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The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide
by C. Michael Bailey
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Hardcover; 264 pages ISBN: 0879308257 Backbeat Books 2008 The most informative parts of Scott Yanow's exhaustive survey of jazz singers are the introductory sections. Here Yanow outlines the who, what, when, where and why of jazz singing. In ...
The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody / Naxos, Vol. 1
by C. Michael Bailey
Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives. These two releases provide stark contrast between traditional and progressive performances of not only Ives, but of “art songs" in general. ...
Nicole Herzog: Time Will Tell
by C. Michael Bailey
Slight and striking, the coquette-voiced German Nicole Herzog has the stones to lead her own septet on Time Will Tell. Rather than opting for a trio or quartet format as her ride, Herzog employs the “little big band" concept developed and perfected by Miles Davis with his famous 1949 nonet and 1958 sextet. ...
Todd Bishop's Pop Art 4: 69 Annee Erotique
by C. Michael Bailey
Context can be everything or nothing. Listening to 69 Annee Erotique with no background will spark recognition of well-preserved lounge music of the 1960s/'70s, performed with modern sonics imitating those of the period: A bit of psychedelia wisping into the edges of post-war Western society right before the Summer of Love and the sexual revolution. The ...
Nicholas Urie Large Ensemble: Excerpts From an Online Dating Service
by C. Michael Bailey
Youthfully precocious composer/conductor Nicholas Urie was born in Los Angeles in 1985. He began winning jazz composition awards when he was 17 years old and studied composition with Bob Brookmeyer, then graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music with a master's degree. This résumé establishes Urie as a wunderkind and this designation manifests on his ...
Irene Atman and Daniela Schachter meet at the Intersection of Joel Frahm
by C. Michael Bailey
Nowhere in jazz is the soil so rich as it is in the area of female vocals. Major label, independents, melting pots and old school, there are vocal releases appealing to any persnickety taste. Such a diverse marketplace is to the fortune of the listening public. This fortune is magnified when two dramatically different singers share ...
Till Fellner: Inventionen und Sinfonien / Franzosische Suite V
by C. Michael Bailey
The available recorded music of Johann Sebastian Bach is like sex and pizza: even the worst is still pretty good. This is particularly true of the composer's keyboard music performed on modern piano. Beginning with Glenn Gould in 1955, through recordings by Andras Schiff, Angela Hewitt, and Murray Perahia in the 1980s, '90s, and '00s, Bach ...
L'Tanya Mari': A Teardrop of Sun
by C. Michael Bailey
L´Tanya Mari´ could not help but be so profoundly affected by music, considering her native Philadelphia. After a well-rounded jazz education, including the tutelage of Grady Tate, and establishment as an educator, Mari´ releases her debut, A Teardrop of Sun. Mari´ enters an already crowded market, one populated with as many difference singing styles and accompaniment ...
Diana Krall: Quiet Nights
by C. Michael Bailey
The origin of the phrase Bossa Nova is as complex as the Brazilian culture from which the music sprung in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nominally translated into “Our New Thing," Bossa Nova was developed by Brazilian composers Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto, and is characterized by a samba rhythm with ...
Bob Sneider-Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Nocturne for Ava
by C. Michael Bailey
In 2006, guitarist Bob Sneider and vibraphonist Joe Locke assembled a collective devoted to the jazz soundtrack of noir fiction called The Film Noir Project. That same year they released Fallen Angel (Sons of Sound). Switching labels, Sneider and Locke release their second Film Noir Project installment in Nocturne for Ava, honoring the brunette bombshell Ava ...
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