Summer Camargo, To Whom I Love, Blue Engine ***1/2

To Whom I Love includes some of the last appearances on a recording by Joey DeFrancesco. Produced by Sean Jones this is the debut recording as a leader of 22-year-old trumpeter Summer Camargo who hails from Florida and is a masters student at …

Published: 20 Mar 2024. Updated: 37 days.

To Whom I Love includes some of the last appearances on a recording by Joey DeFrancesco.

Produced by Sean Jones this is the debut recording as a leader of 22-year-old trumpeter Summer Camargo who hails from Florida and is a masters student at Julliard in New York. On a fast train already Camargo is in the Saturday Night Live house band on US TV. Personnel on the recording joining Camargo are reedist Veronica Leahy, trombonist Jeffery Miller, pianist Esteban Castro, bassist Raul Reyes Bueno, drummer Varun Das and percussionist Jamey Haddad on four tracks. To Whom I Love notably features some of the last appearances on a recording by Hammond B3 master Joey DeFrancesco on '80 Tears of Joy' and the raucous clapalong, 'Dance of the Merrymaker'. De Francesco sadly died a week after the album recording sessions that took place in 2022. Pure toned trad jazz (especially the very well caught treatment of 'On the Sunny Side of the Street') aiming at a classic tradition very much in the Wyntonian mould, Camargo's sound is so worth getting to know right now. Summer Camargo, photo: via YouTube

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Messengers in Jazz With Peter Bernstein, At Termansens, Termansen Music ***1/2

Feelgood Hank Mobley, Big John Patton, Peter Bernstein and Martin Schack originals plus a new take on Burton Lane's 'Old Devil Moon' from the 1940s are part of the tasty soul-jazz recipe on offer from a swinging combo - the Messengers in Jazz are …

Published: 20 Mar 2024. Updated: 37 days.

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Feelgood Hank Mobley, Big John Patton, Peter Bernstein and Martin Schack originals plus a new take on Burton Lane's 'Old Devil Moon' from the 1940s are part of the tasty soul-jazz recipe on offer from a swinging combo - the Messengers in Jazz are Danish pianist Schack and fellow countryman drummer Anders Mogensen plus continuing the Danish soulful sizzle, double bassist Jesper Bodilsen (who was on Stefano Bollani's superb 2014 release Joy In Spite of Everything) joined by US guitar icon Bernstein, above, an influence on many new generation jazz guitarists including new Irish star in the making, Joseph Leighton.

Schack owns the venue referred to in the title, Termansens, a former bookstore and bindery, located in a 16th century half-timbered house in the Danish town of Ribe. Check the band's take on a Hank Mobley tune - from Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960) - 'This I Dig of You' as a chief highlight.