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The London Blues of Zoë Schwarz
by C. Michael Bailey
The American music genres blues and jazz are the subatomic particles of every note played since their commission to media in the early part of the last century. While one did not beget the other, were this a Venn diagram, there would exist an overlapping of blues and jazz in that place behind the roadhouse on ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2011
by C. Michael Bailey
As in 2010, this end-of-the-year best recordings list is drawn from albums awarded “five stars" on the author's score sheet when first reviewed. Dana LaurenIt's You or No One Vocalist Dana Lauren has a beautifully balanced alto voice that is pliant and malleable, one well suited for jazz. It's ...
Five Golden Rings for Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
The 2011 holidays are nearly upon us and with them, the requisite focused recordings. The number of such offerings has diminished in the last number of years. What has not diminished is the quality of the recordings, as evidenced by these five “golden rings." Happy holidays, jazz fans. Elisabeth Lohninger Band
Robert Johnson’s Persistent Ghost
by C. Michael Bailey
The centenary of blues musician Robert Johnson's birth passed quietly May 8, 2011. Anticipating it was the release of The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection (Legacy Recordings, 2011). The liner notes for this release, penned by Ted Gioia and Steve LaVere, continue the best biographical line of the allusive singer begun in the liner notes of ...
Wynton Marsalis' Swinging Into The 21st Redux
by C. Michael Bailey
Sony Legacy has re-issued trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' monumental recorded conclusion to the 20th century, Swinging Into The 21st. Originally comprised of nine albums released between June 1999 and August 2000, Swinging Into The 21st was Marsalis' effort to cap two decades of recording with CBS/Sony. The music was impressive in its variety and creative density.
Gary Norian: Houston Lifts Off
by C. Michael Bailey
Houston, Texas is the oil capital of the United States. It is also, in 2011, becoming a jazz mecca ready to take on New Orleans, Chicago and New York City. Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties are home to an exploding jazz population that includes pianist, vocalist and trombonist Henry Darragh, vocalists Melissa Darragh, Jacqui Sutton, ...
Robert Hurst: Unrehurst Volumes 1 and 2
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz piano trio--piano, bass, and drums, also known as the “rhythm section"--is a fundamental unit in jazz ensembles. It is the motor that drives all combos greater than itself. Which instrument a trio “leader" plays often has a profound effect on the personality and temperament of the music produced. Bass-led trios often bring the bass ...
The Eybler Quartet: The New Guard
by C. Michael Bailey
Joseph Leopold Edler von Eybler (1765-1846) was a friend of Mozart (1756-1791). The two composers met through a third, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (some circle of friends that must have been!) Eybler was notable for having been asked by Constanze Mozart after Mozart's death in 1791 to complete the composer's unfinished Requiem. Eybler gave it the ...
Emmanuel Krivine: Beethoven Complete Symphonies
by C. Michael Bailey
La Chambre Philharmonique, Emmanuel KrivineBeethoven Complete SymphoniesNaive2011 The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the last reserved for the lengthy Ninth ...
Dan Wilensky: To Whom Much is Given...
by C. Michael Bailey
Tenor saxophonist Dan Wilensky is a Renaissance Man and an educator, both facets of his character evidenced in his musicians' guide, Musician!, and the album If You Only Knew. What Wilensky provides over these two offerings is a masterclass in tasteful and well-behaved musicianship in the real world. No booze- swilling or reefer madness here, only ...
