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Two 20-Bit Fantasies - Thelonious Monk: Alone in San Francisco & Art Pepper: Winter Moon
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Enrico Rava: La Dolce Vita & Full of Life
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Coda: Nights at the Turntable
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
C. Michael Bailey's Picks for 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Vocalists 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
Carol Mennie I'm Not a Sometime Thing CDM 1004 2004Long closely associated with guitarist composer Dom Minasi, jazz vocalist Carol Mennie steps out as leader and hits one out of the park. Ms. Mennie revealed her deep alto on the recent Dom Minasi release, Time Will Tell, fashioning ...
Short Takes Part 3, Plus Three from MCG!
by C. Michael Bailey
Herbie Mann / Phil Woods Beyond Brooklyn MCG Records Herbie Mann passed away July 1, 2003. Beyond Brooklyn was recorded earlier that year and serves as Mann's final recording. He finds himself in the empathetic company of Phil Woods, a musician he has been associated with for 40 years. They reprise their ...
Short Takes, Part 2
by C. Michael Bailey
Columns like “Bailey's Bundles" enable me to address more music, hopefully providing the submitting artists the consideration and exposure they, and the reading/listening public desire. So, here are more recent releases that warrant your listening attention. Clark Terry George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (A440 Records) Boy, is this ...
September 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
In the earlier days of this website, publisher Ricci had inaugurated my multiple CD Reviews “Bailey's Bundles." This column has been dormant for some time and now I am resurrecting it. Music writers are inundated with music for review. I think that it is important to respond to as many submissions as possible. Columns like “Bailey's ...
Live Music... Better Late Than Never
by C. Michael Bailey
This month we are going to devote a bit of electronic ink to some 1970s live rock recordings and some trends that are developing in that arena. One item of discussion will address the recently inaugurated labels by the Allman Brothers Band and Little Feat, each with the goal of releasing aural archival footage from early ...
