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Various Artists: Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by Jim Santella
The disasters that struck New Orleans this year affected all of us deeply. We've watched and read and listened intently as the news unfolded. Tragic stories and heroic adventures combined with political jibe to take over. This hasn't been about some group of strangers from afar; it's hit us hard, and the hurt is still with ...
Gerald Wilson: The Artist Selects
by Jerry D'Souza
Blue Note recently launched a series of recordings on which the artist selects the music--called, appropriately enough, “The Artist Selects." Gerald Wilson, who made several strong records for Pacific Jazz in the sixties, gets his due on this compilation. Wilson brings some sentiment into his selections. There is a tune that he wrote for his wife, ...
Andrew Hill: Andrew!!!
by Nic Jones
Trying to locate a “primary genre" for Andrew Hill's music is no easy task, not least because--like Monk, Herbie Nichols, and Pee Wee Russell--his music is so resolutely his own that the only frame of reference that can be applied to it is the music of the individual. Hill produced a body of recordings for Blue ...
Booker Ervin: Tex Book Tenor
by Norman Weinstein
I always thought the ultimate performances of tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin were on (arguably) the greatest studio recordings of Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um and Blues and Roots. This magnificent and long-overdue reissue of a Booker Ervin Blue Note session from 1968 has caused me to alter my opinion. I think this was the tenor saxman's ...
Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions
by Chris May
It's hard enough finding any sort of jukebox in a bar these days, and as for one with some jazz on it, you can forget it, at least here in Inglan. But there was a time, in inner city US neighbourhood bars anyway, when both things were commonplace. The last gasp was the early '60s, when ...
Lou Donaldson: The Artist Selects
by Chris May
Blue Note's new Artist Selects series presumably takes its cue from ECM's recent Rarum initiative: the tracks on the CDs are chosen by the artists themselves, who also write about them in the liner notes. Along with this set from Lou Donaldson, the first batch of albums includes collections by Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, and--from Pacific ...
Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisors
by Ty Cumbie
It is gratifying to read A.B. Spelling's original liner notes for Don Cherry's 1966 recording Symphony for Improvisers, the first sentence of which begins “The New Music is no longer new and goes on to point out the developments over the preceding ten years. Free jazz is still a powerful draw for musicians and still inspires ...
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall
by Samuel Chell
I don't recall a jazz CD ever receiving as much pre-release publicity as this one, Newsweek even referring to it as the “musical equivalent of the discovery of a new Mount Everest." Consequently, a listener couldn't be faulted for some anticlimactic sentiments, if not outright disappointment, at having the product in hand. Not to worry. Even ...
Robert Glasper: Canvas
by Mark F. Turner
In addition to unveiling gems from the past like John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk's At Carnegie Hall, Blue Note continues to spotlight the musicians of present with recordings like Robert Glasper's Canvas. Similar to Jason Moran, Jacky Terrasson, and Bill Charlap, who also record for Blue Note, Glasper has the vision and ability to create a ...
Robert Glasper: Canvas
by Woodrow Wilkins
Robert Glasper Canvas Blue Note Records 2005 Wow! That's the first expression that came to mind when I heard “Rise and Shine, the opening track on Canvas. Pianist Robert Glasper's trio--including Vicente Archer on bass and Damion Reid on drums--is as tight as a unit can. This aptly named tune, ...
