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World Without End: John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, and the Saxophone Summit
by C. Michael Bailey
In 2004 Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, and Dave Liebman joined forces as the long-lived Saxophone Summit and entered the studio with the expressed intent of considering the most difficult of the John Coltrane corpus--late Coltrane. This is the Coltrane typified by spiritual melody overwhelmed with the catharsis of improvisation taken to its highest multiple. ...
Sylvia Bennett, Aniya, Lauren White, Perez: A Quartet of Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Standards are still the bread and butter of jazz. Whether from Tin Pan Alley's American songbook or specifically composed as jazz and assimilated into the jazz repertoire, the standard offers musicians a proven, tried and true vehicle with which to ply their artistic trade. This is never more the case than in the realm of jazz ...
Bill Stewart, Stanton Moore, Tobias Gebb: A Trio of Drum Trios
by C. Michael Bailey
Drum trios? Drum trios and not piano trios or guitar trios? The three releases considered here are by drummer-led trios. They offer vastly differing approaches to performing both standards and original compositions. Bill Stewart, Stanton Moore, and Tobias Gebb all aim to accomplish the same goal--making music--but that is where the similarity ends. Bill ...
The Latin Tinge: Small Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
The article The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style looked at a spate of big band releases featuring Latin influenced jazz. An equally large spate of small band recordings devoted to Latin jazz has also been released. The two bodies of work are vibrant evidence that the Latin assimilation of jazz is one of the most fortuitous ...
The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz is a unique gift the United States has given the world and the world has shown its gratitude. In its Nordic big bands and Italian small combos; in Swiss and German record labels, which have made sound recording an art form; in France and the Netherlands, two countries that have welcomed African-American expatriates and enabled ...
Straight, No Bass...er
by C. Michael Bailey
We are in the midst of an explosion of duet recordings, pairing instruments not typically associated with musical duos. In all cases, no traditional bass instrument is used. Pianist Kristjan Randalu and percussionist Bodek Janke perform Live (Jazz n' Arts, 2007) at Tollhaus, Karlsruhe. Marilyn Mazur and Jan Garbarek join percussion and saxophone on Elixir (ECM, ...
ECM Classical
by C. Michael Bailey
Where the jazz side of the German recording label ECM, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, has forged an immediately recognisable signature sound, its classical side has likewise flourished. Notable recent recordings like Andras Schiff's second set of Bach's Goldberg Variations (ECM, 2005) and his continuing series of Beethoven Piano Sonatas are outstanding additions to the ...
ECM Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
ECM Records is the Blue Note Records of the 21st Century. Where Blue Note almost single-handedly defined the sound of jazz (specifically hard bop) in the 1950s and 1960s, ECM has done much the same with the flavor of jazz emerging from the 1970s on. So similar are the two labels, in this respect at least, ...
Back to the Roots with Louis Armstrong
by C. Michael Bailey
Why must we still listen to this tin-horn, old fashioned, moldy fig jazz when we have cool labels like ECM and Winter & Winter pressing the most cutting edge music imaginable? One reason is because the iconic cornet player Buddy Bolden left no recordings, thus making trumpeter/cornetist/singer Louis Armstrong the ground zero center of jazz. Armstrong ...
Christmas 2007: 1. In nomine Patris... The Past
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3It was again a stingy market for jazz holiday fare. Sad, as there exist many artists we have yet to hear from. In the face of such fiscal and corporate adversity, this intrepid writer has nevertheless found several notable releases and added some old ones as reminders ...
