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Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
by C. Michael Bailey
Various Artists Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Records 2009 “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire ...
Delta Blues & the Birth (and Death) of the Cool: Two definitive Ted Gioia Histories
by C. Michael Bailey
Does the music world need one more history of Delta blues music? Does a survey of a spongy concept like “cool" have any relevance in a post-9/11 world? Considering Robert Palmer authored a definitive narrative on depression-era Mississippi Delta music in Deep Blues (Viking, 1981) almost 30 years ago, and that Martin Williams and David Rosenthal, ...
C. Michael Bailey's Top 10 Best Releases of 2009
by C. Michael Bailey
Ten of them. Here they are: Martial SolalLive at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But LoveCam JazzMartial Solal is a nuclear physicist of the piano. He tinkers with the subatomic structure of compositions, moving elements around, pulling them apart, and smashing them together in ways ...
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band: Live at Woodstock
by C. Michael Bailey
Great Britain taught America to be proud of her musical heritage by importing it, transforming it, and sending it back to her. The American South between 1920 and 1960 was a hothouse for all of America's great musical offerings: blues, R&B, country, jazz, and rock and roll. All of these genres germinated in the United States, ...
A Cool World Christmas: Carla Bley, Trio West and Wynton Marsalis
by C. Michael Bailey
It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion ...
Theo Bleckmann and Fumio Yasuda: Schumann's Favored Bar Songs
by C. Michael Bailey
Schumann's Bar am Hofgarten is located at Odeonsplatz 6+7 80539 Munich, Germany. It derives its name from founder and bartender, Charles Schumann, who originally ran a similar bar in New York City. It is a world famous watering hole for the rich and and famous, something Schumann has cultivated among his patrons. Winter and Winter, who ...
A Bold World Christmas: Sylvia Bennett, Eddie Allen, The Hot Club of San Francisco
by C. Michael Bailey
Here is the middle of the road in holiday music. There is a little bit of something for everyone here: the contemporary caroling of Sylvia Bennett, the smart jazz of Eddie Allen, and the Django Reinhardt guitar tang of The Hot Club of San Francisco. Sylvia BennettIt's Christmas Time with Sylvia BennettNaxos
A New World Christmas: Twentieth Century Masters, Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and Stephen Chatman
by C. Michael Bailey
The “New World" here is not only America but the post-19th century. Great Britain is most responsible for the expansion of the holiday canon in the 20th century with music by Holst, Vaughn Williams, Finzi, Howells and Warlock. The American side of the pond is fortunate to have two composers with big ideas regarding Christmas fare, ...
An Old World Christmas: Knabenchor Hannover, Die Gruppe fur Alte Musik Munchen and Flautando Koln
by C. Michael Bailey
My family is hosting a German Foreign Exchange student this year. Among the many questions he has been asked by his American peers is, “How do you celebrate Christmas in Germany?" Innocent enough, but considering that German culture is millenia old compared to that of the US, Germany might be expected to celebrate Christmas much like ...
Steven Schoenberg: Steven Schoenberg Live: An Improvisational Journey
by C. Michael Bailey
Like the face of Helen launching a thousand ships, for better or worse, Keith Jarrett's 1975 Koln Concert (ECM) inspired a like number of improvisational piano recitals (half of which were ultimately Jarrett's own) and the entire genre of “New Age" solo piano music. This spontaneous creativity is, at best an inspiration, and at worst, a ...
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