The Classical test Source For All The Performing, Visual And Literary Arts & Entertainment News
Palmetto Records

It's 'Sunday Night at the Vanguard' with the Fred Hersch Trio on Palmetto Reccords [REVIEW]

What? You say you've never heard of pianist/composer/bandleader Fred Hersch? Just walk into the storied bowels of New York City's Village Vanguard and there on the wall, next to framed signed pictures of John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, is a picture under glass of Fred Hersch. 'Sunday Night at the Vanguard' (Palmetto) is the place to be.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family Recalls 'Beginning of a Memory' on Palmetto Records [REVIEW]

    Combining all three of his longstanding bands, drummer Matt Wilson has returned to the studio in full force with a Love Army of family and friends to pay tribute to violinist Felicia Wilson who performed on Matt's 2003 'Humidity,' became his wife and succumbed to leukemia in 2014. The result is a swinging session with moments of tender, bittersweet asides and studio banter. The star here is trumpeter Terell Stafford but the focus is cumulative...a joyous swingfest of epidemic proportions.
    By Mike Greenblatt

  • Mike Holober Achieves a Rare 'Balancing Act' on New Palmetto Release [REVIEW]

    Pianist and composer Mike Holober does indeed achieve a 'Balancing Act' on his new Palmetto Records release. The balance in question comes from creative use of Kate McGarry's vocals, sprinkled throughout all eight tracks of these elegant proceedings as if it were but another instrument...which, in a way, it is.
    By Mike Greenblatt