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Alyssa Graham: Echo
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz is a paradox that is both compromising and uncompromising. It is compromising as an assimilating art, one that absorbs all influences that touch it. It is uncompromising that jazz demands virtuosity and creativity. It is this paradox that allows the genre to contain both a Sarah Vaughan and Dianna Krall, and a Grant Green and ...
Domenico Scarlatti: An Introduction to the Keyboard Sonatas
by C. Michael Bailey
Naxos Records began recording the complete keyboard sonatas of Italian Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti at the close of the 1990s, with the release of Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Naxos, 1999). The years since have resulted in 10 more of a projected 35 volumes series. Scarlatti's keyboard music is easily accessible and enjoyable ...
Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute
by C. Michael Bailey
The difference between jazz improvisation and composed variations on a theme is that the former is dynamic, while the latter is static. In jazz, improvisation amounts to “spontaneous composition," where a melodic variation over a harmonic skeleton occurs instantly. Improvisations on a theme in this sense are not written down prior to being played. However, these ...
Vanessa Wagner: Variations
by C. Michael Bailey
As viewed through a jazz prism, what is a variation if not an improvisation written down? A transcription of Coleman Hawkin's famous 1939 recording of “Body and Soul" is no different than Bach's Goldberg Variations or Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. All examples present a theme and then melodic variations over the harmonic structure of the ...
Eteri Andjaparidze: Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1
by C. Michael Bailey
To inaugurate its Complete Keyboard Sonatas by Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti, Naxos chose Tbilisi-native Eteri Andjaparidze. Russian pianists were among the first artists to champion the cause of Scarlatti sonatas performed on piano. Andjaparidze continues in the tradition of Horowitz, Pletnev, and Gilels who are among the better known Russians who favor Scarlatti for ...
Roger Kellaway: Live at the Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist and composer Roger Kellaway exists in that critical interface between little-known but respected session musician and known but unjustly little-recognized master. His recent recordings for IPO--Heroes (2007) and I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook (2005)--were very well received and revealed a professional, journeyman persistence. Kellaway is a national treasure who ...
If I Had a Saxophone: Sonny Fortune, Al Foster, James Moody & Hank Jones, Lee Konitz, and Bob Mover
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophones are ubiquitous in jazz music. That being so, releases spotlighting the instrument each year are legion. Here are five of the finer ones. Sonny Fortune You and the Night and the Music 18th & Vine Records 2008 Can the ancient warhorse “Sweet ...
Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne
by C. Michael Bailey
class="f-left" > Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne EmArcy 2008 Sonny Rollins Live in Vienne provides a good companion DVD to Jazz Icons Series 3: Sonny Rollins '65 and '68. Taken together, the two DVDs juxtapose a 33 and 38 year-old Rollins with a 76 year-old ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Oscar Peterson Live '63, '64 and '65
by C. Michael Bailey
Oscar Peterson Jazz Icons Series 3: Live '63, '64 and '65 Jazz Icons 2008 Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) had but one peer on jazz piano, and that was Art Tatum. While greatly influenced by Tatum, Peterson nevertheless developed into the superior blues player of the two. ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Nina Simone Live in '65 and '68
by C. Michael Bailey
Nina SimoneJazz Icons Series 3: Live in '65 and '68 Jazz Icons 2008 Savage Dignity. Nina Simone is singular among jazz musicians. She had a vocal delivery that was more Charlie Patton than, say, Shirley Horn. Her cover of Bob Dylan's “The Ballad of Hollis Brown," presented on ...
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