NEW RELEASES : In Brief
* * * 1/2 Steve Turre, “Right There,” Antilles. The trombonist’s appearance in various settings--with violinist John Blake and briefly with the trumpet and tenor sax of Wynton Marsalis and Benny Golson--lifts this venture above the small-group norm. Ellington’s “Echoes of Harlem,” a duo cut by Turre (with plunger-mute) and cello (playing double stops), is remarkably self-sufficient. The album’s only weak spot is an anticlimactic final track, a 1950s-type mambo by an entirely different band.
New albums are rated on a scale o one star (poor) to four (excellent). A rating of five stars is reserved for classic reissues or retrospectives.
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