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Straight, No Bass...er

by C. Michael Bailey
March 20, 2008

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, ...

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ECM Classical

by C. Michael Bailey
March 14, 2008

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 ...

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ECM Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
March 13, 2008

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, ...

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Back to the Roots with Louis Armstrong

by C. Michael Bailey
February 21, 2008

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 ...

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Christmas 2007: 1. In nomine Patris... The Past

by C. Michael Bailey
December 20, 2007

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 ...

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Christmas 2007: 2. ...et Filii... The Present

by C. Michael Bailey
December 20, 2007

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 ...

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Christmas 2007: 3. ...et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. The Future

by C. Michael Bailey
December 20, 2007

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 ...

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Challenge Gets the Mainstream Groove: Harry Allen & The Pizzarelli Boys

by C. Michael Bailey
September 21, 2007

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 ...

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ECM Bass Summit: Eberhard Weber & Miroslav Vitous

by C. Michael Bailey
August 19, 2007

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 ...

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Allman Brothers Band & Little Feat: Jam Today, Jam Tomorrow

by C. Michael Bailey
August 11, 2007

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, ...