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Grant Green: Live at Club Mozambique
by Norman Weinstein
This is some apotheosis of both jazz-funk and Grant Green, just when you thought Blue Note was practicing overexposure by adding yet another Green disk to last year's three discs worth of funky compilations. But this live session, which spent 35 years in the vault, transcends all previous Grant Green funk sessions by a mile.
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by John Kelman
British woodwind player Tim Garland has praised Joe Lovano for “the way he looks forward and backwards on the horn simultaneously, covering the whole tradition, yet looking way, way forward at the same time. Nowhere is this more evident than on Streams of Expression, where the woodwind multi-instrumentalist teams up with Third Stream progenitor Gunther Schuller ...
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by Jim Santella
Were he still with us, Miles Davis would have turned eighty this year. But he is still with us through his music and the influence that he had on jazz all over the world, for all those who have been influenced by his poise and flair. With an interpretation of the Birth of the ...
Joe Lovano: Streams of Expression
by Mark F. Turner
Jazz suites have been elaborate works of creative composition since the days of Duke Ellington, and they continue to be on Streams of Expression. Revisiting the sounds of Joe Lovano's larger ensembles works like 52nd Street Themes, the recording is a change in direction compared to his two previous quartet releases. Lovano's biggish sound is back, ...
Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique
by Kevin Ray
This album, recorded in 1967, is so special that it's hard to imagine why it wasn't released until 1980--and even then, only in Japan. Energy, creativity and empathy permeate it, and the players fit together wonderfully. Bassist Albert Stinson is subtle and inventive, making it all the more of a loss that he died two years ...
Andrew Hill: Smoke Stack
by John Kelman
Emerging at the beginning of the '60s, Andrew Hill was always difficult to pigeonhole. The pianist was too aligned with mainstream harmony to be considered avant garde, too complex a writer to be considered free, too abstruse a player to be considered mainstream. The people at Blue Note knew they had a gem when they signed ...
Grant Green: Live At Club Mozambique
by Chris May
A previously unreleased live session, Live At Club Mozambique captures Grant Green at the start of his final, groove-driven decade. By this time, fame and dope had taken a heavy toll on the guitarist, who'd downsized to Detroit, where Club Mozambique hosted one of his regular gigs. Blue Note, now without Alfred Lion, pulled out several ...
Johnny Coles: Little Johnny C
by AAJ Italy Staff
Scavando in queste session del 1963, troviamo un solista di tromba squisito, dal racconto ellittico, ammiccante. Il sound è fine, quasi vaporoso, ma non manca di carattere. E’ sulla linea del Miles anni '50, quasi ansioso di liberarsi di quel fascino che attanagliava tutti i trombettisti di introspettivo lirismo. D’altra parte, Coles aveva contribuito alle trame ...
Paolo Fresu Quintet: Incantamento
by AAJ Italy Staff
Uno per cinque e il jazz del Paolo Fresu Quintet continua a girare. Dopo le “stazioni” di P.a.r.t.e. (Attilio Zanchi) e Kosmopolites (Roberto Cipelli), il progetto musicale a cinque primi piani alternati concede spazio al sax tenore e soprano di Tino Tracanna, autore di tredici delle quattordici tracce del nuovo episodio. E dire che Fresu è ...
The Horace Silver Quintet: Horace-Scope
by Samuel Chell
It's highly doubtful there's been a more instantaneously infectious recent release than this new Rudy Van Gelder edition of a 1960 Horace Silver master session. Without as much as a pickup note, the opening measure places the listener in stride with as irresistible a tune as Silver ever composed: “Strollin.'" The remaining pieces are no less ...
