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Five Artists: February 2020

by C. Michael Bailey
March 1, 2020

Andrea Brachfeld Brazilian Whispers Origin Records 2020 The flute as the lead instrument in any jazz combo relies on an empathic and sensitive rhythm section that will not overpower the wind instrument's delicate voice (Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson notwithstanding). Flautist Andrea Brachfeld happens upon a dandy rhythm section in pianist ...

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Five Artists: Notable and Nearly Missed

by C. Michael Bailey
January 15, 2020

Every year there is music that always gets away. Here are five notable releases that were nearly missed. Uwe Grodd / Gould Piano Trio Beethoven Grand Symphonies * 1, Arr. Hummel for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano, Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 'Eroica' Naxos Classical 2019 Piano transcriptions ...

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Handel's Messiah 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
November 16, 2019

This is the best class of Messiah releases that I can recall in many years. All are imports and may take effort locating, but each of these has their own undeniable charm. Il caro Sassone rests easy. Hallelujah, indeed! Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Kuks Messiah Accent Records

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Ten Artists: June 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2019

Polly Gibbons All I Can Do Resonance Records 2019 Polly Gibbons's 2017 Resonance release, Is It Me...? was positively received by All About Jazz and other outlets when it appeared. That recording featured a crack trio augmented with soloists, establishing Gibbons as a sensitive yet muscular interpreter of the American ...

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Hadden Sayers: The Dopamine Dream

by C. Michael Bailey
May 26, 2019

Guitarist and composer Hadden Sayers took the 40th Annual Blues Music Awards by storm, riding the sonic wave created by this dual release of Dopamine Machine and Acoustic Dopamine. Sayers was nominated for the “Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year" for the latter recording. We are in the midst of a blues revolution and Hadden Sayers ...

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The Country Blues by Samuel B. Charters

by C. Michael Bailey
May 5, 2019

The Country Blues Samuel B. Charters 314 pages ISBN: # 978-0306800146 Da Capo 1959/1975 With the miracle publication of blues researchers Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's unfinished monolith Blues Come to Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), it is worth reconsidering the first example of blues reportage, Samuel B. ...

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Ten Artists: May 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2019

Paul JostSimple LifePaul Jost Music2019 I believe there are precious few exceptional male jazz vocalists. There. I said it. Female vocalists? They are legion. But once one has pruned away the vanity projects, the Sinatra wannabes, and the most recent unforgivable cover of “My Funny Valentine," there remain few. Paul Jost ...

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Ten on Cellar Live

by C. Michael Bailey
April 23, 2019

That crafty Canadian Cory Weeds was onto something with the creation of his Cellar Live and now Cellar Music label. He reveals himself as a man for all seasons in being a confident saxophonist, music historian, and archivist with his new label Reel to Real (in cooperation with that maestro of the catalog, Zev Feldman. With ...

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Ten Artists: April 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
April 2, 2019

Claudia Vorbach Is There a Time? Phoneector 2018 Claudia Vorbach follows up Come Down Easy (Phoneector, 2016) with these 14 smart original compositions infused with the swagger of a confident composer/singer. At first blush, Vorbach sounds like a relaxed Nora Jones, playfully whimsical and vocally daring. Vorbach sings with an assured ...

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I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone by Jim Dickinson

by C. Michael Bailey
March 10, 2019

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone Jim Dickinson 314 pages ISBN: # 978-1496810540 University of Mississippi Press 2017 “We got stiffed on the gig and drove back to Waco in silence. The sun was coming up over the Brazos when we got back to campus. That was the end ...