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Curtis Fuller: The Opener
by Graham L. Flanagan
What a rare privilege it is to review a new entry in Blue Note's esteemed RVG reissues series knowing that the featured artist can still be caught at venues around New York City. Such is the case with trombone virtuoso Curtis Fuller, whose 1957 Blue Note debut The Opener has been remastered courtesy of the great ...
J.R. Monterose: J.R. Monterose
by Clifford Allen
J.R. Monterose J.R. Monterose Blue Note 2008 Tenor saxophonist J.R. Monterose (Frank Anthony Monterose, Jr.) made only two appearances on Blue Note, both in 1956--one with trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Jazz Prophets recorded live at the Café Bohemia and the other as a leader of his own crack hard ...
Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This terrific recording by Eliane Elias salutes the 50th anniversary of bossa nova in a number of explicit ways. For one thing, it contains the three most famous tunes by its most famous composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Girl from Ipanema," “Desafinado," and “Chega de Saudade,"), where Elias paraphrases his familiar piano solos; for another, the generous ...
Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer
by Joel Roberts
Wayne Shorter was setting the jazz world on fire at the time of this 1965 Blue Note session, now available as part of the Rudy van Gelder remaster series. The tenor saxophonist had just joined Miles Davis' quintet, with whom he'd go on to make six classic albums, and he'd recently released a milestone album of ...
Stanley Turrentine: Dearly Beloved
by David Rickert
If ever there was a horn that was a perfect pairing with the Hammond B-3, it was Stanley Turrentine's. His best work was always done in combination with an organ (usually that of his wife Shirley Scott) where he coaxed out purring, laid back melodies over simmering chords. The Prestige label would take the organ combo ...
Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Chris May
For most people, bossa nova began in 1962, the year tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's album Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) and 45rpm pull “Desafinado" stormed up the pop albums and singles charts. That fall, “Desafinado" sold approaching 500,000 copies and by the year's end America had gone bossa nova crazy. But in its birthplace, Brazil, bossa nova ...
Curtis Fuller: The Opener
by Chris May
Detroit-born trombonist Curtis Fuller stepped into the hard bop big league during the summer of 1957 with a flurry of high profile sideman dates and two albums as leader, New Trombone (Prestige, 1957) and The Opener, made within a few weeks of each other. The Opener, a lithe and soulful but largely forgotten disc, has been ...
Jimmy Smith: Plays Fats Waller
by David Rickert
It makes sense that Jimmy Smith recorded an album's worth of Fats Waller tunes, since Waller himself was a pioneer on the organ in a jazz context. But it makes even more sense when you consider that Smith applied the single note runs of a pianist to his instrument, and Waller, no slouch on the piano ...
Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema
by Chris May
Best known for his five-year tenure with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, pianist Aaron Parks is the second Blanchard graduate to debut under his own name on Blue Note in 2008. His disc follows percussionist Lionel Loueke's Karibu (Blue Note, 2008), a fitfully engaging album flawed by trying too hard. Invisible Cinema by contrast is a corker, a ...
Milton Nascimento with the Jobim Trio: Novas Bossas
by David Rickert
The Bossa Nova craze has been over for several years, but every so often an album comes out that proves there is still much to explore within the genre. Novas Bossas, a collaboration between Milton Nascimento and the Jobim Trio, certainly has the pedigree to turn out a classic; Nascimento was one of the late stars ...
