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Ray Bryant (32 Jazz (32128): Ray Bryant: Alone at Montreux
by C. Michael Bailey
Ray Bryant’s Piano. Alone At Montreux is the result of 32 Jazz’s Joel Dorn’s tenure at Atlantic records. Through a collaboration with the Atlantic/Rhino re-release project, music that would otherwise go unreleased, will now see the light of ear. There is little live solo Bryant available, making this offering that much more valuable. The Blues...as Usual. ...
Russell Gunn: Ethnomusicology, Volume 1
by Douglas Payne
Few attempts at a jazz and hip hop union have ever been successful or satisfying. Maybe it's one school's inability to understand the other or the problematic potential of getting two such different audiences in the same room. But, somehow, the maverick 28-year-old trumpeter Russell Gunn has made it work with Ethnomusicology, one of the finest ...
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy: The Odyssey Of Funk & Popular Music, Vol. 1
by Jim Santella
The easy-going tuba saunter and its accompanying trumpet line make Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy unmistakably easy to spot. Easy to love, too. The leader’s unique vocalized trumpet antics provide comedy relief; however, Bowie’s emphasis remains on entertaining his audience through a variety of options. The Odyssey Of Funk & Popular Music, Vol. 1 incorporates R&B, doo-wop, ...
Cyrus Chestnut: Cyrus Chestnut
by Ed Kopp
Purists who believe that every jazz release should break new ground might dismiss Cyrus Chestnut's latest, but in a jazz world dominated by Coltrane and Miles disciples, I find it very refreshing.Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is influenced to some extent by Coltrane collaborator McCoy Tyner, but he also embraces stride, '50s-style bebop, gospel, and the ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Coming Home Jamaica
by Jim Santella
With the front and back covers of Down Beat magazine paying respects to the current swing revival, and record stores everywhere reminding us that generations do have common interests, it’s no surprise that “Grape Escape" opens the album with walking bass, drums on two and four, and horns swinging together. Since Joseph Jarman left the Art ...
In Carterian Fashion
By James Carter
Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Lianmo; Down To The River; Don's Idea; Skull Grabbin'; Odyssey; Trouble In The World; Escape From Bizarro World; Frisco Follies; Lockjaw's Lament; In Carterian Fashion.
