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Jennifer Zarine: Fresh Made Cuppa Tea
by C. Michael Bailey
A seizure of nostalgia has gripped the jazz vocals community and shows no evidence of abating. Retta Christie continues her excellent survey of obscure cowboy movie tunes with Dave Frishberg. Lawrence Lebo strips the American musical vernacular to the quick in her three volume series, and Jennifer Zarine successfully mashes up 75 years of Americana with ...
Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol V: Stuttgart May 25, 1981
by C. Michael Bailey
Art Pepper Unreleased Art, Vol V: Stuttgart May 25, 1981 Widow's Taste 2010Since 2006, alto saxophonist Art Pepper's discography has grown by a CD of previously unreleased or limited released performances per year. This bounty is due to the diligence of Pepper's widow, Laurie, who has been accumulating ...
The Multi-Tasking State of David Binney 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophonist David Binney has been a ubiquitous presence in jazz since his first recording, Point Game (Owl, 1989), both as a leader and a sideman. So prolific is Binney, that any multiple-disc review featuring him will be dated immediately. Well, so be it, this is a summer 2010 snapshot of some of the recent activity of ...
Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane / Art Pepper / Dave Brubeck: Remastered Classics
by Chris May
An extension of the Original Jazz Classics series launched in 1982, the OJC Remasters strand applies the sonic benefits of modern remastering to albums in the OJC catalogue which were released on compact disc before 24-bit technology was available. On the first batch of Remasters, engineer Joe Tarantino's work adds new depth and presence to the ...
Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Volume 4: The Art History Project
by Jeff Stockton
In her liner notes to Volume IV of the Art History Project, Art Pepper's widow describes him as a self-hating, alcoholic sex addict who turned to heroin in order to suppress these tendencies. Second only to Charlie Parker in the DownBeat polls of the day, nobody played alto saxophone as smooth and cool as Art Pepper. ...
"Unreleased Art, Vol. V": Art Pepper in Stuttgart CD to be Released by Widow's Taste May 18
Thanks to the generosity of obsessive jazz collectors worldwide--and their sub rosa recordings--Laurie Pepper is able to bring Art Pepper's luminous and funky improvisations of one night in Stuttgart to the rest of the world nearly 30 years later. Volume V in the Unreleased Art series of Laurie's Widow's Taste label was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany ...
The Best Music Writing 2009
by C. Michael Bailey
The Best Music Writing 2009 Greil Marcus, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor Trade Paperback; 384 pages ISBN: 0306817829 Da Capo Press 2009 What are the goals of good music writing? At the very least, it should educate the reader about the music and integrate that ...
The State of Reissues 2010: Dave Brubeck, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Joe Pass
by C. Michael Bailey
Formed by the merger of West Coast record labels Concord and Fantasy in 2004, the Concord Music Group possesses the largest catalog of recorded jazz earth-side. With such a rich basement, Concord can be expected to launch reissue series from time to time. The label's newest such program is the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series. Original ...
Shawn Maxwell Quartet: Maxwell's House
by Dan McClenaghan
Chicago-based multi-reedist Shawn Maxwell's third disc as a leader, Maxwell's House, follows in the footsteps of his Originals (Self Published, 2006) and Originals II (Self Published, 2008). All three sets possess a solid mainstream quartet sound, with the piano/bass/drums rhythm team fronted by the leader's tangy-toned alto saxophone.The disc opens with the highly-caffeinated title ...
Lin McPhillips: My Shining Hour
by C. Michael Bailey
San Francisco jazz singer Lin McPhillips throws elbows and says, “I'm here now" on My Shining Hour, her self-produced recording debut. McPhillips returns to performing after a nearly 20-year hiatus, following in the creative footsteps of other notable West Coast jazz musicians (Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Ed Reed, and Hadley Caliman), without the attendant harrowing reasons ...
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