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Lara St. John / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarah Ioannides: Hindson, Corigliano, Liszt/Kennedy/St. John
by C. Michael Bailey
After culminating a ten-year romance with Bach, Canadian violinist Lara St. John has turned her attention to more modern fare. Not content to record another “Tchaik/Sib or Bruch/Mendelssohn," St. John has elected to debut a violin concerto by Australian composer Matthew Hindson, reinterpret John Corigliano's score for The Red Violin (1998) and put on her violin ...
The Dowland Project: Romaria
by C. Michael Bailey
Tenor John Potter, late of the Hilliard Ensemble, formed the Dowland Project in 2003 ostensibly to record the music of Medieval English composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Dowland has several modern benefactors, including Paul O'Dette, Jakob Lindberg and Nigel North. These artists have concentrated on the letter of Dowland, making faithful reproductions of his music with sensitivity ...
Paulette Dozier: Over & Over Again
by C. Michael Bailey
Right out of the gate the listener will know that singer Paulette Dozier is an entertainer. The fact can readily be heard in her perfectly balanced alto, a voice crisp and confident, a voice that serves her well. The second thing the listener will note is Dozier employs a crack band and arranger in pianist Mike ...
The Rave Tesar Trio: You Decide
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz is music of inherent high quality. Like sex and pizza, even the worst one experiences is still pretty good. This is why the jazz audience has such a high tolerance for trio recordings. The vast majority are very good, while not being great. This trio tachyphylaxis makes it difficult for the erstwhile trio leader to ...
Bill Stewart, Stanton Moore, Tobias Gebb: A Trio of Drum Trios
by C. Michael Bailey
Drum trios? Drum trios and not piano trios or guitar trios? The three releases considered here are by drummer-led trios. They offer vastly differing approaches to performing both standards and original compositions. Bill Stewart, Stanton Moore, and Tobias Gebb all aim to accomplish the same goal--making music--but that is where the similarity ends. Bill ...
The Ellis Marsalis Quartet: An Open Letter to Thelonious
by C. Michael Bailey
Thelonious Monk is jazz's biggest enigma. Called the “high priest of bebop," the jazz Monk composed and performed was anything but. Technically, Monk's time and tempo were impressive, but he was no dazzling speed wizard like Bud Powell or arpeggio painter like Art Tatum. He didn't compose bebop, but bebop leaders recorded his compositions. What Monk ...
The Latin Tinge: Small Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
The article The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style looked at a spate of big band releases featuring Latin influenced jazz. An equally large spate of small band recordings devoted to Latin jazz has also been released. The two bodies of work are vibrant evidence that the Latin assimilation of jazz is one of the most fortuitous ...
Connie Evingson: Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg
by C. Michael Bailey
The late Tip O'Neill once said, .."All politics is local." This certainly can be said for jazz also. All of America's metropolitan areas have a jazz contingency. Chicago has Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber, and Von Freeman; Washington DC has Buck Hill; and New York has who knows how many? The Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul, also has ...
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop
by C. Michael Bailey
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Trade Paperback; 161 pages ISBN: 9780253219527 Indiana University Press 2008 It would not be too far fetched to claim that trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was and remains the single most important figure in ...
The Latin Tinge: Big Band Style
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz is a unique gift the United States has given the world and the world has shown its gratitude. In its Nordic big bands and Italian small combos; in Swiss and German record labels, which have made sound recording an art form; in France and the Netherlands, two countries that have welcomed African-American expatriates and enabled ...
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