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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 ...
Ignacio Berroa: Codes
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
For some insight into the codes to which the title of drummer Ignacio Berroa's debut album refers, compare his version of the António Carlos Jobim classic “Inútil Paisagem with the excellent piano trio version by Aaron Goldberg on Worlds (Sunnyside, 2006). Goldberg takes it very slow and successfully taps into the number's rarefied, slightly decadent Brazilian ...
Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around
by Samuel Chell
"The Tower of Power," “Long Tall," “LT"--you don't acquire such noms de troubadour by being retiring or inconspicuous in your approach to making music. Indeed, Dexter Gordon is such a forceful presence and commanding storyteller that he can be a heavy load, requiring nothing less than the listener's undivided attention. Gettin' Around, a 2006 release of ...
Art Blakey: Holiday For Skins
by Chris May
An unpleasant odour of Eurocentric condescension has hung over Art Blakey's drum choir projects ever since they were recorded in the late 1950s. Orgy In Rhythm (1957) and Holiday For Skins (1958)--both originally released as two LPs and both now packaged on single CDs, the latter newly available in this Connoisseur edition--have been viewed by some ...
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