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Christmas 2015 I: Handel’s Messiah

by C. Michael Bailey
November 22, 2015

George Frideric Handel's Messiah shows no signs of slowing down 273 years after its debut in Dublin on that cool Irish Friday, 13 April 1742. This current year's batch of recordings includes a brand-spanking new release, two reissues, and one that got away from me. They are, in sum, a celebration of Il Caro Sassone and ...

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Girl Talk: Saxophonists Nicole Glover and Kirsten Edkins

by C. Michael Bailey
November 4, 2015

The universe of horn players ceased being a “boys club" about thirty years ago. Women have taken commanding roles in both the trumpet (Carol Morgan, Ingrid Jensen, Saskia Laroo) and saxophone (Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Nancy Wright, Virginia Mayhew, Pattie Cossentino, Jane Ira Bloom, Claire Daly). Add to these lists two new names, Nicole Glover and ...

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Skip Heller: San Fernando Valley Blues and The Hollywood Blues Destroyers

by C. Michael Bailey
September 28, 2015

Fred “Skip" Heller. Now there is a rara avis. A musical omnivore as drawn to Glenn Gould as to Roger Miller, Heller's talent and dedication to music and its history deserves so much more than local notoriety in the Los Angeles and Philadelphia areas it enjoys. Then, if I were LA, I would not share him ...

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Joe Albany and Low Down

by C. Michael Bailey
August 6, 2015

Joseph Albani (1924-1988), better known as Joe Albany, is a footnote in jazz history. A monumentally talented pianist with an exceptionally fragile constitution, Albany, like the late Chet Baker pianist Dick Twardzik, was hampered by a self-doubt relieved by heroin. Albany differed from Twardzik in that, like Baker, he lived well beyond the average junkie lifespan ...

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Dietmar Berger: The Manchester and Berlin Gamba Books

by C. Michael Bailey
July 25, 2015

The gamba or viola de gamba is one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments that emerged originally in 15th century Spain and was popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Having the appearance of a cello, the viola de gamba typically has six strings and have c-rather than f-sound holes. They are toned ...

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Martin Taylor & Linn Records - Visions of Stephane Grappelli

by C. Michael Bailey
June 14, 2015

The British audiophile record label Linn has a sub-imprint called Echo. This imprint is dedicated to the re-release of older label titles. It is from this considerable loam of music that these two Martin Taylor releases are gleaned, both hosting appearances by violinist Stephane Grappelli from the mid-1990s. Martin Taylor & Spirit of ...

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B.B. King: Live in Cook County Jail and More…

by C. Michael Bailey
May 26, 2015

In his ALLMUSIC artist's biography of B.B. King, Bill Dahl states, “Universally hailed as the king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King was without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century." That is hyperbole of the order of Stephen Thomas Erlewine's introduction in the same publication ...

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Johnny Winter And Live

by C. Michael Bailey
May 2, 2015

Johnny Winter And Johnny Winter And Live Columbia 1971 There is no other live rock and roll disc that is both so wrong and so perfect at the same time. Johnny Winter led a power trio in the early 1970s supplemented by guitarist Rick Derringer (who later ...

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His Master’s Voice: Joanna Pascale & Thana Alexa

by C. Michael Bailey
April 13, 2015

“Ahab beckons from the side of the whale..." I have had the pleasure to work with a most benevolent Publisher in Michael Ricci for 20 years. His editorial hand has always been liberal and indulging. It is a very rare thing that he would ask me to listen to something that has been ...

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From the Keyboard: Scarlatti, Glass, & Aho

by C. Michael Bailey
April 4, 2015

The keyboard repertoire will never grow stale or cliche. These three composers and their interpreters will see to that. Duanduan Hao Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol.16 Naxos 2015 Naxos began their Scarlatti Sonata Cycle with the release of Volume 1 in 1999 with ...