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Christmas II: Two (Almost New) Chanticleer Christmas Offerings

by C. Michael Bailey
November 24, 2013

San Francisco's “Orchestra of Voices," Chanticleer have established themselves as America's premier all-male chorus. The group's repertoire spans 1500 years from anonymous plainchant to the group's tribute to the music of the big and small screen, Someone New (Chanticleer Records, 2013). Tailor made for singing holiday classics, Chanticleer has established a robust track ...

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Christmas I - A Handel’s Messiah Throw Down, 2013...

by C. Michael Bailey
November 16, 2013

The 2005 article George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection provided an introduction to George Frideric Handel and his most popular composition, Messiah. Il caro Sassone, as Handel was known, was a larger-than-life figure in Age of Enlightenment England as his oratorio on the life of Christ would realize scarcely being out of ...

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Kuniko: At The Bare Minimalism

by C. Michael Bailey
October 5, 2013

Percussionist Kuniko Kato is a total package who redefines our awareness of the vibraphone, marimba, indeed the entire percussive spectrum. If we think of the “vibes" as Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Victor Feldman, Gary Burton and Joe Locke then we are missing a full half of the population of players. On her debut and sophomore releases ...

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The Jazz Coin: Scott Hamilton & John Escreet

by C. Michael Bailey
September 23, 2013

Twenty-first century jazz has a greater breadth and depth than any time previously. Granularity in jazz genre has become so reduced that genre designations are almost meaningless. In jazz, we are approaching a time when jazz will no longer be “jazz" but music in the most liberal sense of the word. But, until that time, we ...

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Heleen van den Hombergh: Going Dutch

by C. Michael Bailey
September 13, 2013

Dutch vocalist Heleen van den Hombergh has released bookend recordings, Rush In The Woods (2004) and Way Back Home (2011). In between, life intervened, as it often will, coloring the second release considerably different from the first. Hombergh's singing and composition remain organic and compelling over the whole course, offering a glimpse at an artist at ...

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Pablo Records and My Introduction to Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
August 26, 2013

Right on the heels of its celebration of Riverside Records' 60th Anniversary, Concord Music Group celebrates Pablo Records' 40th Anniversary with remasters from its deep and broad catalog. My first brush with jazz came from a Pablo release and I wanted to share some thoughts on the label, the friends that turned me onto jazz and, ...

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The Houston Beat: Drummer Tim Solook

by C. Michael Bailey
August 16, 2013

Drummer Tim Solook began his career on the West Coast, and later migrated East to Texas where he immediately became a “made man" in the Houston Jazz Mafia. A regular drummer for fellow Houston Jazz Mafia member Tianna Hall, Solook has two recordings as a leader in his musical quiver, 2005's Ability and 2013's Comfortable Blues. ...

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Mort Weiss: In Twilight... Not!

by C. Michael Bailey
July 23, 2013

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams... --Yann Martel, The Life of Pi The Internet has done a bang-up job of bringing everything and everybody closer together. An immediate effect ...

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Single-Malt Big Band - Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

by C. Michael Bailey
July 18, 2013

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra was established by tenor saxophonist and director Tommy Smith in 1995. Since that time the band has devoted itself to re-imagining the music of past jazz greats, that include Weather Report, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. Far from mere imitation, SNJO projects brim with creativity, shining bright ...

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The Little and Big of Florian Ross

by C. Michael Bailey
June 28, 2013

German pianist/composer Florian Ross has been making provocative music since his early Naxos Jazz recordings. He is a rolling stone, moving from one format to the next, always bringing something new and leaving something newer. Florian Ross Elektrio Wheels and Wires Fuhrwerk- Musik 2013 The organ trio, ...