Jazz Articles about Gordon Beck

The Gordon Beck Quartet / Gary Husband: Experiments with POP / The Things I See

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2001

The wares of a new independent jazz label.

I was not holding out much hope for these recordings. I had just listened to and reviewed Bobby Timmons— Quartets and Orchestra (Milestone 47091), which included some jazz treatments of late 1960s pop songs that did not completely work. In that case, I felt that the effort to assimilate more contemporary pop songs into the jazz standard canon had failed (thought the disc is worthwhile for the remaining pieces). Experiments with POP, ...