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Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn?
by Ollie Bivens
With the reissue of Where Is Brooklyn?, Blue Note completes a trilogy of Don Cherry releases (also including Complete Communion and Symphony for Improvisers) which up to now had only been available on CD in a limited edition Mosaic box set. Cherry initially came into wide prominence in jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's landmark ...
Ignacio Berroa: Codes
by Jim Santella
Ignacio Berroa spreads contemporary Latin jazz before him everywhere he goes. It's the music of Dizzy Gillespie, the music of Mario Bauza, and the music of Gonzalo Rubalcaba, David Sánchez, Ed Simon, John Patitucci, and the other members of Berroa's band. Along with a vibrant Latin jazz rhythm and accented melodies, the ensemble adds ...
Herbie Hancock: Great Sessions
by Chris May
Herbie Hancock's music has been in a continuous state of flux since he first started recording in the early 1960s, yet it's possible to identify four distinct phases in his development: the more or less conventional, if more than usually distinctive, hard bop of the very early days; the restlessly exploratory acoustic music made with the ...
Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4
by Chris M. Slawecki
This early favorite among contenders for best debut of 2006 comes from a young Italian composer and trombone player who says, “I always appreciated the vanguards in our musical world, especially the American one at the end of the '60s and for a lot of the '70s. Important influences include Ornette Coleman, the Sun Ra visionary ...
Hank Mobley: Dippin'
by Chris May
Hank Mobley spent most of 1964 banged up for drug offences. The year of the Beatles' US breakthrough, which sounded the final death knell for hard bop as a mainline music of inner city youth, happened beyond Mobley's eyes and ears. Is it too fanciful to suppose he barely noticed it happening? Probably yes. But it ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Nic Jones
Make no mistake--this is a tribute not only to Wes Montgomery, but also the resilience of human creativity. While this might smack of hyperbole, it should be remembered that Martino completely forgot how to play the guitar some 26 years ago as a result of brain surgery, and if diligence and application can supply the kind ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by Chris May
The safest course of action on encountering a tribute album is usually to run like hell in the opposite direction. Which is why this beautiful album stayed unplayed for a couple of weeks before finally, thank God, finding the deck. This recording is just lovely. If Wes Montgomery was alive today, this is almost certainly what ...
Pat Martino: Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery
by John Kelman
Guitarist Pat Martino has overcome far more than his share of obstacles. Emerging in the mid-1960s, he released a string of acclaimed albums starting with the classic El Hombre (Prestige, 1967) and ending with the overlooked fusion classic Joyous Lake (Warner Bros., 1977). Then a brain aneurysm literally stole his identity and for the next decade ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Solo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quest'ultima incisione in solitudine di Gonzalo Rubalcaba è complementare a quella precedente (Paseo), pervasa dai caldi, trascinanti colori del latin jazz. I due CD possono essere elevati a simbolo delle cifra stilistica del pianista cubano, oscillante da sempre tra un approccio adamantino allo strumento e la ricerca di una espressività muscolare ed astratta. Rispetto all'adesione distesa ...
Cassandra Wilson: Thunderbird
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson reached the fulcrum of her career with the refreshingly organic Blue Light 'Til Dawn. Her releases before this 1993 Blue Note debut, including M-Base Collective collaborations in the 1980s, were warmly received if not completely inspired. With Blue Light, Wilson changed her creative paradigm, performing older and more eclectic music in a ...
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