Audio
Pianist Louis Heriveaux Has a 'Triadic Episode' on Hot Shoe Records [REVIEW]
Ehud Asherie Jams on 'Shuffle Along' (Blue Heron). Somewhere Eubie Blake is Smiling [REVIEW]
'Shuffle Along' (Blue Heron Records) by Ehud Asherie is a gas gas gas. Ehud may look like a rock star but he's an excavator. For his 12th CD, he's excavated the music Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle wrote in 1921 for the first all-Black Broadway musical of the same name. Rather than treat it as a a museum relic, he uses it as the root for his playful experimentations. Pianist Roger Davidson is 'Live At Caffe Vivaldi Volume #3' on Soundbrush Records [REVIEW]
When pianist Roger Davidson wraps his fingers around Cole Porter's "I Love You," it's a sterling moment in time. Davidson has a knack for the romantic. His cover of Joseph Kosma's 1945 "Autumn Leaves" ends 'Live At Caffe Vivaldi Volume #3' (Soundbrush) on a similar misty-eyed note but it's his 14 originals that reek of inventive samba stylings that carry this project.
