A 2022 Seattle studio recording quartet album recorded in a single day from Jared Hall. It features 8 of the trumpeter's originals including tributes to Roy Hargrove, Brian Lynch - led off by bassist Michael Glynn - Woody Shaw, Wallace Roney and …
Published: 18 Jun 2024.Updated: 12 days.
A 2022 Seattle studio recording quartet album recorded in a single day from Jared Hall. It features 8 of the trumpeter's originals including tributes to Roy Hargrove, Brian Lynch - led off by bassist Michael Glynn - Woody Shaw, Wallace Roney and Tom Harrell plus an interpretation of Gigi Gryce's 'Minority' that has a very fine a cappella introduction by Hall. He hails from Spokane, Washington where he is director of jazz studies at the city's Whitworth University, his alma mater, located some 280 miles from Seattle.
Gigi Gryce's 'Minority' goes back to a Gryce-Clifford Brown 1953 sextet recording and has been covered in the last 20 years by such contrasting players in different settings as George Colligan more experimentally, Anthony Braxton so demurely and Cyrus Chestnut in bravura swinging fashion
With Hall it's pianist Tal Cohen, Glynn and drummer John Bishop. A nostalgic affair steeped in a belief in the icons and certain core and enduring traditions, Influences is released on Friday - Woody Shaw tribute 'Song for Shaw' drawn from the album is streaming.
Madeleine Peyroux and Jon Herington, above, who wrote all the mighty songs on Let's Walk. Herington from the Dan contributes lots of choice bottleneck and squally, deftly chugging, electric guitar.
Vintage once again clinches the deal. Madeleine …
Madeleine Peyroux and Jon Herington, above, who wrote all the mighty songs onLet's Walk. Herington from the Dan contributes lots of choice bottleneck and squally, deftly chugging, electric guitar.
Vintage once again clinches the deal. Madeleine Peyroux's strongest material in simply years, the American singer who rocketed to crossover jazz acclaim out of nowhere with her utterly distinctive bluesy style in the 1990s with Atlantic album Dreamland and later even more profile and sales in 2004 with the Larry Klein produced Careless Love, the best of the new songs on Let's Walk is easily 'Showman Dan' and the hard-hitting sociopolitically inspired very poetic meditation, 'How I Wish,' like a parable of post-George Floyd modern day America when we are yet to hear ''freedom ring'' - the great desire of Martin Luther King and surely all sane thinkers the world since.
Peyroux's first album in six years the beautifully pieced together video for 'Showman Dan' issued with the song gives a glimpse of performance footage, home movies and personal photos in the eponymous Dan's honour with a young, yet-to-be-discovered Peyroux in the frame.
Lightly zydeco coated
Memories of Peyroux's longtime friend and mentor Daniel William Fitzgerald - the Showman Dan of the title, who passed away in 2017 - personalise the lightly zydeco coated album in the styling with memories of him in keeping with the singer's sometimes nostalgic, maudlin, vintage style delivered with her trademark salty ache, bittersweet tones and bluesy connotations. Personnel on this co-produced Elliot Scheiner album of Peyroux and Herington's, recorded in a Rhinebeck, New York state, studio not too far from Poughkeepsie last August and September, also includes pianist-organist Andy Ezrin who proves a little Allen Toussaint-like in places, bass guitarist Paul Frazier and drummer-percussionist Graham Hawthorne. Singers Catherine Russell, Cindy Mizelle and Keith Fluitt do backing vocals - clarinettist Stan Harrison pops up on 'Nothing Personal.' We took the CD for a bumpy drive down through the Irish border country badlands last week and it proved a great companion.
'Me and the Mosquito' is amusing and live is bound to tickle the audience. The bilingual Madeleine sings French on 'Et Puis.'
Soho photos: marlbank
Out on 28 June. Peyroux plays the Barbican's Summer Jazz Series in London on 21 July.ThreeLet's Walktracks - 'Showman Dan,' 'How I Wish' and yes 'Please Come On Inside' mentioned up top - are streaming
