Jesse Chandler

Mario Franco: This Life

by Phil DiPietro
November 12, 2006

Sometimes a disc comes from out of left field that's so good, it makes you drop not only everything you're listening to, but a few other things you shouldn't. Wherever these records come from, you want to go there--and they just take you. Such is the case with this release from Mário Franco, a forty-something bassist/leader from Portugal. It's uncanny that last year, another unheard-of bassist's date from the Portuguese Tone of a Pitch imprint accomplished the ...

Jesse Chandler: Somewhere:Between

by Phil DiPietro
January 22, 2004

In his recent book Jazz: A Critics Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff cast deserved light on the career of the obscure jazz organist “Baby Face" Willette by including his Face to Face on that sanctified list. Mr. Ratliff qualified that pick by saying, “It transcends the cliches of organ jazz records, of which there are many."

With that, I say we all better be checking out Jesse Chandler, because his new ...