Results for "Label M"

A Classic Jazz Curriculum with Label M's Joel Dorn

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 12, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in April 2001. Ah, the classics. In every art form painting, literature, architecture, dance, music there are works which possess timeless beauty, works with themes that resonate emotionally across decades, through centuries, and are masterfully presented. Joel Dorn's name is indelibly written in ...

Joel Dorn's Nine Lives: Label M and Live at the Left Bank

by C. Michael Bailey
February 7, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz on March 6, 2001. It wasn't but a few years ago that veteran record producer Joel Dorn and a business partner founded 32 Records, a label devoted to re-releasing the old Muse and Landmark catalogs and releasing previously unheard live recordings by major jazz artists. ...

Head Jazz

Label: Label M
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Silver Cycles - Eddie Harris 2. You Can't Always Get What You Want - David "Fathead" Newman 3. Let's Gather - Les McCann 4. Equinox - Hubert Laws 5. The Soul Of A Village Part 2 - Joe Zawinul 6. Day By Day - Jimmy Scott 7. Island Cry - Rahsaan Roland Kirk 8. Ramblin' - Ornette Coleman 9. The Catbird Seat - The Mitchell-Ruff Trio 10. Lorelei's Lament - Hank Crawford 11. The Lovers - Les McCann 12. This Old Building - Yusef Lateef 13. In A Little Spanish Town - Yusef Lateef

Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse

By Eugene McDaniels

Label: Label M
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Lord Is Back 2. Jagger the Dagger 3. Lovin' Man 4. Headless Heroes 5. Susan Jane 6. Freedom Death Dance 7. Supermarket Blues 8. Parasite (For Buffy)

Stan Getz: My Foolish Heart

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

Opening with a snappy “Invitation," this newly-found home recording shows off what producer Joel Dorn calls “prime Getz." Rodgers and Hart’s “Spring is Here" wafts and splashes through a fragrant rain chilled by Jack DeJohnette’s shivery brush work, but DeJohnette sharpens the tempo for Chick Corea’s “Litha," sparking Stan and Richie Beirach to burning life.

Sonny Stitt: Just the Way It Was: Live at the Left Bank

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

To inaugurate his latest musical milestone--the starting of Label M--one of jazz’s most underrated production legends, Joel Dorn, has taken a set by his musical counterpart, the electrifying saxophonist Sonny Stitt, from the vaults of the Left Bank Jazz Society and put it back on vinyl (er- plastic). In doing so, he helps sustain the Society’s ...

Various: Head Jazz

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

Slap on your big ol' '70s headphones and get ready for a ride. Cozying up with Eddie Harris's “Silver Cycles," Head Jazz takes your ears (and whatever may be between them) on a hairpinned tour of contemporary jazz. A combination of a Magritte painting and Fellini film, Head Jazz leads listeners down path after crooked path ...

Eugene McDaniels: Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse

by AAJ Staff
January 20, 2003

This is soul. Not Al Green soul. Not Isaac Hayes soul (but perhaps a bit closer to that). This is the soul of the black man. It is the soul of a student of history who is sick and tired of force-feeding and ready to spit back. This is the soul of a man tired of ...

Easy As Pie

By Al Cohn

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Tickle Toe, Mr. George, These Foolish Things/Willow Weep For Me, John's Bunch, Blue Hodge, Expense Account, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Recado Bossa Nova.

The Pied Piper Of Jazz

By Rufus Harley

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Feeling Good; Kerry Dancers; Scotch & Soul; Pipin