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Donald Byrd: Off To The Races
by John Barron
Donald Byrd Off To The Races Blue Note Records 2006 (1959) Detroit was producing a lot more than cars in the 1950s: the city was a breeding ground for an impressive number of hard bop giants. Two of the most dynamic instrumentalists to trek eastward from Motown to ...
Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Samuel Chell
It would be an exercise in futility to attempt to classify this music. When standard tunes from the American Songbook and jazz idioms such as swing and bebop spark little to no recognition among the general public, music that could once be called “experimental" or “avant-garde" necessarily defines the modern mainstream. If there are similarities with ...
Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions
by Hrayr Attarian
How do you summarize the history of jazz on a couple records? Ask Gil Evans. His two records New Bottle Old Wine (1958) and Great Jazz Standards (1959), originally released on World Pacific, have been reissued on one CD entitled The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions. Each of the fifteen tracks is a chapter in the music's ...
Charles Tolliver: With Love
by Joel Roberts
Charles Tolliver burst onto the scene in the '60s as a young trumpet player to be reckoned with, appearing on seminal Blue Note albums by the likes of Jackie McLean, Horace Silver and Andrew Hill. He later fronted the adventurous Music Inc. quartet and founded his own label, Strata East, with pianist Stanley Cowell, before more ...
Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
by Jim Santella
With this upbeat program of original material, pianist Kenny Werner takes his quintet through a swinging confrontation that combines modern innovation with classical training. His music is timeless. Working with an all-star lineup on Lawn Chair Society that features trumpeter Dave Douglas, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, he's at the top ...
Lee Morgan: The Gigolo
by Samuel Chell
Lee Morgan The Gigolo Blue Note Records 2007 As we observe the 35th anniversary (Feb. 19) of the death of the talented trumpeter who would also become the major player in one of American music's more noteworthy Frankie and Johnny stories, the title of this Lee Morgan session and several ...
Lee Morgan: City Lights
by John Barron
In an era of oversaturation in jazz characterized by an abundance of young performers who seem to favor imitation at the expense of originality, it's invigorating to hear a timeless gem like City Lights. It's hard to contemplate the fact that this music was recorded half a century ago. The precision and inventiveness of Lee Morgan ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by John Barron
The last thing jazz needs is more tribute projects that merely perpetuate the ever-increasing stagnation of an industry trying to make a fast buck off the legacy of fallen giants. At first glance it would appear that this is exactly what Remember is all about. But fortunately, the artist paying tribute here is Philadelphian Pat Martino, ...
Lee Morgan: Tom Cat
by Samuel Chell
As a cat owner, I've learned the hard way that the outdoor variety of felines quickly exhaust their nine lives. Lee Morgan's Tom Cat must be the exception. Recorded in 1964, the session was first released in 1981 (too late, even, to count as “posthumous"), before its most recent reincarnation as an RVG remaster. Blue Note's ...
Joe Williams: Music for Lovers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Joe Williams' Music for Lovers comes closer to the cocktail sophistication of Nat King Cole or Billy Eckstine than to any blues jump or shout to which Williams gave joyous voice as vocalist with the Count Basie Band. Perhaps the best part of this material, drawn from Williams' 1959-63 ballad albums for Roulette Records, ...
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