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Art Taylor: A.T.'S Delight
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con Art Blakey, Art Taylor rappresenta al meglio le caratteristiche più tipiche del drumming dell’hardbop. Incisivo, dinamico, multicolore ma anche duttile, come dimostrano le sue collaborazioni discografiche a tutto campo con Coltrane, Davis, Coleman Hawkins e mille altre stelle del firmamento jazzistico, tra gli anni ’50 e ’60. Art’s Delight è il suo terzo disco da ...
Suzanne Vega: Beauty & Crime
by Ken Kase
Once the public face of a largely over-hyped folk music resurgence in the mid-eighties, Suzanne Vega has remained remarkably consistent. Early in her career, popular successes such as the hits “Luca" and “Tom's Diner, while padding the artist's purse, have unfortunately overshadowed her accomplishments as a songwriter. Over the years, she would embrace and discard a ...
Joe Lovano and Hank Jones: Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Lovano is an old-school saxophonist, a throwback to the golden age of jazz. While he has, of course, incorporated modern innovations introduced by saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, as well as others into his style, his exuberant playing maintains a direct line through the history of jazz, incorporating swing, bebop, big band, and modal ...
Jacky Terrasson: Mirror
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Solo piano is a risky business: if the pianist hasn't got the stuff, there's absolutely nothing to hide behind. It's not enough to noodle aimlessly, pretending that every note is profound, or to fill the air with thunderous pounding that's more noise than brilliance. There should be real substance: thoughtfulness in both the choice of material ...
Bill Frisell / Matt Chamberlain / Lee Townsend / Tucker Martine: Floratone
by John Kelman
The role of producer can range from bean counter and clock watcher to active musical participant, involved with details of arrangement and instrumentation. Still, it's almost unprecedented to see a collaborative group that lists not one, but two producers as actual band members. Even Teo Macero, who during Miles Davis' electric period, used innovative editing techniques ...
Robert Glasper: In My Element
by Chris May
Pianist Robert Glasper's embrace of hip hop--which is being foregrounded by Blue Note, presumably as a device to widen his trio's appeal--is, truth be told, overstated going on misleading. For at its core, Glasper's music is everything that hip hop is not, or anyway not what it is perceived to be. In My Element--a wonderfully rounded ...
Blue Mitchell: Down With It!
by Matt Leskovic
It's about time that everyone gets down with Blue Mitchell. During an era when hard bop giants roamed the earth, trumpeter Blue Mitchell was overshadowed by his more brash contemporaries such as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. While Mitchell may have not been the most daring hard bop trumpeter, he was unquestionably one of ...
Steve Kuhn Trio: Live at Birdland
by Larry Taylor
It's been said that “Jazz is the sound of surprise. Surprise is what you get with pianist Steve Kuhn's Trio on Live at Birdland. Like a face in a Picasso abstract, parts of a whole come at you from all angles, hardly recognizable. What the artist is showing is, however, crystal clear. Kuhn ingeniously de-constructs standards, ...
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
by Greg Camphire
Like its historic 2005 discovery of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, Blue Note Records has unearthed another masterpiece from the vaults with Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964. The double-disc collection is a monumental portrayal of an all-star group at the height of its powers, led by the bassist/composer ...
Steve Kuhn Trio: Live At Birdland
by Joel Roberts
Although Steve Kuhn has recorded as a leader in a variety of settings since the 1960s, has played in the bands of legends like Stan Getz, Kenny Dorham and even John Coltrane (he preceded McCoy Tyner in Coltrane's quartet), he's seldom mentioned in the pantheon of jazz piano giants. His Blue Note debut, Live at Birdland, ...
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