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Charles Lloyd: The Water is Wide
by C. Andrew Hovan
These are busy guys so it took a long time to work out the schedule for a recording session back in December of 1999, but Charles Lloyd managed to bring together this cross-generational fellowship and the results are indeed splendid. John Abercrombie and Billy Higgins are holdovers from the Voice in the Night album, with pianist ...
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Great Summit: The Complete Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
After already leading his illustrious band for many decades, Duke Ellington saw fit to engage in a number of extracurricular activities during the early part of the ‘60s. All of these endeavors proved to be quite successful, including Impulse dates with John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins and the celebrated Money Jungle with Charles Mingus and Max ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis With John Coltrane
by C. Andrew Hovan
Some nine years after Miles Davis’ untimely death, Columbia Records is still repackaging his recorded legacy. The most recent efforts in this area have been made available both on compact disc and in 180-gram vinyl versions by way of Mosaic Records. It is the latter edition that this review is based on, though it ...
Bobo Stenson Trio: Serenity
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of the great European jazz units, the Bobo Stenson piano trio has held its eminent position among the heady stable of ECM artists since the early '70s. Stenson and drummer Jon Christensen partnered as early as 1969, appearing together on Bobo's 1971 ECM date Underwear. Recent endeavors have included the critically-acclaimed 1997 recording War Orphans ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis With John Coltrane
by C. Andrew Hovan
Some nine years after Miles Davis’ untimely death, Columbia Records is still repackaging his recorded legacy. The most recent efforts in this area have been made available both on compact disc and in 180-gram vinyl versions by way of Mosaic Records. It is the latter edition that this review is based on, though it should be ...
Reuben Brown: Blue and Brown
by C. Andrew Hovan
A native of Washington D.C., pianist Reuben Brown seems to have made a few records back in the early ‘90s and then disappeared, taken off the scene by some illness alluded to in the liners to this set. In addition to those sides cut in 1994 that appeared on his debut trio date for SteepleChase, Ice ...
Dave Ballou: Volition
by C. Andrew Hovan
In his liner notes to this, the second date as a leader from trumpeter Dave Ballou, writer Mark Gardner sagaciously mentions Tim Hagan, John Swana, and Tom Williams among the talented crew of trumpeters who emerged during the early ‘90s. Of course, Ballou also fits into this group and each of these four men have in ...
Harold Danko Quartet: Stable Mates
by C. Andrew Hovan
It’s a shame that we see so little press for those few working bands currently in existence. It’s bad enough that money and schedules make it difficult to keep any kind of firm line-up in place for very long, making such business enterprises almost unviable these days. Little beyond their developing catalog of SteepleChase sides seems ...
Louis Smith: Soon
by C. Andrew Hovan
Fast approaching his 70th birthday, trumpeter Louis Smith made a minor splash with the two Blue Note records he led back in the mid ‘50s, only to then vanish under the cover of jazz pedagogy. To be exact, from 1958 to 1978 Smith did not perform or record as a leader, but was active as an ...
Horace Parlan: The Complete Blue Note Horace Parlan Sessions
by C. Andrew Hovan
Aside from the obvious heavyweights who came through the Blue Note fold, there’s that whole cast of musicians who fall under the category of “talent deserving of wider recognition”. Arguably, Blue Note might have been even more proficient at expounding the work of these neglected artists. Although not an exhaustive list, some of the names to ...
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