Tag: Palmetto Records
'REVIEW: The Fred Hersch Trio, 'Sunday Night at the Vanguard,' Palmetto Records
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'REVIEW: Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, 'Beginning of a Memory,' Palmetto Records
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. -
'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.