Listen Before You Buy: Recent jazz and blues releases chosen by Ron Sweetman.
Will include guitarists Ken Aldcroft, Ken Hatfield & Dom Minasi, organists Back Talk and Organissimo, drummers Nick Fraser, Mack Longpre, Lewis Nash, Alex Riel & Barry Altschul,
blues singers Willie Buck, Mississippi Heat & Mike Wheeler, and trombonist Jay Vonada.
Artist: Back-Talk Organ Trio
Album: Black Flower
Tune: Small Beads
Label: Back-Talk
Artist: Organissimo
Album: Dedicated
Tune: Blues on the Black Top
Label: Big O Records
Artist: Jay Vonada
Album: Groovin' It
Tune: Groovin' It
Label: Vonada
Artist: Ken Hatfield Sextet
Album: For Langston
Tune: Song of the Revolution
Label: Arthur Circle Music
Artist: Ken Hatfield Sextet
Album: For Langston
Tune: Jazzonia
Label: Arthur Circle Music
Artist: Nick Fraser
Album: Towns and Villages
Tune: Albs
Label: Barnyard
Artist: Nick Fraser
Album: Towns and Villages
Tune: Sketch # 10
Label: Barnyard
Artist: Mackenzie Longpre
Album: Summer House
Tune: To the Harbormaster
Label: JCOA
Artist: Mike Wheeler
Album: Self Made Man
Tune: Chicago Blues
Label: Delmark
Artist: Willie Buck
Album: Cell Phone Man
Tune: Going Down Main Street
Label: Delmark
Artist: Willie Buck
Album: Cell Phone Man
Tune: What's the Matter With the Mill
Label: Delmark
Artist: Mississippi Heat
Album: Delta Bound
Tune: New Orleans Man
Label: Delmark
Artist: Ken Aldcroft & Joel LeBlanc
Album: The Long and Short of It
Tune: The Short [I]
Label: Trio Records
Artist: Ken Aldcroft & Joel LeBlanc
Album: The Long and Short of It
Tune: The Short [II]
Label: Trio Records
Artist: Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble
Album: Sneaky Pete - Slugs
Tune: Section I
Label: Trio Records
Artist: Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble
Album: Sneaky Pete - Slugs
Tune: Section III
Label: Trio Records
Artist: Lewis Nash Quintet
Album: The Highest Mountain
Tune: Blues Connotation
Label: Cellar Live
Artist: Barry Altschul
Album: The 3Dom Factor
Tune: The 3Dom Factor
Label: TUM
Artist: Alex Riel Special Quartet
Album: Full House
Tune: Sandu
Label: Storyville
Artist: Dom Minasi Septet
Album: The Bird the Girl and the Donkey II
Tune: The Bird the Girl and the Donkey II
Label: Friends of Unseen Rain
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About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
