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Jason Moran: Artist in Residence
by Mark F. Turner
Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and Jason Moran's Artist In Residence is no exception. An enigmatic traditionalist, Moran has produced releases that are as diverse as his reinterpretation the blues on Same Mother (Blue Note, 2005) or his conceptualization of the soundtrack of daily life on his debut, Soundtrack to Human ...
Various Artists: Righteousness
by Chris May
When founder/producer Alfred Lion retired from Blue Note in 1967, the label was plunged into a creative decline from which it never recovered. If that proposition was put to the critics, chances are most of them would agree. Lion was such a massively influential figure, and the various strands of hard bop he fostered on Blue ...
Stefon Harris: African Tarantella: Dances with Duke
by Jim Santella
With three selections from Duke Ellington's “New Orleans Suite, two from his “Queen's Suite and three more from Stefan Harris' own “Gardner Meditations, African Tarantella conveys a sincere appreciation for lyrical beauty. Like the original purpose for a tarantella, the music transfixes you with its magic spell. Much of Ellington's music had that quality, and it's ...
Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay
by Norman Weinstein
This album has certainly had a sad history. It was left in the Blue note vaults for fourteen years. Then it was reissued in a double-vinyl set with Hub Cap, a coupling that doesn't reveal either session in the best light.Then a decade later, it finally was released as a single album. And that brings us ...
Donald Byrd: Royal Flush
by Samuel Chell
Donald Byrd Royal Flush Blue Note 2006 One of a handful of Rudy Van Gelder remasters released this past August, Royal Flush would be welcome if only because it's the recording debut of Herbie Hancock. Looking all of fourteen in the photo included with the accompanying booklet (he was 21 ...
Jason Moran: Artist in Residence
by Paul Olson
Pianist/composer Jason Moran has never made the same album twice. While his Bandwagon group with bassist Tarus Mateen, drummer Nasheet Waits and, of late, guitarist Marvin Sewell, remains a constant presence on all but his 2002 solo record Modernistic, it's the only constant in a recorded career marked by a restless insistence on trying out new ...
Jane Bunnett: Radio Guantánamo: Guantánamo Blues Project Vol. 1
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Canadian saxophonist/flautist Jane Bunnett's latest installment in her long and amply requited love affair with Cuban music directs our attention to changüi, a precursor to son from the eastern part of the island that dates back to the late eighteenth century. Two changüi ensembles, from Santiago and Guantánamo (the latter featuring the incredible singing of José ...
Joe Lovano: Streams Of Expression
by Robert R. Calder
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note Records 2006 Forget those ill-founded accusations of conservatism. Joe Lovano is a genuine innovator. He's uninterested in novelty for novelty's sake and he's very, very ambitious for his music. He makes things more interesting for everybody, including himself, by (no apologies for the ...
U - Street All Stars: Bowling
by AAJ Italy Staff
Suonano hard bop coniugato con il funky e il soul. Non sono afroamericani, ma bianchissimi filandesi che in una manciata di anni si sono imposti sulla scena delle nuove leve jazzistiche. Nati nel 2000 proprio in un locale trendy di una delle più affollate vie di Helsinki, Uudenmaankatu, parola impronunciabile che sta per U - Street, ...
Ike Quebec: It Might As Well Be Spring
by Chris May
A generation older than the tenor saxophone young Turks who helped define Blue Note during its 1955-65 heyday, Ike Quebec's style was fully formed a decade before the innovations of Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson--and his legacy has been consistently overshadowed as a result. But while Quebec may not have been storming any barricades, ...
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