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Alison Brown: The Company You Keep
by C. Michael Bailey
The discovery of a previously unknown species is a watershed event in the biological sciences. The discovery (or recognition) of the same in music is an equal watershed. Banjoist Alison Brown's The Company You Keep marks such a musical event. Music that stubbornly defies categorization is rare indeed and Brown's tenth release (the sixth on her ...
Sarah DeLeo: I'm In Heaven Tonight
by C. Michael Bailey
On The Nearness of You (Self Produced, 2006), vocalist Sarah DeLeo exhibited her diaphanous, spherical voice on a collection of off-the-beaten path standards, all well suited to her most welcome, conservative vocal style. She does not veer far from this approach on I'm In Heaven Tonight, again choosing songs that have not been thoroughly ...
The Avery Sharpe Trio: Autumn Moonlight
by C. Michael Bailey
The Avery Sharpe Trio makes a sharp dressed brand of jazz. At once intelligent and immediate, the eleven songs that make up Autumn Moonlight are splendid fuel for Sharpe's crack piano trio with exceptional pianist Onaje Allen Gumbs and drummer Winard Harper, who collectively raise the art of the trio to a level where the concert ...
Hal Schaefer: How Do You Like This Piano Playing?
by C. Michael Bailey
Hal Schaefer is a Hollywood musician jack-of-all-trades, at one time or another serving as a pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor. He got his professional start in the big bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Carter, and Harry James. However, Schaefer kept the doors open by serving as a vocal coach to celebrities otherwise not singers, including ...
The John Temmerman Quartet: Live in Evanston: John's Mixed Bag
by C. Michael Bailey
Let's hear it for the mainstream, grassroots jazz with a day job! Current Skokie, Illinois native John Temmerman was who Tip O'Neill might have been thinking of when he opined that “all politics [and everything else] is local." The saxophonist's live recording, Live in Evanston: John's Mixed Bag, is an affair local to his Skokie home. ...
Origin Classical: from Seventeenth Century lutes to Berio on morphine
by C. Michael Bailey
The Seattle-based record label Origin is making its bid to become the American ECM (or Winter and Winter), dividing the label's efforts between refined, eclectic jazz and edgy, progressive classical composition and performance. Origin's jazz roster is well known while Origin Classical is a more recent phenomenon. Two Origin Classical recordings illustrate the the polar nature ...
The Beethoven Piano Sonata Series: Idil Biret and Andras Schiff - Sonatas 1, 2, 19, 20
by C. Michael Bailey
Turkish pianist Idil Biret (b. 1941) has been a household name at a number of record labels, most notably EMI and Naxos. A student of Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, Biret is steeped in the Romantic piano tradition, being known particularly for her Chopin and Brahms. She has recently formed the Idil Biret Archives (IBA) to ...
The Tierney Sutton Band: Desire
by C. Michael Bailey
Dark chocolate is a beautifully nefarious romantic ideal. Rather than possessing the youthful sweetness of milk chocolate, it instead offers a libertine bitterness, a taste that must be acquired to appreciate but once acquired, no other taste can sate. Having to learn to like something so that knowledge will bring added pleasure is an adult concept, ...
Martin Frost / Goteborgs Symfoniker / Okko Kamu: Crusell: The Three Clarinet Concertos
by C. Michael Bailey
Clarinetists do not have an endless library of texts from which to choose the next project. The best typically cycle through the best of the repertoire (at least from the Eighteenth Century): Mozart, Stamitz (both Carl and Johann), Spore, Krommer, Stadler, Pleylel, and Weber. All eventually stop and take from the creative waters at the shrine ...
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Tanu Kaljuste conductor: Arvo Part: In Principio
by C. Michael Bailey
Estonian composer Arvo Part (b. 1935) is the Dean of Choral Music composition, specifically that for the Orthodox Church. Any release of recently composed Part music is an occasion. Add the spacious sonics ECM provides recordings of his compositions and it's a true event. Release of In Principio marks the 25th anniversary of Arvo Part's inauguration ...
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