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Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With the Blues
by Mike Perciaccante
What do you get when you pair a certified country music renegade with contemporary jazz's “keeper of the flame"? When the renegade is Willie Nelson and the jazz champion is Wynton Marsalis, the end result is one of the best CDs of 2008.Two Men With the Blues was recorded during a historic two-night stand ...
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded live during “Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," his 2007 two-night stand with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet for Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Marsalis serves as artistic director, Two Men with the Blues is by far the most enjoyable music of 2008. Nelson and Marsalis meet each other halfway between the acoustic country blues ...
Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema
by J Hunter
When Aaron Parks first appeared with Terence Blanchard, the then-19-year old pianist with wild hair and rumpled clothing made him indistinguishable from many of the young jazz fans who came to see Blanchard's return from the world of Spike Lee film scores. Looks can be deceiving though as Parks would later become a key contributor to ...
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims: Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jutta Hipp proves one of the more curious tales in a music whose history is full of curiosities: She grew up studying jazz piano and painting in her native Germany, then moved to New York City in late 1955. She played piano in and around the city for about a year, including performances documented on two ...
Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
by Suzanne Lorge
When Cassandra Wilson played New York's Blue Note Jun. 9th, she let her band jam a long time before she stepped into the heavy mix of groove and musical jest among the instrumentalists. The room was sweltering because of the day's heat and the seemingly absent air conditioning, but Wilson never broke a sweat. Wilson always ...
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
by Chris May
In case you missed it, back in 2006 singer and guitarist Willie Nelson--then 73 years young-- got busted in Louisiana. Highway police following Nelson's band bus noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming out of the windows, stopped the vehicle and found somewhere between one and a half and two pounds of weed and a bag ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Avatar
by Luis T. Martinez
Having matured and no longer needing to prove his chops to others or himself, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba has turned his attention to ensembling and orchestration, and in no other work is this more evident than Avatar. Only after multiple listens does it become clear how the compositions are driving the improvisations and not the other way ...
Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
by Chris May
Cassandra Wilson's Loverly is amongst the singer's most straight-ahead and stripped down albums since her debut for Blue Note fifteen years ago with Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993). Self-produced, and recorded in a rented house in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi with little artifice, simple arrangements and a great sound, Wilson and a core ...
Dianne Reeves: When You Know
by Jim Santella
True love has been a timeless topic for poets, storytellers and minstrels since the world began. From a young lover's innocent stares and awkward movements to the more compassionate phases that follow, Dianne Reeves turns her attention to the awareness that grabs hold when love takes over. What better way for an emotional singer to reach ...
Various Artists: New York Is Our Home
by Chris May
One of four themed, double-CD compilations from the Blue Note vaults released in the same month--the others are African Rhythms (1960s hard bop homages to Africa), The Funk Jazz Brothers (early 1970s funk-jazz) and On The Corner (early 1970s fusion)--New York Is Our Home brings together twenty tracks recorded by Blue Note artists between 1953-58 which ...
