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Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours
by C. Michael Bailey
Ambitious projects like Hubert Nuss' The Book of Colours are not unheard of. Here, the German pianist endeavors to explore multiple modes based on a color wheel. Russian synesthete and composer Alexander Scriabin was profoundly moved by the smell and feel of color in his composing, attempting a synthesis of the five senses in his unfinished ...
Duo Fusion: Duo Fusion
by C. Michael Bailey
The best music sometimes comes in the smallest packages. Take, for instance, Duo Fusion, the team of flautist Sarah Swersey and guitarist Joe Belmont. Swersey is classically trained, and has sat as principle flautist for several orchestras. Belmont has played guitar in a variety of genre over several different projects, and possesses considerable jazz chops. The ...
Sarah Partridge: Perspective
by C. Michael Bailey
Sarah Partridge's recital, Perspective, follows three previous vocal recordings that mark the second half of her dual career as actor and singer. On her current offering, Partridge performs a collection of standards, with pianist Daniel May. that is as fresh and solid as Partridge's perfectly refined voice. The true beauty in Partridge's vocal delivery is her ...
Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum
by C. Michael Bailey
At first blush, there is really no reason the eutection of early a capella music and modern saxophone should work. It is antithetical, it makes no sense. However, wizards like Manfred Eicher, saxophonist and ECM stalwart Jan Garbarek, and early music mavens The Hilliard Ensemble not only defy the odds, they redefine them with a bit ...
Ellen Honert: Hummingville
by C. Michael Bailey
Ellen Honert's previous recording, Breath of the Soul (Mill Station, 2006), was a well-balanced affair accented by Honert's precise and sensitive singing. Hummingville, the recording and the title piece are something else altogether. There is a sea breeze in this recording and song, but it is not so much Caribbean as Mediterranean, but in either case, ...
Cynthia Felton: Come Sunday: The Music of Duke Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. Cynthia Felton made quite the splash with her self-produced debut, Afro Blue: The Music of Oscar Brown, Jr. (2009). In the spirit of well-assembled theme recordings like Karrin Allyson's Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord, 2001) and Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4 disc, 69 Annee Erotique, Afro Blue is a solid look at a master's craft ...
Shiny and New... again
by Michael Ricci
Dear fellow AAJ contributor, We're celebrating our 15th anniversary in style with a relaunch. You can read the general announcement here and learn more about some of the specific design improvements below.Index The New All About Jazz Thank You, One and All! Track Reviews According To C. Michael ...
Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb: Reunion
by C. Michael Bailey
Both Hadley Caliman and Pete Christlieb were active on Los Angeles jazz scene going on 50 years ago, and the two tenor saxophonists actually performed together at the time. Real life got in the way, guiding each man in his allotted direction. Origin Records' house pianist (and All About Jazz Contributor) Bill Anschell brought the two ...
The Glenious Inner Planet: The Glenious Inner Planet
by C. Michael Bailey
This is not yourt parent's Dave Brubeck. For that matter, if you put Brubeck in the Telepod from the 1958 film The Fly, with the spirit of Shawn Lane, and teleported them into the future, that might come closest to describing this “Blue Rondo a la Raad." Brubeck is replaced by Chris Cortez's precisely reverberated electric ...
Eric Felton: Seize the Night
by C. Michael Bailey
Eric Felten's Seize the Night is a throwback to the tradition of Jack Teagarden, that has carried forward through Wycliffe Gordon and Vincent Gardner; that is, the tradition of the singer-trombonist. A talented songwriter, Felten, is also quite the instrumentalist in composing and performing, as evidenced by his original ,"Three-Martini Lunch." More swing ...
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