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By Arrangement Only: Bob Mintzer, Chuck Bergeron, Carl Saunders & Doug Hamilton
by C. Michael Bailey
The flip side of big band science, the counter dimension to swing, is arrangement. Once the seed of an idea has arrived, the melodies conceived, and the notes put into order, the music opens itself up to further organization. This is the art of the arranger. While not scientific, the observation that as the intensity of ...
Swing, Swing, Swing: Gary Tole, Phil Norman, Gene Ludwig & Bill Warfield, Cy Touff & Sandy Mosse
by C. Michael Bailey
The word swing means two things when discussing big band jazz. It refers to the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, when big band swing music was the popular music of the day. It also refers to that unique rhythmic result of well played jazz, a quality defying meaningful definition but something avid listeners recognise ...
Carla Bley Big Band: Appearing Nightly
by C. Michael Bailey
Carla Bley Big Band Appearing Nightly WATT 2008 Bandleader and musical provocateur Carla Bley is the Hector Berlioz of jazz. Her command of her large ensembles is complete and potent. Her composition, arrangement, and adaptation are intelligent with a sophisticated sense of humor. A superb pianist, Bley's true ...
The Uri Caine Ensemble: The Othello Syndrome
by C. Michael Bailey
Uri Caine, in his own unique way, surveyed music from the Classical era with The Classical Variations (Winter & Winter, 2008) and The Plays Mozart (Winter & Winter, 2007). Caine moves both forward to Late Romantic Opera and back, picking up from Wagner in Venezia (Winter & Winter, 1997), with The Othello Syndrome. The disc title ...
Donny McCaslin Trio: Recommended Tools
by C. Michael Bailey
Tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin debuts on Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label with Recommended Tools. McCaslin shows his world-class cojones by heading a tenor trio with bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Jonathan Blake. The recording is produced by David Binney, no saxophone slouch himself, and executive produced by Douglas, who asked McCaslin to “write and record the ...
Join The Band
by C. Michael Bailey
The album title Join The Band derives from an entrance processional Little Feat sang a cappella when taking the stage during those high holy days with guitarist Lowell George. A rendition may be heard opening the band's famous live recording, Waiting For Columbus (Warner Bros, 1978). Lowell, of course, passed in 1979. Thirty years ...
There Would be No Jazz without Louis Moreau Gottschalk
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz as an American artform would never have evolved without Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A phenomenon in his lifetime but relegated to the status of parlor pianist today, Gottschalk nevertheless was the complete package: talented, good looking, highborn. Educated at the Paris Conservatoire and a peer of Fredrick Chopin, Gottschalk carved an impressive pedigree when he hit ...
David Sanborn: Here & Gone
by C. Michael Bailey
It would not be hard to accuse Here & Gone of being commercially contrived. The disk features a 'prominent musician' playing duets with other prominent musicians. This is not exactly a new formula, but considering that the 'prominent musician' in question is David Sanborn--and that he duets with the likes of Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, and ...
Roy Hargrove: Earfood
by C. Michael Bailey
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove emerged into jazz consciousness as one of the “young lions" who beamed into the late 1980s and early 1990s. Other notable contemporary trumpeters include Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Kermit Ruffins, and Wallace Roney. All are associated with different genre traditions, Hargrove's being most closely associated with Lee Morgan.Hargrove's association with Morgan's ...
Tuba Jazz: Jim Shearer and Jim Self
by C. Michael Bailey
The tuba in jazz is like the appendix. It is an evolutionary artifact that once played an integral role in the operation of the jazz orchestra but has largely fallen into disuse in favor of other instruments. Sure, it has surfaced at one time or another since the New Orleans days. Claude Thornhill employed one in ...
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