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Dena DeRose: Live at The Jazz Standard, Volume One
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist/vocalist Dena DeRose debuted on MaxJazz in 2005 with her well received A Walk in the Park. Now the label has put her into an appropriate live setting in New York City's Jazz Standard with bassist Martin Wind, uber-drummer Matt Wilson (both on A Walk in the Park), and NYC mainstay saxophonist Joel Frahm blowing through ...
Ken Serio: Live...In the Moment
by C. Michael Bailey
Drummer Ken Serio has been skirting the indie environs for a number of years, scoring impressive dates with Ronnie Earl, Calvin Hill, Ken Wessell, Virginia Mayhew, and Vic Juris, the latter of whom joins Serio on his live outing Live...In the Moment. Live ... in the Moment represents the essence of jazz: four musicians ...
Linda Dachtyl: For Hep Cats
by C. Michael Bailey
Linda Dauwalder-Dachtyl was introduced to organ jazz community by Tony Monaco with her LDB3 and Friends (Chicken Coop, 2006), a durable and well-received debut. Dachtyl is back with a blues-infused collection that samples Ray Charles, Howlin' Wolf, and Thelonious Monk. Dachtyl's core trio includes guitarist Robert Kraut (also associated with Monaco) and husband/drummer Cary Dachtyl. When ...
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Setting Standards: New York Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Setting Standards is a clever repackaging of three Keith Jarrett Standards Trio releases: Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM, 1985), Standards, Vol. 2 (ECM, 1985) and Changes (ECM 1984). These releases were the ostensible ground zero for what would go on to be the pianist's Standards Trio for the next twenty-five years. This limited release box ...
Jack Sheldon and the California Cool Quartet: It's What I Do
by C. Michael Bailey
If West Coast jazz has a tone, it is dry ice cool. Trumpeter, vocalist and actor Jack Sheldon, the entertainment triple threat, played a big part in forging this tone in the period following Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool (Blue Note, 1949). That recording was the shot over the bow of bebop that gave rise ...
Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by C. Michael Bailey
Marc Copland is part of a group of jazz pianists extending the language of Bill Evans and, in doing so, is creating a new abstract face of jazz pianism. If jazz piano could be coaxed to be more thoughtful and introspective, it would spontaneously morph from aural to visual art and would manifest as a Monet ...
Maceo Parker: Roots & Grooves
by C. Michael Bailey
Maceo Parker Roots & Grooves Heads Up International 2007 In jazz, the term “swing" is used to describe that special “thing" that makes jazz jazz. Elusive to definition, swing may best be thought of as that physical propulsion providing the music momentum from one bar to the ...
Christmas 2007: 1. In nomine Patris... The Past
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3It was again a stingy market for jazz holiday fare. Sad, as there exist many artists we have yet to hear from. In the face of such fiscal and corporate adversity, this intrepid writer has nevertheless found several notable releases and added some old ones as reminders ...
Christmas 2007: 2. ...et Filii... The Present
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Following Christmas 2007: 1. In nomine Patris... The Past and keeping with this year's theme, the next batch of holiday discs represent the present. That is, Christmas fare appealing to the baby boomers. Again, the pickings are slim and there may be a stretch here, but ...
Christmas 2007: 3. ...et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. The Future
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This is the conclusion of our trinity of Christmas 2007 holiday articles, tying up the previously noted : 1. In nomine Patris... The Past and 2. ...et Filii... The Present These recordings take the holiday celebration to the edge, being at once quirky, inventive, and the ...
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