The Dining Rooms - Art Is A Cat
Maybe the best album we've ever heard from Dining Rooms – a set that has the group moving way past just makers of seductive grooves, into wider, fuller territory that definitely puts them at the top shelf level we love from the best at Schema Records! The album balances some of their earlier modes with really strong songs that feature a variety of different singers – including Sean Martin, Beatrice Velasco Moreno, and Georgeanne Kalweit – who each give the record a lot more lyrical power than before, and a strong presence on the vocal tracks that makes instrumental moments feel like well-placed interludes. Titles include "When You Died", "Little Girl", "Art Is A Cat", "Carpet Of Green", "Nella Sua Loca Realta", "Ghosts", "Two Thousand Parts", "No Frame", "Teach Me To Dance", and "Astratto". ~ Dusty Groove
Jeremy Pelt - Art Of Intimacy
The title's no lie, as the set's one of the most intimate
albums we've ever heard from trumpeter Jeremy Pelt – a set that features his
well-shaped lines in a trio with George Cables on piano and Peter Washington on
bass! The drum-less format is really wonderful, and Pelt really takes advantage
of the open space to open up his gentler, more introspective side – blowing
notes both muted and full, with a sense of balance and grace that takes us back
to old school trumpet ballad albums – although none of them ever had the more
open, relaxed approach that makes this one so nice! Titles include "Then
I'll Be Tired Of You", "Always On My Mind", "Ebony
Moonbeams", and "Love Is Simple". ~ Dusty Groove
Sinne Eeg & The Danish Radio Big Band – We’ve Just Begun
Already a bona fide star in her native Denmark, jazz singer
Sinne Eeg has in recent years been weaving her spell in performances throughout
Europe and the United States, where audiences and critics alike have responded
enthusiastically to her dark, alluring voice, rich timbre, impeccable
intonation, inherent sense of swing and remarkably natural scatting ability
that recalls her own vocal jazz heroes, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and
Anita O’Day. On We’ve Just Begun, her winning collaboration with the 19-piece
Danish Radio Big Band and 9th album overall, Eeg sings with signature
soulfulness, sassy spirit and jazzy abandon on a program of three well-chosen
standards, a swinging adaptation of a tune from a vintage Danish film, and five
affecting originals with Eeg as composer and/or lyricist. Eeg released her
self-titled debut in 2003 and gained international attention with her
critically acclaimed 2007 album, Waiting for Dawn, and Remembering You in 2008.
Her latest, We’ve Just Begun, is her most impressive outing to date.
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