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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 ...
David Binney and Edward Simon: Further Explorations
by C. Michael Bailey
David Binney and Edward Simon have been very busy men. Their names are splashed copiously within these pages, both separately and together. Separately and most recently, Binney, a multi-reedist who concentrates on alto saxophone, released Cities and Desires, and pianist Simon Unicity. Together, the two musicians have a history beginning with Red Records' 2005 release Afinadad. ...
Skip Heller's Aural American Landscape
by C. Michael Bailey
A number of years ago, Philadelphia cum Los Angeles guitarist Skip Heller released Homegoing, which included his organ trio treatment of the funeral march from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Around this same time pianist and fellow Philadelphia-native Uri Caine was having his own jazz considerations on Mahler (Gustav Mahler In Toblach: I Went Out This Morning Over ...
A New Third Stream: Yitzhak Yedid
by C. Michael Bailey
"Third Stream" was a generic term coined by composer Gunther Schuller in the late 1950s to categorize mixtures of jazz and classical music. Both before and after Schuller's period, most attempts to fuse the two musics have met with limited success. The “lost generation" had Paul Whiteman and George Gershwin blanketing improvised jazz solos with high ...
Skip Heller's Long March To The Heart Of America
by C. Michael Bailey
Philadelphia favorite son and Los Angeles uber-musician Fred “Skip Heller has been busy since my sighting of him last October at the Arkansas CD & Record Exchange. He was then touring to promote Mean Things Are Happening In This Land, currently available as a digital download at Ropeadope Records. After the Arkansas junket, Heller and his ...
And The Angels Sing: Roberta Donnay, Nancy Osborne, Sylvia Bennett
by C. Michael Bailey
The hits just keep on coming. The flood of fine female jazz vocal recordings shows no sign of letting up. “Let it rain, I say. Here are three more releases for your consideration. Roberta Donnay What's Your Story Rain Forest Records 2006 What's Your Story ...
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