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Mack Avenue

Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver” — A Mighty Cheery Big Band

Inspired by their leader, bassist Christian McBride, the musicians in this big band always sound like they are having the times of their lives.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Christian McBride, For Jimmy, Joey DeFrancesco, Mack Avenue, Mark Whitfield, Wes and Oliver

Jazz Album Review: Pianist Erroll Garner — The Best Tunes Played with Mucho Gusto

Thanks to Octave and Mack Avenue Records, a significant section of pianist Erroll Garner’s storied career is back, sounding better than ever before.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Erroll Garner, Mack Avenue, Octave

Jazz Album Review: Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited” — Continuing the Struggle for Civil Rights

In this disc dedicated to black heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Christian McBride insists that everyone must be free if any of us is going to be.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Christian McBride, Mack Avenue, Michael Ullman, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons

Jazz CD Review: Pianist Erroll Garner — Remastered Sessions from His Prime

Octave is issuing twelve sessions (“newly restored and expanded”) of Erroll Garner material from the ’60s and ’70s, when the popular pianist was at the height of his career.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: A New Kind of Love, Closeup in Swing, Concert by the Sea, Dreamstreet, Erroll Garner, Mack Avenue, Michael Ullman, Octave Records, One World Concert

Jazz CD Review: Welcome Christian McBride’s “New Jawn”

One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Christian McBride, Christian McBride’s New Jawn, Mack Avenue

Jazz Preview: Luciana Souza’s “The Book of Longing” & Yellowjackets

Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Preview Tagged: Leonard Cohen, Luciana Souza, Mack Avenue, Raising Our Voice, Sunnyside, The Book of Longing, Yellowjackets

Jazz CD Review: Harold López-Nussa — Rhythms Charming and Churning

Pianist Harold López-Nussa is his own bold and expressive rhythm section.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Harold López-Nussa, Mack Avenue, Un Dia Cualquiera

Jazz CD Reviews: A Trio of Adventurous Jazz Vocalists

Three jazz singers go outside of the Great American Songbook — with entrancing results.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Concord, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dreams and Daggers, Grace, I'm Ready, Lizz Wright, Mack Avenue, Memphis ... Yes, Okeh

Jazz CD Review: “MONKestra, Volume Two” — Reinventing Monk

John Beasley and his big band doesn’t tame Monk or make him uncharacteristically pretty.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: John Beasley, Mack Avenue, MONKestra, Volume Two

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