Corey Wilkes: Kind of Miles: Live at the Velvet Lounge (Katalyst)
Greg Spero Quartet: Radio over Miles (Katalyst)
These are not quite new releases (copyright 2011 and 2010 respectively), but they're new to me, and new enough that, in combination with their sterling quality and unjustly low profiles (outside Chicago, that is), a review seems eminently deserved. They are linked by more than the label releasing them (Chicago-based Katalyst Entertainment specializes in Chicago-linked jazz performers, both new releases and reissues). There's the Miles Davis repertoire reflected in the album titles, and three-quarters of Spero's band -- him, trumpeter Wilkes, and bassist Junius Paul -- is half of the sextet on Wilkes's album, with Spero's electric keyboards integral to the sound of both groups.
Newer release first. The idea of a trumpeter doing a Miles-themed album may seem too obvious to be more than a pale imitation, but Wilkes and the band have...
Greg Spero Quartet: Radio over Miles (Katalyst)
These are not quite new releases (copyright 2011 and 2010 respectively), but they're new to me, and new enough that, in combination with their sterling quality and unjustly low profiles (outside Chicago, that is), a review seems eminently deserved. They are linked by more than the label releasing them (Chicago-based Katalyst Entertainment specializes in Chicago-linked jazz performers, both new releases and reissues). There's the Miles Davis repertoire reflected in the album titles, and three-quarters of Spero's band -- him, trumpeter Wilkes, and bassist Junius Paul -- is half of the sextet on Wilkes's album, with Spero's electric keyboards integral to the sound of both groups.
Newer release first. The idea of a trumpeter doing a Miles-themed album may seem too obvious to be more than a pale imitation, but Wilkes and the band have...
- 7/15/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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