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Various: Calle 54
by James Nichols
Every once in a while an “exotic" world album garners national attention and sparks the imagination of American pop music fans. Some past examples include Getz/Gilberto, Irakere, the Chieftains, Bob Marley, and most recently Buena Vista Social Club. The CD reviewed below accompanies the documentary touted as the first full-length film dedicated to Latin jazz, Calle ...
Various: Calle 54
by James Nichols
Every once in a while an “exotic" world album garners national attention and sparks the imagination of American pop music fans. Some past examples include Getz/Gilberto, Irakere, the Chieftains, Bob Marley, and most recently Buena Vista Social Club. The CD reviewed below accompanies the documentary touted as the first full-length film dedicated to Latin jazz, Calle ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare. On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by James Nichols
Joe Lovano’s most recent release finds the talented saxophonist stretching out in four different trio combinations. Just as Sonny Rollins discovered in his immortal piano-less Village Vanguard performances, a trio allows more freedom than the conventional saxophone settings of a quartet or quintet. The music breathes easily, flirting with both silence and sound. The horns stroll ...
Andrew Hill: Lift Every Voice
by David Adler
Originally released in 1969, Lift Every Voice was one of the last of Andrew Hill's early Blue Note sessions, and easily one of the most unorthodox. Featuring a jazz quintet augmented by a small choir, the album brings to mind some of Steve Lacy's work with Irene Aebi, or the vocal tracks on Ornette Coleman's Science ...
Stefano Di Battista: Stefano Di Battista
by Jim Santella
You can hear it in his originals. John Coltrane. Johnny Hodges. Art Pepper. Jackie McLean. Cannonball Adderley. Saxophonist Stefano Di Battista has studied the best. A native of Rome, the leader just turned thirty-two. While working in Paris, Di Battista has earned the kind of recognition that opens doors. This is his third album as leader, ...
George Braith: The Complete Blue Note Sessions
by David Adler
George Braith is not as widely known as Roland Kirk, but he too made indisputably musical sounds playing two horns simultaneously. He in fact played one of Kirk’s signature instruments, the stritch (a type of straight alto), often in tandem with the soprano. This Blue Note reissue combines the three albums Braith made for the label ...
Mose Allison: The Mose Chronicles - Live In London, Vol. 1
by Mark Corroto
With fifty-plus years of performance behind him, the 73 year-old Mose Allison continues to perform 125 shows per year. The Mississippi-born pianist traveled to New York in 1951, but his music has never left the Delta. His brand of blues-inflected jazz was first inspired by Louis Jordan and his piano trio has been heavily influenced by ...
Joe Lovano: Flights of Fancy
by AAJ Staff
While Joe Lovano's first Trio Fascination disc explored the spectrum of musical possibilities within a fixed unit, Edition Two goes exactly the opposite way. With four different trios (and playing seven different instruments), Lovano offers variety--and more to spare. On Flights of Fancy, his second celebration of the trio, Lovano plays roles both as melodic leader ...
Joe Lovano: Flights Of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition Two
by Jim Santella
With four decidedly different trios, Joe Lovano pushes the mainstream jazz envelope along its meandering course. The tenor saxophonist’s brusque tone stands apart as distinctively as his passion for molding the art form. This is a blue-collar effort from a creative, dues-paying, veteran artist. Consider the nonstandard combinations the leader employs here. Lovano joins Toots Thielemans ...
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