Steve Voce, Author at Jazz Journal

Dick Collins And The Runaway Herd/His Orchestra: Horn Of Plenty

Steve Voce — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Trumpeter Collins plays perfectly well on this mid-50s collection, but the album is made by the arrangements of Al Cohn and Nat Pierce

Steve Voce — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:50:28 +0000

Q, along with Manny Albam and Neal Hefti, helped preserve the big band format in the 1950s as well as providing a platform for major soloists

Steve Voce — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:42:06 +0000

Standout 1983 Copenhagen session by a sometimes unreliable player, featuring Kirk Lightsey, David Eubanks and Eddie Gladden

Steve Voce — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:23:21 +0000

The singing is efficient, the backing good, but commercial pressure to follow a stereotype may have stunted London's individuality

Steve Voce — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:53:33 +0000

The saxophonist's blues-titled 1960 album had an attractive and atypical restraint and didn't always sound like the blues

Steve Voce — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:06:12 +0000

The virtuoso of quiet guitar is heard on the albums Earthy, Kenny Burrell, On View At The Five Spot Café and A Night At The Vanguard

Steve Voce — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:45:54 +0000

The pianist's 1956 album is combined with He's Here! He's Gone! He's Garner in a unflagging parade of dynamism and invention

Steve Voce — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:33:53 +0000

Reissue of box of five 10" LPs is an exact replica of the late 40s issue on Savoy and contains a wealth of long unavailable material

Steve Voce — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:34:05 +0000

The New Orleans trombonist is heard here 1922-59, leading his own bands and as sideman with such as Armstrong, Oliver, Dodds and Morton

Steve Voce — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:56:57 +0000

Of the two ways to spoil good jazz (the other being playing your own tunes) altoist Woods opted principally in 2005 for string backing