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Isaac Hayes & John Fogerty: The Progeny of Concord-Fantasy

by C. Michael Bailey
April 22, 2006

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 ...

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Two Roads Diverged

by C. Michael Bailey
April 14, 2006

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 ...

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Mulatos Squared

by C. Michael Bailey
April 14, 2006

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 ...

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Rudy Van Gelder Views Two Tenor Titans

by C. Michael Bailey
March 15, 2006

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 ...

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WAM at 250

by C. Michael Bailey
February 17, 2006

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 ...

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C. Michael Bailey's Best of 2005

by C. Michael Bailey
January 8, 2006

One of the difficult things about being a writer of any kind is that the writing is often an avocation rather than a vocation. In short, my day job recently overtook my night job in a major way, limiting my music writing. While I listened to much music, for the first time in ten years writing ...

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Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices Honoring Christmas

by C. Michael Bailey
January 8, 2006

cunctae res difficiles non potest eas homo explicare sermone non saturatur oculus visu nec auris impletur auditu quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est nihil sub sole novum nec valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est iam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos.

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George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection

by C. Michael Bailey
December 26, 2005

Comfort ye Comfort ye, my people. Sayeth your God, Sayeth your God... Isaiah 40, KJV And so begins one of the most readily identifiable Christmas collections on record. It is not a collection in the tradition of collections of familiar carols, hymns, and plainchant. It is ...

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I. Christmas 2005: Something Old...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this piece, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. Add to this, the deluge of holiday music, all worthy of ...

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II. Christmas 2005: Something New...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. That sets the stage for a more expansive list than in past ...