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Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2

by C. Michael Bailey
October 30, 2008

Bill Cunliffe The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2 Resonance Records 2008Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million ...

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Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58

by C. Michael Bailey
October 23, 2008

Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58 Jazz Icons 2008Jazz ambassadors are hard to come by. The first was Louis Armstrong, whose personality was so big and warm it couldn't help spilling out on everyone close to him. Then there was Dizzy Gillespie, the ...

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Jazz Icons: Rahsaan Roland Kirk Live in '63 and '67

by C. Michael Bailey
October 22, 2008

Jazz Icons: Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in '63 and '67Jazz Icons2008In her forward to the Jazz Icons Series 3: Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in '63 and '67, Dorthann Kirk praised the DVD for showing her husband's talent “as a complete musician and not just a musical freak who played three ...

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Chet Baker with the Bradley Young Trio: Chet in Chicago

by C. Michael Bailey
October 16, 2008

Chet Baker with the Bradley Young Trio Chet in Chicago Enja Records 2008What is the cultural value of trumpeter Chet Baker 20 years after his death in Amsterdam? An interesting rift between biographers has emerged, the schism running along the interface of Baker's substance abuse and the art ...

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Jazz Icons: Bill Evans Live '64 - '75

by C. Michael Bailey
October 12, 2008

Bill Evans Jazz Icons Series 3: Bill Evans Live '64 - '75 Jazz Icons 2008 A dweeb with a bad haircut or junkie messiah? The most significant jazz pianist since Bud Powell or an over-rated ivory noodler? Bill Evans is a delicious musical enigma whose ...

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Corey Christiansen: Roll With It

Read "Roll With It" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 5, 2008

If jazz is America's soundtrack, periodically updated by tonal seismic shifts, then Corey Christiansen's third release, Roll With It, is one such shift. Imagine a Grant Green-Jimmy Smith-Stanley Turrentine 1960s triumvirate (had one existed) buffed to an early 21st Century digital sheen, greasy easy on the pork fat, hard on the omega-3s and what ...

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Jazz Icons Series 3: Cannonball Adderley Live in '63

by C. Michael Bailey
October 3, 2008

Cannonball AdderleyCannonball Adderley Live in '63Jazz Icons2008 What is the greatest hard bop jazz standard? Some might argue for Bobby Timmons' “Moanin'" as performed by the composer and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Others may hold out for Joe Zawinul's “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" or Richard Carpenter's “Walkin'" ...

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Ignaz Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos 1 and 2; Sinfonia Concertante

by C. Michael Bailey
September 27, 2008

Dieter Klocker, Sandra Arnold, Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Sebastian Tewinkel Ignaz Pleyel: Clarinet Concertos 1 and 2; Sinfonia Concertante CPO 2008 The clarinet did not arrive fully formed in the hands of Alcide Nunez, Larry Shields, and Johnny Dodds for them to provide a schizophrenic counterpoint ...

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David Sherr and the Bel Air Jazz Ensemble: Otherworld Music

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by C. Michael Bailey
September 24, 2008

California saxophonist and composer David Sherr's music is like the meal one receives at that well conceived multi-ethnic restaurant. It delights with such unexpected entree combinations that work so well together, the patrons must reconsider their idea of what is good. I suspect that this is the intention of all art-on-the-edge. David Sherr's previous release, the ...

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Jazz Icons Series 3: Sonny Rollins '65 and '68

by C. Michael Bailey
September 23, 2008

Sonny Rollins Jazz Icons Series 3: Sonny Rollins '65 and '68 Jazz Icons 2008 Sonny Rollins '65 and '68 inaugurates the Jazz Icons Series 3. Previously reviewed among these electrons was Jazz Icons Series 2. Along with Series 1, these three DVD sets comprise an important multimedia library ...