[JPL] Bopndicks 10 picks March 2008

[Dick Crockett]

Bopndicks 10 picks March 2008
CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON  THE NEW CRYSTAL SILENCE
Concord Jazz   To hear these two perform together is
to cherish the art of jazz.
JOE BECK & JOHN ABERCROMBIE   COINCIDENCE     Whaling
City Sound
Two great jazz guitarists performing at such a high
level is a treat, more than coincidence. 
WESTCHESTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA   ALL IN   WJO Productions
Mike Holober's inventive arrangements more than make
the score as he out performs every time.
CONRAD HERWIG    A JONES FOR BONES TONES  Criss Cross
Jazz
Mr Conrad Herwig teams with Mr Steve Davis as they
jostle fond memories of the Kai Winding/J.J. Johnson
tandem another high trombone culture. This time Orrin
Evans, Boris Koslow and Donald Edwards pitch in for
more fond memories.
PHIL WOODS AND CARL SAUNDERS   PLAY HENRY MANCINI 
JAZZED MEDIA
There are many Phil Woods-West Coat fans who love this
post modern Henry Mancini interchange.
MELODY GARDOT   WORRISOME HEART  Verve Music
Relax, think back and cool it, this young lady went
through a life transforming experience and came out
channeling Edith Piaf and Billy Holiday.
ROBERTA PIKET TRIO      LOVE AND BEAUTY  Thirteenth
Note Records
Think about it, a soft ware engineer who can fix your
PC and play piano like this. A marriage made in
heaven. 
PS:  Introduce her to your mother and specify she's
more now in modern times than Benny Goodman. 
AQUILES BAEZ    LA PATILLA    Cacao Musica
Venezuelan guitarist Aquiles Baez and the brier
outback including reed player, Anat Cohen. Each one
helps another along.
ARI BROWN    LIVE AT THE GREEN MILL   Delmark Records
Explosive Chicago tenor comes together with straight
ahead emotion in the key of mysterioso. 
GONZALO RUBALCABA    AVATAR       EMI Records
Gonzalo Rubalcaba creates a merging of two elements of
his music, Latin artistry to more free form alliance
with modern jazz.
ONES TO WATCH:
SAM BARSH  I FORGOT WHAT YOU TAUGHT ME   Razdaz
Recordz
An inventive keyboard player, Barsh with inner tempo
reharmonization takes cool funk to atmospheric levels.
Before you know you're at 30,000 feet heading on a
flight course to a trans world effect.
HORACE SILVER   LIVE AT NEWPORT 1958   emi /
Horace Silver heightens his popularity with this live
stint at Newport in !958, remastered in glorious form
by now in the midst of Silver's hard bop cult status
and inspired by
Louis Smith-trumpet,  Junior Cook- tenor saxophone and
 Detroiters, Gene Taylor-bass and Louis Hayes on
drums. Newport news...A hard bop celebration. 
ELLI FORDYCE with JIM MALLOY    SOMETHING COOL  
ellifordyce at msn.com
There's no rush, no hurry let lovely waves of Elli
Fordyce tempo and interpretive lyrics,  overcome you.
GRANT STEWART      YOUNG AT HEART   Sharp Nine Records
Let Grant Stewart perk you with “Jackie Mac,” rumba
you in Hefti's “Repetition”  and end a perfect romance
with “You're My Thrill.”   The deep blue indigo of his
tone is as smooth as butterscotch pudding.
Dick Crockett
“The Voice” 88.7fm
4623 T St. Suite A
Sacramento, Ca. 95819-4743



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