Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson

For my first jazz album review I’d like to talk about Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson. We have a local public radio station that plays jazz in the evenings and I had to stop listening to the show because every time I did I would have a list of CDs to go buy the next day. This is a group that I discovered through that radio program. This album is called Points Of View and contains both originals and covers. They are a wonderful trio and you can tell when listening to them that they have been together for awhile. They read off of one another beautifully. When I last looked this group up I think they had only two albums to their credit. I don’t even know if they are still around. Points Of View was released in 1997. No one is a virtuoso in this group, but the sum of the parts is what makes this group a great jazz trio. Check them out. They are very soothing and melodic, not super strung-out (or "nutballs", to coin my daughter's phrase for craziness).