When you’re doing something you love, you find a way to continue to do it for as long as possible. Cost doesn’t matter and neither does compensation. In the case of composer/conductor Dave Rivello, his passion for jazz is indisputable. He continues to hone his craft day after day, playing with his Dave Rivello Ensemble once a… [Read more…]
July 5, 2009
With Jacám Manricks’ second recording as a leader, his desire to follow the melody wherever it goes subsequently produces the album’s title.Labyrinth is, for all intents and purposes, a series of pieces that express a slight sense of design followed through with some of the most brilliant and audacious exchanges of tension and release I’ve heard… [Read more…]
July 3, 2009
The combination of Johnny Mathis and Nelson Riddle is a natural one, especially given the amount of success Riddle had with the likes of Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. With Mathis being one of the top LP sellers of his day, it was only a matter of time before Riddle and he got to working… [Read more…]
July 20, 2009
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