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Lionel Loueke: Karibu
by Mark F. Turner
With an emotive sound that is rooted in his homeland of Benin, Africa, guitarist Lionel Loueke is having a positive impact on the current jazz environment. His Blue Note debut, Karibu (from a Swahili word meaning “welcome"), is an appropriate invitation to his unique appeal which includes virtuoso guitar playing and vocals in his native language. ...
Franco D'Andrea Quartet: The Siena Concert
by AAJ Italy Staff
E' sempre un piacere ascoltare un CD di Franco D'Andrea. La sua musica, la conosciamo bene, è sempre densa e ricca di contenuti. E' sempre portatrice di un'idea. Musica essenziale, per così dire. Ogni nota al suo posto, con precisione chirurgica. Mai una nota superflua. L'arte della sottrazione al suo massimo grado, senza per questo diventare ...
Eliane Elias: Something For You: Eliane Elias Sings and Plays Bill Evans
by Dan McClenaghan
Everybody digs Bill Evans, the pianist who changed the face of the piano trio in jazz with his Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside Records, 1961) and Waltz for Debby (Riverside Records, 1961). These were the albums that brought a then unheard of level of interaction between the pianist and his trio mates, bassist Scott LaFaro ...
Lou Donaldson: Lush Life
by Jeff Stockton
Lou Donaldson's Lush Life is the sort of mysterious lost session that inexplicably fell through the cracks from time to time at Blue Note Records during their wildly productive 1960s and the sort of collectable that used to make vinyl hawks salivate. This January 1967 session, unreleased until 1980 when it debuted in Japan under a ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Avatar
by Jay Deshpande
Although his sound is as blazing and inspiring as ever, Gonzalo Rubalcaba's new album may mark something of a departure. Recorded at the famed New York studio of the same name, Avatar provides listeners with a unique melting pot of songs and styles, while also implying new freedom and possibility for the renowned Cuban pianist. Only ...
Horace Silver: Live At Newport '58
by Chris May
Fifty years on, and previously unreleased, this boisterous festival performance by pianist Horace Silver's quintet is 40 minutes of hard swinging, compositionally distinguished, primo hard bop. It's also the only known recording by a band in the process of morphing from the line-up which recorded Further Explorations (Blue Note, 1958) to the one which cut Finger ...
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
by Chris M. Slawecki
Confrontational, sprawling and historic, this resurrected March 1964 performance by one of his favorite bands--Johnny Coles (trumpet) and Clifford Jordan (saxophone) with favorite sons Dannie Richmond (drums), Jaki Byard (piano) and Eric Dolphy (reeds, flutes)--presents the muse of bassist Charles Mingus in all its terrible glory. Split here between two CDs, this performance begins ...
Horace Silver: Live at Newport '58
by Greg Camphire
Blue Note continues to bless fans with hidden gems from deep in its vaults with Live at Newport '58, a previously unreleased set catching Horace Silver in the midst of his ascent as a major creative force. Featuring a transitional line-up of the pianist's revolving quintet as they headline the famed festival, the band can be ...
Horace Silver: Live At Newport '58
by C. Michael Bailey
Horace Silver Live At Newport '58 Blue Note 2007 For a jazz artist of such longevity, pianist Horace Silver has precious few live recordings as leader. Before Paris Blues: Olympia Theater, Paris, 1962 (Fantasy, 2003) was released, Silver's single live recording was Doin' The Thing At The Village Gate (Blue ...
Terence Blanchard: A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina)
by John Kelman
Music can be inspired by--and reflective of--world events. Still, many artists believe that music should not be explicitly political: “Not the music itself, thank God," said trumpeter Dave Douglas, in a 2004 AAJ interview. “Music exists in its own space, independent of all of--that's why it has such power to uplift and raise us to a ...
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