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Kenny Dorham: Afro-Cuban
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: An ageless recording of true historical import in all matters Latin and Jazz. Several basic and rather obvious reasons to check out this recording: 1. It is one of the earliest well-informed, conceived and arranged mergers of jazz and Afro- Cuban musical idioms. 2. ...
Patricia Barber: Verse
by Roger Crane
Verse is Patricia Barber's seventh album since her 1989 debut, Split, on the little known and poorly distributed Floyd Records, named after her musician father, Floyd Barber. Her second album, A Distortion of Love , was released on the Verve Antilles label and did not appear until three years later, but it brought the Chicago-based singer ...
Freddie Hubbard: Hub Cap (RVG Edition)
by Robert Gilbert
As was customary with Blue Note releases during the 1950s and '60s, the names of the musicians performing on Hub Cap are listed on the album’s front cover. The name of Freddie Hubbard, the leader, is--not surprisingly--most prominent. However, the factor that elevates Hub Cap a notch above similarly styled LPs released at the time is ...
Donald Byrd: Byrd in Hand (RVG Edition)
by Robert Gilbert
Of the jazz trumpeters who blazed a trail during the 1950s and '60s, Donald Byrd has never really gotten his due. He came into his own at the same time as Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Chet Baker, Kenny Dorham, etc. were on the scene, unjustly diverting some attention away from Byrd. Yet a listen to a ...
Ron Carter: Stardust
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Quick and to the Point: Oscar Pettiford would’ve loved itï The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet, a 1953 Leonard Feather production, featured Pettiford’s “Tamalpais Love Song.” Ron Carter –his own man when incorporating varying nuances of equal multiplicity of origins to his work– proves a manly man at the outset of Stardust. In “Tamalpais,” we ...
ScoLoHoFo: Oh!
by Terrell Kent Holmes
There's nothing more enjoyable than listening to a jazz album which features talented musicians who put their egos on pause, making stimulating and challenging music without stepping on each other's notes. Each member of this group brings the music to its fullest fruition with confidence and expertise, while at the same time giving the others room ...
Stefano Di Battista: Round About Roma
by Jim Santella
Stefano Di Battista sparkles with his quartet, a full symphonic orchestra, and a lush string ensemble on this new release. Capturing the romantic spirit of an exotic Roman holiday, the saxophonist’s modern mainstream creations inch forward gracefully. Di Battista has discovered a great way to describe old Rome without showing its age. Tradition and modernity have ...
ScoLoHoFo: Oh!
by Jim Santella
With Oh!, John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland and Al Foster provide a firm look at the state of straight-ahead jazz. Each of the four leaders contributes equally as performer, composer, and arranger. The result simmers consistently with a buoyant spirit which inspires celebration. We can certainly toast the quartet’s anniversaries: ScoLoHoFo was formed in the ...
Stefon Harris: The Grand Unification Theory
by Jim Santella
Writing from a physical as well as philosophical viewpoint, Stefon Harris has developed his suite for 12 jazz artists into an exciting adventure about life and death, and what goes on in between. It's all there: the big bang theory, the pleasures of life, the inevitable tragedies, mourning, afterlife, rebirth, and tribute. The leader's vibraphone and ...
Stefano Di Battista: Round About Roma
by Mark Corroto
Italian saxophonist Stefano Di Battista could spill a can of paint onto a canvas, only to find he has made a beautiful picture. In other words, every breath that passes through his horn is attractive. His latest project Round About Roma creates an imaginary cinema score, with strings by the Symphonic Orchestra of Paris, ...
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