jazz2love

Album:  Small Things Artist:  Jackson Potter Label: Shifting Paradigm Records Website:  jacksonpottermusic.com Small Things , the sophomore project from guitarist-composer Jackson Potter demonstrates his growth as a guitarist, composer, and arranger since moving to New York City in 2021.  His disc features several jazz luminaries, including Alex Ridout on trumpet, Troy Roberts on tenor saxophone, Hamish Smith on bass, and Marcello Cardillo on drums.  Additionally, saxophonist Jaleel Shaw and vocalist Sophia Formella perform on the title track. Potter's offering displays a free-style playing reminiscent of pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist Stan Getz, and guitarist Wes Montgomery.  The environment merges bop, straight-ahead jazz, and fusion into dynamic creations.  Potter is a musician's musician, showing others of his ilk the potential that the guitar offers to work as a contributing element within the jazz combo framework. Illustrating a charismatic play...

Album:  Muagsician Artist:  Kristen R. Bromley Label:  KRBM, LLC Website:  www.kristenbromley.com Muagsician , a 2-disc, 25-track recording from Kristen R. Bromley features her talent as a guitar soloist and vocalist.  Displaying an affinity for jazz and blues, Bromley composes the rhythmic grooves, the chord patterns, and the improvised parts with pleasing precision.  The album is a collection of original selections, covers of jazz standards, and reworked arrangements of traditional folk hymns.  Eight tracks contain sung melodies performed by Bromley, accompanied by her guitar solos.  Wherever listeners go along the recording, the music showers them in warm sensations. The bluesy funk tint of her guitar strings stroking along "All Blues" exude a calmness through the ruminating ruffles that form an easygoing, rollicking rhythm.  From the frothy rustles of "Simply Miraculous" to the silky tresses of "Abide with Me; ‘Tis Eventide,” Bromley's fl...

Album:  Guitar & Me Artist:  Aleksi Glick Website:  https://www.aleksiglick.com/ Guitar and Me , the debut release from jazz guitarist Aleksi Glick features six original compositions written by him and seven covers.   Glick recorded  the solo arrangements for guitar while in isolation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  A mixture of hard bop, blues, improvised jazz, and adult contemporary, the arrangements roll along like a cool breeze ruminating across the aural senses.  His fretwork is nimble and graceful, stringing together a series of soothing and sizzling chord patterns reminiscent of the dexterity and expressive versing of Gene Bertoncini. Launching the recording with the hard bop grooves propelling "With Ease," Glick's deft performance radiates a modern jazz glint that modulates a bluesy whisper across the title track.  His graceful maneuvers induce a dreamy state that wraps the listener in emulsifying verses.  The misty ...