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While the critical jury is still out on his overall contribution to the form, the indisputable fact remains that until the arrival of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in California, Howard McGhee was the West Coast trail-blazing ebopper in residence. These early sides show him in top form,...

This Contemporary album has thus far only been reissued on LP. Three sessions taken from different periods are included, featuring different versions of the Lighthouse All-Stars. Howard Rumsey's group is heard on their second earliest session (their first was made for the tiny Skylark...

Trumpeter Howard McGhee, after spending much of the 1950s only partly active in music (due to drug problems), made a full-fledged comeback in the early '60s only to find his op-oriented music out of fashion. This Contemporary set (reissued on CD in the OJC series) was McGhee's finest...

Even with its deficiencies, this album is an important one. The first piece, "Patterns," recorded in low fidelity for Dutch radio and originally self-released in 1971, combines the playing of alto saxophonist Noah Howard with pianist Misha Mengelberg, guitarist Jaap Schoonhoven, and...

Ozzie Nelson was no Benny Goodman or Jimmy Dorsey, and his band wasn't up to those standards, but they were one of the most popular radio orchestras of their era. This collection of 16 songs, assembled from radio transcription recordings done in 1937, shows why -- they had a subtle but...

In the late 1990s, drummer Steve Smith set out to reinvigorate the long slumbering jazz-rock fusion movement with a series of all-star recordings on his own Tone Center record label. The Stranger's Hand is the best of the lot, with four instrumental masters coming together for nine days of...

Other than an album in 1966 and a few isolated numbers in 1970, trumpeter Howard McGhee made no recordings as a leader during 1963-75. In 1976 he started his final three years of recording activity with a date for Sonet and then this obscure effort for Steeplechase. McGhee shows some age in his...

Although best-known for his work in mainstream swing settings, guitarist Howard Alden has long been interested in later periods of jazz. On this superior outing, he doubles on seven-string acoustic and electric guitars (which allow him to add basslines). Lew Tabackin is on four of the ten...

This single CD put out by the Japanese Denon label has 23 of the 27 selections put out a decade earlier on a two-LP set. Worse than the omissions was the decision to duplicate the liner notes and reprint them so small as to be microscopic. The first half of this set is actually quite good,...

One of David Kikoski's strongest offerings, Inner Trust is a departure in that it focuses primarily on non-original material. Three of the ten tracks are by the pianist, but the rest are standards and jazz classics. Joined by Leon Parker on drums and fellow Roy Haynes sideman Ed Howard on...

Rosetta Howard, a potential "classic blues" singer, was probably born ten years too late, being far too young to be active in the 1920s when she might have made a bigger impact. Howard did record with the Harlem Hamfats in the late '30s and her five sessions as a leader are...

The lightly swinging singer Terrie Richards Alden's second CD is a series of intimate duets with her husband, the phenomenal guitarist Howard Alden. She savors each lyric with clear intonation, and has a knack for emphasizing the essence of each melody. Howard Alden, one of the greatest...

This two-year examination of McGhee's recorded work finds the trumpeter performing dates from the West Coast to New York and Chicago. The playing is stellar, and the bands feature notables like Dodo Marmarosa, James Moody, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, J.C. Heard, Milt Jackson, and Percy Heath....

Quasi new age with a small amount of jazz flavor. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

When an artist undertakes the project of learning, performing and recording the Complete works of any one composer, it is safe to assume that the artist has an affinity for that music. In the case of pianist Howard Shelley and the powerful music of Rachmaninov, nothing could be truer.Over the...

The Best of Eddy Howard is a single-disc, 25-track overview of his romantic pop hits recorded in the late 1940s. Among the standards interpreted by the vocalist are "The Nearness of You," "How Deep Is the Ocean?" "Stardust," and "I Got It Bad (And That...

For George Howard, Midnight Mood is business as usual, with the saxophonist (heard mostly on soprano) once again comfortable pursuing a pop/urban contemporary/jazz formula. Decent cuts include the haunting "Africa" and the sexy "Find Your Way" (which features R&B singer...

Because he chose to spend nearly his entire career as a studio guitarist, there are relatively few recorded examples of Howard Roberts as a bop-oriented jazz player. This 1998 CD has seven privately recorded performances of Roberts at the legendary Donte's club in Los Angeles during May...