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Joe Lovano: Flights Of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition 2
by AAJ Staff
Will Joe Lovano never cease to amaze?“Flights Of Fancy" being a literary term for the human capacity for “imagination," Lovano's new trio CD is aptly named.Following up on his 1998 trio CD with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones, “Trio Fascination, Edition 1," Lovano imaginatively transforms even the expectations for a reed-led trio ...
Chucho Vald: Solo: Live In New York
by Jim Santella
Recorded in 1998 at Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York, Chucho Valdés' solo piano album brings familiar melodies to the audience with his personal zeal for powerful rhythms ingrained. Zestful ideas and constant shifts characterize his approach. Opening with a heartfelt ballad and including such familiar melodies as “Bésame Mucho" and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow," ...
Dianne Reeves: The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan
by Jim Santella
Dianne Reeves and Sarah Vaughan have a lot in common. They share an emotional, from-the-heart form of communicating with an audience. A full, rich vocal tone and dramatic spirit bring them closer together with every phrase. Both appreciate a beautiful song, and both augment their presentations with unique, wordless vocal styles. With a full string orchestra ...
Ron Carter: When Skies Are Grey...
by C. Andrew Hovan
Sometimes knowing the whole story can enhance the appreciation of a work of art. In the case of When Skies Are Grey..., the death of Carter's wife around the same time as the recording session helped make the disc a tangible example of the human spirit overcoming adversity. Far from the gloomy state that its title ...
Various: Calle 54
by AAJ Staff
In an odd twist, Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba chose to base the conception of his new movie, Calle 54, with the music. In this case, he investigates Latin jazz. That’s the way music should be presented cinematically . After the germination of his musical thesis, Trueba dramatizes it visually somewhat akin to Disney’s ground-breaking, albeit ...
Mose Allison: The Mose Chronicles Volume One
by AAJ Staff
Mose Allison is amazing. The pianist/singer/songwriter has now been plying his craft for 50 years, and this first volume of The Mose Chronicles, which documents a January 2000 trio gig in London, shows no diminution of his powers. Start with his piano playing: His ambling runs on “Entruption,” which opens the disc, have the suave rhythmic ...
Mose Allison: The Mose Chronicles, Volume 1
by Dave Nathan
Few white performers have captured the soul, heart and emotion of the blues better than Jack Teagarden and Mose Allison. With Volume One in the title as well as the expectations created by the word Chronicles, this release should be the first of other releases by Blue Note documenting the contributions Mose Allison has made to ...
St. Germain: Tourist
by David Adler
The attempt to blur and redefine genres by combining techno and jazz began roughly 10 years ago, and French DJ St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre) has become one of the more celebrated practitioners of the very young art form. A risk that goes with this territory is that in the hope of pleasing techno and jazz ...
Ron Carter: When Skies Are Grey
by AAJ Staff
Ron Carter's expansive interests long have included investigations into the nature of Latin music, and then the recording of his own interpretations of it. Fusing his legendary experience as a bassist extraordinaire with the rhythmic displacements and variety of Latin music, Carter's seeming ease and his statesman-like approach to the instrument have made the music accessible ...
Ron Carter: When Skies Are Grey...
by Jim Santella
While a Latin jazz element is his focus for this project, veteran Ron Carter’s recordings always hold the mainstream of jazz in high regard. A quiet session that swings, the bassist’s latest album swirls through the tradition with a light conga tinge. Bob Freedman’s intricate arrangements place the bassist in roles ranging from opening obbligato to ...
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