[JPL] Still Another Jaz Show July 30

Sat Aug 4 02:24:44 EDT 2007

STILL ANOTHER JAZZ SHOW    July 30
KIKO LOUREIRO     “Feijao de Corda”   UNIVERSO INVERSO
Boossweet Records
BOBBY SANABRIA BIG BAND 	“57th Street Mambo””El Ache'
De Sanabria En Moderacion” BIG BAND URBAN FOLKTALES   
Jazz Heads Records
MANUEL VALERA   'So You Say”  VIENTOS    Anzic Records
DAYNA STEPHENS    “Lost And Found”  THE TIMELESS NOW  
CTA Records
GINO SITSON  “Wailin”    BAMISPHERE      Polyvocal
Records
STEVE KAHN   “I Mean You”  BORROWED TIME   Tone Center
Records
JERI BROWN  “No Moon At All”  THE BEST OF JERI BROWN  
Justin Time Records
PAUL ZAUNERS BLUE BRASS  “African Market Place”  SOIL 
 BluJazz Label
LUIS BONILLA   “Up Easy”  “Mambostinato”  TROMBONILLA 
Terminal Clarity
Now Jazz Consortium
WE ALL LOVE ELLA    Nikki Yanofsky   “Air Mail
Special”  Verve Music
VINCE NORMAN/JOE McCARTHY BIG BAND    “Remember Me
When”  WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS    OA2 Records
KENDRA SHANK   “The Music Is The Magic”  A SPIRIT FREE
 Abby Lincoln Songbook   Challenge Records   
ALEXA WEBER MORALES    “Habanera” 
VAGABUNDEO/WANDERINGS
Patois Records  
CHICK COREA & BELA FLECK   “Senorita”   ENCHANTMENT 
Concord Jazz

