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Allman Brothers Band: The Beacon Theater, New York, March 2011
by C. Michael Bailey
The Allman Brothers Band The Beacon Theater, New York, March 2011Munckmix2011 The past number of years Phish and Gov't Mule have both made it a point to perform classic rock albums in their entirety during their respective Halloween concerts. Last year saw Phish covering Little Feat's Waiting ...
Benny Green: Source
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Benny Green has not been in the studio leading a recording date since his collaboration with Russell Malone, Bluebird (Telarc, 2004). Far from stagnating, Green has most recently been found providing support on recordings like Hilary Kole's You Are There (Justin Time, 2010), Kenny Burrell's Be Yourself (HighNote , 2010) and Anat Cohen's Clarinetworks: Live ...
Alan Adams: My Notes
by C. Michael Bailey
Solo piano recordings of all-original music often bear the burden of being dumped in the same genre bin with George Winston, Jim Brickman and David Lanz. For Portland, Oregon native Alan Adams, this would not be only unfair, it would be unfortunate. Music this finely crafted and wrought was made not only to be listened to ...
I Furiosi: Going for Baroque
by C. Michael Bailey
The Kronos Quartet was revolutionary in the respect that it made a conscious effort to appeal to all age groups at once, with tense and anxious performances like Black Angels (Nonesuch, 1990). The ensemble Red Priest did this same thing, reducing Vivaldi and his friends to a bare minimum, creating some very provocative music in the ...
Corea, Clark & White: Forever
by C. Michael Bailey
This Concord Music Group release is identical to that reviewed by John Kelman, previously released on Universal Music Japan. A two-CD set, the first disc is an acoustic piano trio recital from the original rhythm section of the 1970s fusion band Return to Forever, recorded during the 2009 RTF-Unplugged Tour, while the second is an electric ...
Audrey Silver: Dream Awhile
by C. Michael Bailey
eviews touting a singer's perfect diction are reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (or the Lerner and Lowe 1956 musical and 1964 movie, My Fair Lady), and the plight of Eliza Doolittle to straighten out her coarse Cockney into the Queen's speech). Diction has been a driving force in describing singer Audrey Silver's sophomore recording Dream ...
Nicholas Urie: My Garden
by C. Michael Bailey
Nicholas Urie made an impressive footprint with the release of his Excerpts From and Online Dating Service (Red Piano Records, 2009). The composer/arranger modus operandi changes little on My Garden, where he takes his texts from the poetry of West Coast writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), and weaves them into provocative and often violent tapestries of contemporary ...
Come Sunday: Crosscurrents
by C. Michael Bailey
American roots music can be divided into four broad genres: blues, jazz, country and gospel. A Venn diagram of the relationship of these four would reveal an area of intersection of all these musical elements. It is in this area that the jazz-gospel group Come Sunday achieves its durable yet delicate goal of divining these spirits ...
Bill Anschell: Figments
by C. Michael Bailey
Bill Anschell is a lot of things. He is house pianist and mainstay at Origin Arts, showing up on a wide range of projects. He also contributes to this publication, writing with grace on craft of jazz. But, late at night, he is a musical James Joyce, spinning musical thread off the top of his head. ...
Emmanuel Krivine: Beethoven Complete Symphonies
by C. Michael Bailey
La Chambre Philharmonique, Emmanuel KrivineBeethoven Complete SymphoniesNaive2011 The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the last reserved for the lengthy Ninth ...
