DEBORAH SILVER - THE GOLD STANDARDS
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Florida-based singer Deborah Silver has earned the top slot, the #1 Billboard
magazine chart positions, in both the Traditional Jazz Album chart and the
Heatseeker Album chart with her release, The Gold Standards. The Gold Standards also earned the #2 spot on
the Billboard Jazz Album chart, the #10 spot on the Independent Album chart and
the #150 spot on the Billboard 200 chart. In the past
two months, former #1 artists on The Traditional Jazz Album Chart included
Frank Sinatra and Willie Nelson with Ultimate Sinatra and Summer Time: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, respectively. On The Gold
Standards, Silver duets with the legendary 2x Grammy-winning vocalist Jack
Jones on "I've Got a Crush on You" and the multi-platinum jazz singer
Ann Hampton Callaway on "The Glory of Love." The Gold Standards was produced by
Grammy-winning producer Steve Tyrell and music producer Jon Allen. "I'm
thrilled! It is a tremendous honor to be named the #1 artist in any one
category, but to land the top spot on two Billboard charts is extremely
humbling. I am so grateful to everyone
who has worked on this project including my producers Steve Tyrell and Jon
Allen, my arranger, Alan Broadbent, and the iconic vocalists Jack Jones and
Anne Hampton Callaway," says Silver.
"The Billboard recognition is incredible, yet it inspires me to
push myself to work even harder. I am very thankful to everyone who has
supported this album."
GREGORY TARDY - CHASING AFTER THE WIND
Gregory Tardy's turned into a reedman with a great ability
for complex soundshapes – these beautiful phrasings and passages from his tenor
sax – yet always delivered in a way that never fails to swing with soul! On
this excellent set, Tardy and his musical associates paint these lovely
pictures in sound – but also find a way to groove in the process – stepping off
especially well on Gregory's own original compositions, which are taken in very
long, vivid performances! The whole lineup is great – and includes Alex Norris
on trumpet and Sam Sadigursky on flute – both players whose lines with Tardy
really give the album a lot of color and life – plus Bruce Barth on piano, Sean
Conly on bass, and Jaimeo Brown on drums. As always with the Steeplechase label
these days, there's a real "something extra" to the record – a
special quality to the whole thing that continues to make the label one of the
most important indies in jazz. Titles include "Gabriel's Groove",
"Chasing After The Wind", "The Evidence Of Things Not Seen",
"Companion Of My First Heartbeat", "Dance For Marie Do",
and "Ashes". ~ Dusty Groove
JASON PALMER - BEAUTY IN NUMBERS: THE SUDOKU SUITE
Jason Palmer's given us some great concept projects in
recent years – including albums based around the music of Minnie Riperton and
Janelle Monae – but this time around, the concept is all Palmer's own – and a
great one too! As the title might imply, the music here is based around the
numeric patterns of the game sudoku – but, as you might expect from Palmer, the
results are anything but cold and calculating – as Jason's style of trumpet
work is extremely open, fluid, and filled with soul – so much so that although
his notes give us the mathematical logic behind the tunes, we find ourselves
just responding to them at a much more visceral, personal level! The album's a
long one – over 75 minutes in length, with 16 titles in all – and Palmer's
group is unusual, too – with Mike Moreno on guitar, Edward Perez on bass, and
Lee Fish on drums – a quartet who often leave Jason right out front on trumpet,
shaping his notes with a mindblowing sense of imagination. Titles include
"Obsessive", "Now", "Control", "Thanks",
"Guidance", "Of Fun & Games", and "Allow Me To
Be". ~ Dusty Groove
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