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Norah Jones: Feels Like Home
by C. Michael Bailey
How does a young jazz artist follow-up and debut release that sold 17 million copies and garnered six, count them, six Grammy Awards? She relaxes. Norah Jones answered her well-received recording Come Away With Me with the comfortable as quilt Feels Like Home. In its first week of release, the sophomore recording ...
Grammy Salute To Jazz, Honoring Clark Terry & Gerald Wilson
Recording Academy Announces Grammy “Salute To Jazz" Event to Honor Jazz Greats Clark Terry and Gerald Wilson As part of the week-long GRAMMY celebration of events taking place throughout Los Angeles, the Recording Academy announced the initiation of a new event titled GRAMMY Salute To Jazz. This celebratory gathering, to be held on Wednesday, February 4 ...
Pat Martino: Think Tank
by Joel Roberts
It's been nearly twenty years since Pat Martino's comeback from a near-fatal brain aneurysm. In that time he's re-established himself as one of the jazz world's premier guitarists, a technically advanced post bop player who combines forward-thinking musical ideas with native Philly grit; think Pat Metheny with more soul. Think Tank , as ...
John Coltrane: Blue Train
by Mark Schlack
Imagine that New York’s 52nd Street jazz scene never died and John Coltrane lived his life out there, playing an endless series of jam sessions. What if he had never passed through the portal of Miles’ and McCoy’s modal playing, down the rivers of Africa and the Middle East, propelled by the Black experience of the ...
Lee Morgan: Sonic Boom
by Germein Linares
A quick inspection of the Lee Morgan discography unearths an obscure album sandwiched between 1966's The Rajah and 1967's The Procrastinator. The album, Sonic Boom, was recorded in 1967 yet remained silent in the Blue Note vaults for twelve years, resurfacing only twice, as an LP in 1979 and eleven years later as a CD. Both ...
Dianne Reeves: A Little Moonlight
by Elliott Simon
Vocalist Dianne Reeves is coming off back to back Grammys for two highly orchestrated efforts: the Sarah Vaughan tribute Calling , and her live set In the Moment. For A Little Moonlight , she has stripped down this approach and used an intimate format to present captivating versions of jazz standards. A Little Moonlight is Reeves ...
Sam Rivers: Fuschia Swing Song
by David Vance
1964 was an important year for the jazz saxophone. John Coltrane recorded the seminal A Love Supreme and Eric Dolphy made Out to Lunch, a masterpiece of the early jazz avant-garde. With that in mind, it’s not as surprising as it is unfortunate that saxophonist Sam Rivers’ debut Fuchsia Swing Song doesn’t get much press. Rivers ...
Larry Young: Mother Ship
by Germein Linares
Jazz fans be warned: Larry Young's Mother Ship has arrived. Recorded in 1969, this wonderfully funky craft enjoys its first CD release on Blue Note. Manning the controls are Young on organ, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Herbert Morgan on tenor sax, and Eddie Gladden on drums. Though Herbert Morgan and Gladden never became instantly identifiable jazz ...
Andrew Hill: Passing Ships
by Germein Linares
As told on Michael Cuscuna's liner notes, the music on Andrew Hill's Passing Ships has gone unheard for 34 years. Thanks to the efforts of both Hill and Cuscuna, the tapes of this 1969 session were properly restored and revived. This music is available for the first time as a limited edition 24-bit re-mastered CD.
Hank Mobley: The Flip
by Germein Linares
Leonard Feather once hailed Hank Mobley as “the middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone." Mobley was better than that. An exquisite soul messenger, Mobley was criticized for not being as aggressive, voluminous, or trailblazing as his contemporaries. Indeed, he was not. Instead, his music was steeped in care, precision and nuances. In Mobley's hands, such treatment ...
