Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble

Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble: Expectation

by Chris May
August 7, 2007

The young Swiss label Kind Of Blue, after a patchy start which included some pretty cheesy projects, is beginning to hit a more formidable stride. Two 2007 releases, pianist Mark Soskin's One Hopeful Day, a fine band album made luminous by saxophonist Chris Potter, and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's For Sentimental Reasons, all silk sheets and flickering candles, are likely to crop up in the best-of lists at the end of the year.

So, too, should the Los Angeles ...