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Christmas 2007: 2. ...et Filii... The Present
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Following Christmas 2007: 1. In nomine Patris... The Past and keeping with this year's theme, the next batch of holiday discs represent the present. That is, Christmas fare appealing to the baby boomers. Again, the pickings are slim and there may be a stretch here, but ...
Christmas 2007: 3. ...et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. The Future
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This is the conclusion of our trinity of Christmas 2007 holiday articles, tying up the previously noted : 1. In nomine Patris... The Past and 2. ...et Filii... The Present These recordings take the holiday celebration to the edge, being at once quirky, inventive, and the ...
Challenge Gets the Mainstream Groove: Harry Allen & The Pizzarelli Boys
by C. Michael Bailey
Challenge Records put their corporate foot down and said, “Enough of this noisy progressive jazz. Let's have the real thing. Echoing the immortal words of jazz writer Martin Williams in the title of his book Where's The Melody? (Minerva, 1966), Challenge is, er, challenging labels like Arbors Jazz and Nagel-Heyer in their own “classic jazz backyards--with ...
ECM Bass Summit: Eberhard Weber & Miroslav Vitous
by C. Michael Bailey
It is considered bad critical form to focus on a particular record label in a review, but it is difficult to discuss ECM artists and the “ECM sound without mentioning ECM and its svengali, Manfred Eicher. No recording company since Blue Note in the 1950s and 1960s can boast as distinctive a sound and eclectic a ...
Allman Brothers Band & Little Feat: Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow
by C. Michael Bailey
The Allman Brothers Band has more than just a few things in common with Little Feat. Both bands were formed in the pivotal year 1969, two years after the Monterey Festival and the summer of love, the same year as the Woodstock Festival, and three years prior to the release of Rolling Stones' last significant work, ...
Joan Stiles and Lisa Hilton: Two New York States Of Mind
by C. Michael Bailey
New York City pianist/vocalist Joan Stiles and Malibu pianist Lisa Hilton have something in common: their taste in men...musical sidemen, that is. Alto saxophonist Steve Wilson, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Lewis Nash show up amongst the sextet and quintet featured, respectively, on Stile's Hurly-Burly and Hilton's New York Sessions. Despite their part-shared personnels, these recordings ...
Have Flute Will Travel: Chip Shelton On The Road
by C. Michael Bailey
Chip Shelton is part of that rare breed, an almost exclusive jazz flautist (save for the occasions where he plays soprano saxophone.) He has provided the jazz audience with several notable recordings including, Peacetime and Flute Bass-ics. Shelton has a quasi-series of live recordings in the brew entitled Have Flute Will Travel. The first, Stop 1, ...
Bob Florence and Scott Whitfield: A Bigger Sound
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Bob Florence and trombonist Scott Whitfield have a history. Besides both recording for Summit Records, the two artists regularly play on each other's recordings. Hear what real cooperation sounds like. The Bob Florence Limited Edition Eternal Licks And Grooves Summit Records 2007 Bob Florence can build ...
Art Pepper: Two Previously Unreleased and Outstanding Albums
by C. Michael Bailey
Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. (1925 -1982) desired the title of “greatest alto saxophonist in the world." Such an ambition might be considered by the uninitiated to have been either naive or intensely egocentric, for Pepper's contemporaries on the axe included Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges and Paul Desmond. But Pepper had more staying power than any of ...
Jazz At The Philharmonic: Switzerland, 1953
by C. Michael Bailey
Before the star-studded jam sessions of the 1970s Montreux Jazz Festivals there were the pioneering Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) road shows, which toured from 1946 into the 1960s and put onstage together many of the greatest mainstream and modern stars of their times. Both Montreux and JATP were the brainchildren of Norman Granz, the jazz ...
