We’re
adding a couple of late-arriving Christmas releases to our line-up this week.
Twin Cities-based pianist Laura Caviani
unveils up “Holly, Jolly and Jazzy,” her second holiday disc and her first
since 1999. Laura has appeared with many jazz luminaries over the years,
including Karrin Allyson, Toot’s Thielemans and Bob Mintzer. This release
features her current trio mates, drummer Joe Pulice and bassist Gordon Johnson.
The Rob Parton Big Band out of
Chicago also has a new seasonal offering, “Christmas Time is Here.” This is a
compilation of some previously unreleased charts from over the past 15 years highlighted
by the work of noted Windy City players like Mark Colby, Bob Rummage and Byron
Stripling.
Canadian-born
trumpeter Kenny Wheeler is closing
in on his 84th birthday, which is coming up in January, but he continues to
remain active on the jazz scene. His new disc, “Six for Six,” features a sextet
which includes cohorts from his adopted British homeland. It’s a recording made
in Germany in 2008 but just getting its release for the first time. In his
liner notes, Scottish writer Brian Morton, who is co-author of “The Penguin
Guide to Jazz Recordings,” says, “Wheeler has never written more clearly and
luminously than here.”
Also this
week, 17-year-old organ prodigy Kevin
Coelho follows up his 2012 debut with “Turn It Up,” a new trio recording
with Derek DiCenzo on guitar and Reggie Jackson on drums; and the trio of
drummer Colin Stranahan, pianist
Glenn Zaleski, and bassist Rick Rosato, who formed in 2010 for a
special performance in Montreal, release their second CD, “Limitless.”
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