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If I Had a Saxophone: Sonny Fortune, Al Foster, James Moody & Hank Jones, Lee Konitz, and Bob Mover
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophones are ubiquitous in jazz music. That being so, releases spotlighting the instrument each year are legion. Here are five of the finer ones. Sonny Fortune You and the Night and the Music 18th & Vine Records 2008 Can the ancient warhorse “Sweet ...
By Arrangement Only: Bob Mintzer, Chuck Bergeron, Carl Saunders & Doug Hamilton
by C. Michael Bailey
The flip side of big band science, the counter dimension to swing, is arrangement. Once the seed of an idea has arrived, the melodies conceived, and the notes put into order, the music opens itself up to further organization. This is the art of the arranger. While not scientific, the observation that as the intensity of ...
Swing, Swing, Swing: Gary Tole, Phil Norman, Gene Ludwig & Bill Warfield, Cy Touff & Sandy Mosse
by C. Michael Bailey
The word swing means two things when discussing big band jazz. It refers to the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, when big band swing music was the popular music of the day. It also refers to that unique rhythmic result of well played jazz, a quality defying meaningful definition but something avid listeners recognise ...
Tuba Jazz: Jim Shearer and Jim Self
by C. Michael Bailey
The tuba in jazz is like the appendix. It is an evolutionary artifact that once played an integral role in the operation of the jazz orchestra but has largely fallen into disuse in favor of other instruments. Sure, it has surfaced at one time or another since the New Orleans days. Claude Thornhill employed one in ...
Garth Knox, Morton Feldman, and a Viola Walk Into a Bar...
by C. Michael Bailey
What's the difference between a violin and a viola? Well, take your pick: (a) the viola burns longer (b) the viola holds more beer (c) you can tune the violin. The poor viola. She does not even get a piece of a break. The viola is the least understood and respected of orchestral stringed ...
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 ...
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