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Gary Norian: Houston Lifts Off

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2011

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, ...

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Robert Hurst: Unrehurst Volumes 1 and 2

by C. Michael Bailey
July 8, 2011

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 ...

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The Eybler Quartet: The New Guard

by C. Michael Bailey
May 28, 2011

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 ...

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Emmanuel Krivine: Beethoven Complete Symphonies

by C. Michael Bailey
April 23, 2011

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 ...

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Dan Wilensky: To Whom Much is Given...

by C. Michael Bailey
March 15, 2011

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 ...

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The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Idil Biret and Andras Schiff - Sonata No. 1 in F minor

by C. Michael Bailey
February 12, 2011

Note to Readers: This column is switching gears to review the complete Andras Schiff and Idil Biret Beethoven Sonata cycles. One sonata will be addressed at a time. This will be more orderly than trying to match the respective volumes as first written. An overview article on these sonata cycles can be found here.

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C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2010

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 2011

My approach to selecting what I consider the best recordings of the year has changed every year. In 2010, I am citing those discs to which I gave 5 out of 5 stars. About midway through the year, I restricted myself to largely vocal jazz releases, explaining the abundance of such recordings on the list.

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Lawrence Lebo: Rhythm and Roots

by C. Michael Bailey
August 18, 2010

A myth exists in singer Lawrence Lebo's family that the pixie-banged brunette with the warm and humid presence, and encyclopedic American musical view, was conceived during a Saturday night re-run of the Lawrence Welk show--hence, the name. That name. Lawrence Lebo. Delicately avoiding strict political correctness, “what kind of name is that for ...

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The State of The Saxophone Trio: Dan Moretti, Domenic Landolf, Jacob Duncan

by C. Michael Bailey
August 16, 2010

There is something Baroque about jazz ensembles lacking a piano or guitar as a harmony instrument . Their absence frees previously occupied sonic space for other uses. The format also sets up a more pronounced contrapuntal interplay between the remaining players. The saxophone trio has become quite mainstream since Sonny Rollins blew into the Village Vanguard ...

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Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2

by C. Michael Bailey
August 6, 2010

Vocalist Retta Christie exists at the curious intersection of country & western, swing and film music. Country music and jazz may seem strange bedfellows, but bedfellows they have been since the 1920s and bandleaders Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, Jay McShann and Count Basie all slumming together in Great Plains dance halls. It is from this ...