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III. Christmas 2005: Something Strange...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

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 ...

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IV. Christmas 2005: And Something Smooth...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

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

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Artifacts: Three Major Jazz Discoveries

by C. Michael Bailey
November 21, 2005

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; ...

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The Beethoven Symphony Series 1: The Nine Symphonies

by C. Michael Bailey
October 23, 2005

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. ...

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Two Volume 2s: Mulgrew Miller and Jessica Williams-Live at Yoshi

by C. Michael Bailey
September 22, 2005

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 ...

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Two 20-Bit Fantasies - Thelonious Monk: Alone in San Francisco & Art Pepper: Winter Moon

by C. Michael Bailey
September 21, 2005

Fantasy Jazz, now owned by Concord Records, is continuing its 20-bit remastering program with two releases offering a beautiful comparison between a solo instrument performance and the most challenging of jazz settings, one with a string section: Thelonious Monk's Alone I San Francisco and Art Pepper's Winter Moon, respectively. The sound quality of both is uniformly ...

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Enrico Rava: La Dolce Vita & Full of Life

by C. Michael Bailey
August 3, 2005

The jazz stylings of Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava, much like that of his Polish counterpart Tomasz Stanko, are a synthesis 1950s Miles Davis and Chet Baker transformed through the fifty years that have elapsed since the release of the first sides which would become Birth of the Cool and the Gerry Mulligan pianoless quartets ...

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Coda: Nights at the Turntable

by C. Michael Bailey
January 30, 2005

I am retiring my column “Nights at the Turntable". Like many of the writers at All About Jazz I have a day job, one that interferes greatly with the pursuit of my bliss (in the grand parlance of the late Dr. Joseph Campbell) of music writing. It is difficult for writers to maintain one column, much ...

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C. Michael Bailey's Picks for 2004

by C. Michael Bailey
December 28, 2004

The end of 2004 is upon us. Curbing my past enthusiasm over another great year filled with superb recordings, I have selected these twelve. This was no mean feat. I am neglecting very fine recordings such as Salvatore Tranchini's Faces and Hiromi's Brain, Art Pepper's harrowing Smack Up was also released with 20-bit remastering and ?Yet ...

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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

by C. Michael Bailey
December 5, 2004

My year is not complete until the Holiday Season. I am not particularly egalitarian about it. Our American Culture, for good or bad, is pretty firmly based on Judeo-Christian principals. This is fortunate in the respect that it has provided us with 2000 years of the most inspired music, composed around the birth and life of ...