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C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2007
by C. Michael Bailey
Again this year I am going to devote my attention to two classes of recordings deserving inclusion on my end-of-the-year, best-of list: new and re-released (or previously unreleased) recordings I personally reviewed, and others I missed or which were reviewed better by my colleagues at All About Jazz. Additionally, in keeping with last year, I am ...
Jon Mayer: So Many Stars
by C. Michael Bailey
The craft of the jazz piano trio is a challenging one; and in a sea of fine trio recordings, it is hard to come by a performance that is just not merely good, as most are, but sublime. When one comes along; it is time to be excited, and So Many Stars is the one to ...
Dave Brubeck: Indian Summer
by C. Michael Bailey
There are several similarities when listening to Dave Brubeck's Indian Summer and Andras Schiff's survey of Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas (ECM New Series, 2005). Both pianists are well into their respective careers, Brubeck being the elder jazz statesman for sure, but Schiff has managed in his brief fifty-plus years to accumulate an impressive classical repertoire and ...
Andy Bey: Ain't Necessarily So
by C. Michael Bailey
Andy Bey is the finest male jazz vocalist performing today. This may stick a finger in the eye of such talent as Kurt Elling or Mark Murphy, both contemporaries chronologically opposed; but both of these artists readily acknowledge the immense talent of Bey. He is no young lion exploding out of the ...
Russell Malone: Live at The Jazz Standard, Volume Two
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz was meant to be recorded live on the bandstand. It is spontaneous music ruled by improvisation and invention in real time. There exist precious few bad live jazz recordings. This is a ready indication of the high quality of musicianship jazz requires for proper performance and the necessity of said jazz musicians to think quickly ...
Mark Isaacs: Resurgence
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist and composer Mark Isaacs has done more than most any other jazz musician to seal the fault line between serious modern jazz improvisation and “contemporary jazz or “adult oriented jazz. I tend to classify the former as the jazz father's and earlier genre traditionalists (bebop, hard bop, modal) and the latter as well-behaved, unobtrusive ...
Jeremy Pelt and Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke
by C. Michael Bailey
Imagine a sacred Shinto sand garden beautifully divided up into all of the genres of jazz, rock, and blues. Interconnections between the genres and subgenres are carefully documented, after having been fully researched and verified. Now visualize trumpeter Jeremy Pelt dragging his horn through this garden, marginally alongside a similar set of tracks left by Miles ...
Challenge Gets the Mainstream Groove: Harry Allen & The Pizzarelli Boys
by C. Michael Bailey
Challenge Records put their corporate foot down and said, “Enough of this noisy progressive jazz. Let's have the real thing. Echoing the immortal words of jazz writer Martin Williams in the title of his book Where's The Melody? (Minerva, 1966), Challenge is, er, challenging labels like Arbors Jazz and Nagel-Heyer in their own “classic jazz backyards--with ...
The Blues of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
by C. Michael Bailey
The Blues of Clarence “Gatemouth" Brown Storyville Films Blues Legends 2007 What a DVD of a 1984 Clarence “Gatemouth Brown concert proves is how timeless, ageless, and transcendent both this artist and his craft are. Brown's final recordings, mere months before his death from lung cancer in September 2005, ...
ECM Bass Summit: Eberhard Weber & Miroslav Vitous
by C. Michael Bailey
It is considered bad critical form to focus on a particular record label in a review, but it is difficult to discuss ECM artists and the “ECM sound without mentioning ECM and its svengali, Manfred Eicher. No recording company since Blue Note in the 1950s and 1960s can boast as distinctive a sound and eclectic a ...
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