Young Jazz metal Brazilian guitarist KIKO LOUREIRO
begins SAJS with “Feijao de Corda” from his new
UNIVERSO INVERSO cd.   The Jan Hammer/ Jeff Beck
collaboration.   Louriero has that edgy touch and
Yaniel Matos provides excellent acoustic counterpoint.
And the bossa influence  is below the surface energy
in “Havana,”“Anastacia.”  The energy on this cd is
refreshing.
Percussionist, leader, educator BOBBY SANABRIA is next
with his great new cd, BIG BAND URBAN FOLKTALES. Born
and raised in the Bronx, where this music was regular
as Saturday night. A student at Berklee and a regular
in Manhattan Afro Jazz scene,  Bobby Sanabria and this
music has all that magic.   
You hear it from the stoops to the roof tops. The
arrangements are very sophisticated, funky, very
Kenton  and Mongo Santamaria.  We played “57th Street
Mambo” and “El Ache De Sanabria En Moderacion.”  
Sanabria's new cd is a definite 'smoker.'   
MANUEL VALERA continues the Afro bop Latin connection
with his latest, VIENTOS, a combined Latin jazz 
romance, especially with the title tune with replete
with soaring woodwinds, Joel Frahm “Getzian” verve and
robust arranging. Manuel Valera is growing as a
composer/arranger/pianist before our very ears. It was
all there in early on. Now it's flourishing.  We
played “So You Say,” a nice punchy piece with time
signature interludes  with a firm hand of drummer
Ernesto Simpson and bassist James Genus.   (Cudos to
Joe Farla for this marvelous recording.)
Saxophonist, DANA STEPHENS  begins the second segment
of SAJS  with his debut cd   THE TIMELESS NOW.  The
raves on this Bay Area reed player are most deserved.
Dayna Stephens soulful articulation and lyricism are
genuine. He's a  player with imaginative conception
and maturity. Comparisons to Wayne Shorter are
relevant here.  This is also an interesting venue for
pianist Taylor Eigsti.  What more can anyone say about
John Scofield and  his typically exceptional
performance. These two help drive this new project by
Dayna Stephens. We played “The Lost And Found,” a
loose moody romantic piece in the frame of Wayne
Shorter. 
A marvelous first trip for this complete young
saxophonist.
Percussionist GINO SITSON is next with his new
BAMISPERE CD.   Sitson is a West Camaroon jazz
musician with a sound similar to Richard Bonfa.  We
played “Wailin.” The vocalize is very natural and
reminiscent of Bobby McFerrin.  Latin jazz pianist
Helio Alves contributes, along with Ron Carter and
Jeff 'Tain' Watts contribute to make this cd a nice
groove.
Guitarist, STEVE KHAN follows with a Latin version on
Monk's “I Mean You.” Khan's one of my favorites.
Reminds me of Hungarian jazz guitarists  Atilla Zollar
and Gabor Zsabo, especially on this tune. There must
be gypsy that flows through Khan's fingers. Not a bad
gig for the son of Sammy Khan.
JERI BROWN  concludes this segment with “No Moon At
All,”  a duet with Fred Hersch from her latest, NEW
WONDERLAND:  THE BEST OF JERI BROWN cd.   
Jeri Brown is one of the unsung heroes in modern jazz
with technically superior knowledge and style.  She
sounds proficient, razzmatazz in style on Jimmy Rowles
“Old Orleans.”  Rowles accompanies on piano along with
the great Eric Von Essen on bass. Nice way to end an
perfect evening on Melrose, yet the first hour of
SAJS.
Austrian trombonist, PAUL ZAUNER begins with a Dollar
Brand composition, a long and beautiful “African
Market Place.” His group, BLUE BRASS.  His new cd,
SOIL.  This has all the right moves of beautiful brown
ladies moving their hips.  Charles Mingus would love
it.  Isn't that what this music is all about?! (A long
slow romance, not a wham bam, thank you, mam!) 
Trombonist LUIS BONILLA  is next and concludes this
segment with “Up Easy” and  “Mambostinato,” two very
European obstinate post modern reflections, yet still
heroic in a masculine gender.   It's like Saheeb
Shihaab, the Latin post modern reedist, nowhere to be
seen and out of sight with other more post modern
lyricists, Donny McCaslin and Peter Brainin on vestal
reeds. That's why we have the saxophone!
SAJS last segment begins with one of Ella's scat
favorites “Airmail Special,” right before Ella and
Stevie Wonder's “You Are The Sunshine Of My Life” on
this the tribute album, WE ALL LOVE ELLA.   Are you
ready!   “Airmail Special” is performed by Montreal's
own Nikki Yanofsky. And if you want some great scat
skirty tune in on this air mail special, for this is
when planes have props, not jets.
And profs to Nikki Yanofsky, who cops the Lady of Song
on the hereabouts.  Oh, if I could still dance fast,
I'd be jitterbugging on this one.
When you listen to this, know in fact that Nikki
Yanovsky is twelve years old! 
VINCE NORMAN/JOE McCARTHY BIG BAND  is next with their
swinging new  WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS cd. This is right
from ye olde school of Ted Heath and after dom, only
more swinging in a frenetic swinging manner, for this
band is juiced up to swing. “Tadd's Delight” is an
early morning quick cup of coffee on the Eisenhower to
downtown Chicago. And I swear, if Starbucks raises
their rates again, I'll make my own. We played
“Remember Me When...” with Tim Stanley on trumpet.
Harry Appleman, piano \, Vince Norman alto and Gary
Malvaso on guitar. Then “Words Cannot Express” will
take you back to those swinging good times. 
Then vocalist KENDRA SHANK sings from the ABBIE
LINCOLN SONGBOOK on her new SPIRIT FREE cd. We played
the first song, “The Music Is The Magic.” And the
great musicians to appear here are, Billy Drewes,
saxophone, Frank Kimbrough, piano, Ben Monder, guitar,
Dean Johnson, Tony Moreno and Gary Versace on
accordian. What a band to handle this woman's song! 
ALEXA WEBER MORALES is next from her new WANDERINGS
cd. Morales is multi lingual, equally versatile in
English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. And she sings
the theme song for Baghdad Cafe, “I Am Calling
You,”accapella just like the Swingle Singers from
Paris.   We played the popular “Habanera, a classical
nuance by Georges Bizet.
CHICK COREA and BELA FLECK  combine with a most
interesting album on the new, THE ENCHANTMENT cd.     

Bela Fleck is a very progressive banjo player,
proficient in blue grass and other languages and Chick
Corea, a prominent jazz pianist. These two team up in
a charming duet. We concluded with “Senorita.” 
This sort of pickin and fussin is an emergence of two
different languages into one. And isn't what this
music is about!
Til next time.

Dick Crockett
Still Another Jazz Show
Mondays, 10 am & 10pm, Pacific
“The Voice” 88.7 fm
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, Ca. 95819-4743
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