Roger Kellaway Archive
Best of the year Discs for 2017 — Jazz Selections I
A few of the noteworthy Jazz releases from this past year, selected by our reviewers… Delfeayo Marsalis: An Evening with Delfeayo Marsalis – Troubadour Jass Records TJR 093017 Like father, like son… Review Link Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway – Just Friends Live @ The Village Vanguard – Resonance Records HCD2028 Another sharp arrow in Resonance Records’ quiver… Review Link Sherman Irby & Momentum – Cerulean Canvas- Black Warriors Records BWR 1006 Flat out great…! Review Link Sean Jones – Live from Jazz at the Bistro – Mack Avenue Records MAC 1111 Sean Jones heats up The Jazz Bistro… Review Link Art Pepper & Bill Watrous- West Coast Sounds, vol. 4- (reissue)- Omnivore Records OVCD 225 (1979) Alto and trombone, a mellow blend… Review Link Steve Davis – Think Ahead – Smoke Sessions Records SSR 1704 Steve Davis comes through again on Think Ahead… Review Link Thelonious Monk – Les Liaisons Dangeureuses (1960) Sam Records/SAGA (2 LP) Monk’s only recorded movie soundtrack – from original session tapes, now in remastered sound… Review Link Organissimo – B3tles: A Soulful Tribute to the Fab 4 – Big O 2424 B-3 trio plus […]
Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway – Just Friends: Live at the Village Vanguard – Resonance Records
Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway – Just Friends: Live at the Village Vanguard – Resonance Records HCD 2028, 57:57 – [Recording Date: 11/26/88, Street Date: 9/29/17] ****1/2: Another sharp arrow in Resonance Records’ quiver… (Eddie Daniels – clarinet; Roger Kellaway – piano; Buster Williams – bass; Al Foster – drums) George Klabin and Zev Feldman the “jazz detectives” at Resonance Records, continue to provide the jazz community with previously unissued jazz recordings, largely from the 1970s through the end of the 20th Century. Many of them were recorded in Europe from the vaults of radio and TV stations on the continent. Their latest release comes from much closer to the jazz mecca in the US, New York City. It was recorded by Klabin himself, who revisited it recently, and decided it was too good not to share with jazz fans. Klabin sat in the front row of the Village Vanguard club, armed only with a Dolby cassette recorder and a single Sony electric condenser microphone. The finished recording provides a perfectly acceptable document of an outstanding set from a remarkable quartet of Eddie Daniels on clarinet, Roger Kellaway on piano, Buster Williams on bass, and Al Foster on drums. The sound […]
Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels – Duke at the Roadhouse – IPOGeorge Shearing at Home – JazzKnight Records
Two CDs featuring top pianists in a more chamber music setting.
Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway – Live at Library of Congress – IPO
The duo provides some fresh and very enjoyable listening.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
