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Blood Sweat & Tears: What The Hell Happened to Blood Sweat & Tears?
by Doug Collette
The title of this release might rightfully be applied at various junctures of Blood Sweat & Tears' career, but for the purposes of this project, it's particularly apropos to the group's State Department-sponsored tour of 1970 behind the Iron Curtain. Innuendo about this band's hip cachet or lack thereof arising from this jaunt--the main premise of the film devoted to the occasion--becomes moot in hearing the 69 plus minutes of performances in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, from whence comes the ...
read moreChristian McBride: The Movement Revisited
by Chris May
The spring 2020 release of The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons is the latest chapter in Christian McBride's inspirational salute to the African American civil rights movement and to four of its heroes: Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. Embracing big band jazz, small group jazz, gospel, funk and chorale musics, together with spoken word passages, the suite employs an eighteen-piece band, the ten-piece Voices Of The Flame gospel choir, two lead ...
read moreLew Soloff: Sketches of Spain
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è facile riuscire a dire qualcosa di nuovo rimettendo mano ad un capolavoro come Sketches of Spain, registrato, fra il novembre del 1959 e il marzo dell'anno successivo, da Miles Davis con il prezioso supporto di Gil Evans, autore degli arrangiamenti, di tre composizioni e direttore dell'orchestra di oltre venti elementi che circondava come una nuvola soffusa le meravigliose melodie cantate dalla tromba e dal flicorno di Miles. Ci prova a cinquant'anni di distanza il trombettista Lew Soloff, un ...
read moreLew Soloff and the Harmonie Ensemble New York: Sketches Of Spain
by Bruce Lindsay
Trumpeter Lew Soloff, and the Harmonie Ensemble New York, conducted by Steve Richman, release their version of Sketches Of Spain 50 years after Miles Davis' original Columbia recording. The 1960 version is accorded classic status by many, but Soloff and Richman have produced a worthy successor. So what's different? Well, one answer is “Not much." Soloff offers no radical reappraisal of the classic work. The album stays faithful to the Davis original: five tunes, each timed to ...
read moreLew Soloff: Sketches Of Spain
by Karl Ackermann
Lew SoloffSketches Of SpainSheffield Lab 2010 Sometimes it feels as though trumpeter Miles Davis never left the stage--his afterlife in airplay, books, t-shirts, reissues and tributes is ubiquitous. But even for those jazz fans who would rather not languish in nostalgia, Davis, like saxophonist John Coltrane, continues to set a standard against which to gauge a whole range of jazz styles, from traditional through fusion to avant-garde. Cover versions of Davis typically ...
read moreLew Soloff: With a Song in My Heart
by Dave Hughes
With a Song in My Heartis a mellow, straight-ahead jazz quartet date. Soloff is full of expressiveness and solo ideas, and his session mates provide understated, sensitive support. Mulgrew Miller turns in some excellent solos, particularly on "I'm a Fool to Want You." The program is a blend of four standards, a couple classical pieces, and a couple Soloff originals. The Tchaikovski piece is especially interesting; Rob Mounsey's expert arrangement distills the essence of the symphony down to ...
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