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Kurt Elling: Live In Chicago
by Jim Santella
Kurt Elling and his trio should be on television. They appear regularly on Wednesdays at The Green Mill in Chicago, and his in-person performances are superb. Only the singer’s fourth album in five years, this one was recorded live July 14-16, 1999 with several influential guests. “My Foolish Heart," a carry-over from his last album, offers ...
Kurt Elling: Live In Chicago
by Mark Corroto
Singer Kurt Elling’s first three recordings for Blue Note records were quite ambitious, but being studio albums, they lost much of Elling’s spirit in the production. The jazz singer, like the poet, is best heard live. Elling, captured during a three-night gig at Chicago’s Green Mill, finally has realized (on record) his full potential. He’s a ...
Kurt Elling: Live In Chicago
by Jim Santella
Kurt Elling and his trio should be on television. They appear regularly on Wednesdays at The Green Mill in Chicago, and his in-person performances are superb. Only the singer’s fourth album in five years, this one was recorded live July 14-16, 1999 with several influential guests. “My Foolish Heart," a carry-over from his last album, offers ...
Kurt Elling: Live In Chicago
by Mark Corroto
Singer Kurt Elling’s first three recordings for Blue Note records were quite ambitious, but being studio albums, they lost much of Elling’s spirit in the production. The jazz singer, like the poet, is best heard live. Elling, captured during a three-night gig at Chicago’s Green Mill, finally has realized (on record) his full potential. He’s a ...
Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense
by Jim Santella
Lee Morgan wrote music that is both enjoyable and intriguing. Hits such as “The Sidewinder" and “Ceora" contain catchy melodies that bounce and sway. It’s the kind of music that stays popular through many generations. Five of his originals appear on this reissue of the trumpeter’s 1968 album; three previously unissued tracks from another recording session ...
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: The Witch Doctor
by Jim Santella
With Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan in the front line, this was one of Art Blakey’s best Jazz Messenger units. Bobby Timmons, of course, could swing the section from start to finish. Shorter, Morgan, and Timmons were with the Jazz Messengers together through most of 1960 and 1961. The Witch Doctor was recorded March 14, 1961. ...
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Roots And Herbs
by Jim Santella
Recorded early in 1961, not released on LP until nine years later, and now available as a CD, Roots And Herbs carries on the tradition of hard bop and those unique features that set the genre apart from other forms of jazz. Art Blakey’s quintet recorded the compositions of Wayne Shorter at three sessions in February ...
Lee Konitz: Another Shade Of Blue
by Mike Neely
To be able to hear the hesitancies and offerings of vivid thought and in turn the delicate reactions of exchange is to hear the poetry of jazz at its elemental level. This is the accomplishment of a recent Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, and Charlie Haden trio recording entitled: “Another Shade Of Blue." This CD is the ...
Grant Green: Grant's First Stand
by C. Andrew Hovan
Leaving his native St. Louis in 1959, guitarist Grant Green got his first big break appearing with tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest and made his recording debut on Forrest's All The Gin Is Gone. While in Chicago, he then appeared on organist Sam Lazar's Space Flight before hooking up with Lou Donaldson in New York. The rest ...
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Roots and Herbs
by C. Andrew Hovan
Arguably one of the best bands to ever be assembled under the Jazz Messengers moniker, drummer Art Blakey’s crew from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s included such legendary figures as Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and Bobby Timmons. Blue Note producer Alfred Lion surely knew he had a good thing going because he kept these guys ...
