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Beating The Bootleggers At Their Own Game
by C. Michael Bailey
The bootlegging of concerts has long been a fly in the ointment for the recording business. Academically, the illegally recorded and sold albums can represent important musical documents: missing links, alternate performances, developmental studies. The biggest problem is that the artists don't benefit from their sale financially (nor do the record companies, but that's another issue). ...
Tony Monaco & Friends: Back At The Chicken Shack
by C. Michael Bailey
Accepting the torch of seminal B3 organist Jimmy Smith is one thing--holding it is another. But in the same way that Johannes Brahms carried on the legacy of Beethoven, so Tony Monaco serves Jimmy Smith. A longtime Summit Records label item, Monaco here steps out with his own imprint, Chicken Coup Records, releasing three discs and ...
Clarence
by C. Michael Bailey
Clarence “Gatemouth Brown (1924-2005) was a true musical Renaissance man, at ease playing in a variety of styles and contexts. Born in Vinton, Louisiana and reared in Orange, Texas, he acquired firsthand experience of the vernacular music of both regions. His overall style was greatly influenced by T-Bone Walker, including his use of quasi-big bands. But ...
Bonnie Bramlett: Forty Years On Fire
by C. Michael Bailey
Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett were a key building block in popular music development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between their 1969 debut album Home and D&B Together, made shortly before their divorce in 1972, the couple prepared the ground for acts like Steve Miller, Steve Winwood, Boz Scaggs, Hall & Oates and George Michael. ...
Three Female Vocalists: Sara Gazarek, Stevie Holland & Fay Claassen
by C. Michael Bailey
We are enjoying an embarrassment of riches in the area of female jazz vocals. There's a lot of wheat out there, and some chaff. Here's some of the whole grain. Sara Gazarek Yours Native Language 2005 Left-coast jazz vocalist Sara Gazarek's voice is as mature and perfectly balanced ...
Isaac Hayes & John Fogerty: The Progeny of Concord-Fantasy
by C. Michael Bailey
The union between Concord and Fantasy Records (and now also Telarc) that resulted in the conglomerate Concord Music Group has already spawned progeny worthy of discussion. Compilations of older material are the bread and butter of vaults as large as the record companies living under the Concord corporate tent. Here are two of the most notable ...
Two Roads Diverged
by C. Michael Bailey
Like The Da Vinci Code and any Umberto Eco book, jazz and classical music are about esoterica. They are Gnostic arts, with hidden meanings and treasures revealed over a lifetime, renewing themselves and their meaningfulness with every listening. The sound sorcerer Manfred Eicher spins alchemical magic from both musical loams on his Edition of Contemporary Music ...
Mulatos Squared
by C. Michael Bailey
Omar Sosa is the most original Afro-Cuban jazz artist since Juan Tizol. He has produced an impressive string of recordings that include Prietos, Sentir, Pictures of Soul, Ayaguna, Alertoric EFX: Live Solo Concert - Radio Bremen and Ballads. Sosa's most commercially and critically successful recording to date is Mulatos, which was nominated for a Grammy Award ...
Rudy Van Gelder Views Two Tenor Titans
by C. Michael Bailey
Rudy Van Gelder has had perhaps the greatest personal impact on jazz of anyone associated with the music without having blown a note himself. Van Gelder served as engineer on essentially all of the recordings made for Blue Note between 1953 and 1967. His engineering work did not stop with Blue Note. Van Gelder was sonically ...
WAM at 250
by C. Michael Bailey
Dateline: February 27, 2006, Little Rock, Arkansas. No, not WHAM!, the 1980s boy duo of George Michael and what's-his-name. WAM! - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and today is his 250th birthday. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756; his full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart. The composer was baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus ...
