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C. Michael Bailey's Best of 2005
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices Honoring Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
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.
George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
I. Christmas 2005: Something Old...
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
II. Christmas 2005: Something New...
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
III. Christmas 2005: Something Strange...
by C. Michael Bailey
Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | Something SmoothIt is 75 degrees (F) the day before Thanksgiving at my home outside of Little Rock, Arkansas. If one does not believe in global warming, please join me duck hunting while I swat mosquitos and shoot cottonmouths. Unseasonable hot weather and sweat dripping on ...
IV. Christmas 2005: And Something Smooth...
by C. Michael Bailey
Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth Whew! The temperature has finally dropped to normal late-November levels, just in time for a Bombay Sapphire Martini, sunny-side up and this holiday's spate of smooth jazz. Various Artists40 Years: A Charlie Brown ChristmasPeak Records
Artifacts: Three Major Jazz Discoveries
by C. Michael Bailey
Skeptical readers and listeners might think, “Why now are so many previously unreleased, unknown recordings by the jazz elite surfacing?" One might think that the record companies have known about these recordings all along and have chosen the right time, a time when everyone is bored with the same re-re-re-releases, over and over and over again; ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 1: The Nine Symphonies
by C. Michael Bailey
Index Introduction What on earth does Beethoven have to do with Jazz? The Complete Beethoven Symphonies in SACD Kurt Masur, The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 Symphony No. ...
Two Volume 2s: Mulgrew Miller and Jessica Williams-Live at Yoshi
by C. Michael Bailey
Two MaxJazz discs recorded live at Oakland's Yoshi's Jazz House surfaced on my desk at about the same time. Both are the followup releases for pianists: Mulgrew Miller and Jessica Williams, two performers of the same generation who came of age between the jazz-turbulent 1960s and the “young lions of the 1980s. The two performances offer ...
