Rickie Lee Jones next in the GAS pipeline covers 'Just In Time' on her standards themed upcoming Pieces of Treasure

Here's an incredibly atmospheric version of the Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1950s Great American Songbook classic, 'Just in Time'. This intimate smoky take on the standard from singer Rickie Lee Jones in a stimulating dialogue with …

Published: 20 Jan 2023. Updated: 59 days.

Here's an incredibly atmospheric version of the Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1950s Great American Songbook classic, 'Just in Time'. This intimate smoky take on the standard from singer Rickie Lee Jones in a stimulating dialogue with the erstwhile Steps Ahead vibes great Mike Mainieri anticipates a new album in the spring.

'Just In Time' is from the 'Chuck E's in Love' hitmaker's Pieces of Treasure and is produced by Russ Titelman (famed for his work with Randy Newman and Stevie Winwood) who goes way back with Jones to the end of the 1970s and the singer's self titled debut and also includes Kurt Weill, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer songs.

The album personnel in addition to Mainieri includes pianist Rob Mounsey, guitarist Russell Malone, bassist David Wong and drummer Mark McLean. Bells Are Ringing musical number 'Just in Time' was introduced to the wider canon of popular music by Tony Bennett with Percy Faith and his Orchestra in 1956 and recent versions have included Eliane Elias' in 2013 and country icon Willie Nelson's in 2021. Pieces of Treasure is out in late April on BMG's Modern imprint.

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Jim Snidero, Far Far Away, Savant ****

One of the most convincing albums in the straightahead idiom to come our way in a long while this swerves away from being complacent or wallowing in what some wistfully refer to as the Golden Age - when modernistic jazz seemed to be finding …

Published: 20 Jan 2023. Updated: 59 days.

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One of the most convincing albums in the straightahead idiom to come our way in a long while this swerves away from being complacent or wallowing in what some wistfully refer to as the Golden Age - when modernistic jazz seemed to be finding solutions to the challenges thrown up by bebop in the 40s and modified in the subsequent couple of decades. Alto saxophonist Jim Snidero features Kurt Rosenwinkel, superb last year on Berlin Baritone, in a space that finds the altoist pushing from the centre moving outerwards in ever increasing circles to test just what is possible in the language he has long immersed himself in. Snidero has been making records for decades and his style and method seem to say ''if it ain't broke, don't fix it''. Here with the 64 year old US altoist's acclaimed Deer Head Inn band - ex-The Bad Plus pianist Orrin Evans who also was significant on classic JD Allen album Bloom, bass icon Peter Washington and swinger's swinger drummer Joe Farnsworth - the album includes Snidero originals plus Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers' 'It Might As Well Be Spring' from the film State Fair (1945) and a beautiful version of The Real McCoy classic 'Search For Peace' by McCoy Tyner. You can't fake what Snidero and the band do here. Far Far Away has deep maturity and professorial command of the bebop language and a study of flow in band play written in big letters all over it. Even more importantly it makes you listen harder and hear more. The title track is streaming. The album release date is 3 February