque quintet on the song Spring, a superb original that will surely be a standard. Go here.
Trio Da Paz: 30 (Zoho). This bossa nova trio features Duduka Da Fonseca, Romero Lubambo and Nilson Matta. They sail though sophisticated, rhythmic originals. Go here.
Ian Carey: Interview Music (Kabocha). This abstract original suite for quintet led by trumpeter Carey has classical overtones and features bass clarinet and alto saxophone plus a trio. Go here.
The Oatmeal Jazz Combo: Instant Oats (Lay). This band was founded at Stony Brook University in 2009. The octet's name is delightfully odd, as is the inclusion of a jazz steel pan. It works wonderfully. Go here. Dig their interpretation of Antonio Carlos Jobim's Look to the Sky...
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