Jazz/Blues
Rick Bogart Trio Celebrate the Clarinet at New York Yankee Steakhouse
It is 'Present Time' for the Matt Parker Trio on New BYNK Records Release [REVIEW]
Leave it to Matt Parker to follow up his 2013 'Worlds Put Together' debut-which had his tenor sax augmented by bass, drums, piano, guitar and alto sax-with 'Present Time' (on his own BYNK Records), surrounded by only bass (Alan Hampton) and drums (Reggie Quinerly). It's a brave, bold move. No piano or guitar to fill in the chord changes? Parker also blows some soprano here as well as pounding a big gong. Pianist/Composer Julian Shore Asks 'Which Way Now?' on New Tone Rogue Records Release [REVIEW]
You have to be damn near genius to get a full-boat scholarship to Berklee but Julian Shore's 'Which Way Now?' (Tone Rogue Records) realizes that grandiose perception. Rather than being tongue-tied into existential crisis by asking that titular musical question, Shore has no such directional problem. He's staked his claim by traversing Classical, Folk and Cabaret that somehow remains all jazz.
