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Justin Marcus: Ask Me How Do I Feel
by C. Michael Bailey
Justin Marcus will not be the next Michael Bublé and that is a damn good thing. Marcus is a refreshingly non-vocalist vocalist. His voice is no Sinatra knock-off, nor does it fall into the Tony DeSare-Peter Cincotti mold, though with these and Harry Connick, Marcus shares movie-star looks. Marcus has a singularly masculine voice with just ...
Boots Randolph: A Whole New Ballgame
by C. Michael Bailey
Homer Louis Randolph III was born in Paducah, Kentucky in 1927. He has recorded widely since the 1950s, providing his unique Southern tenor saxophone sound on recordings as varied as Roy Orbison ("Oh, Pretty Woman ), REO Speedwagon's cover of Chuck Berry's ("Little Queenie"), Al Hirt("Java"), Jerry Lee Lewis ( “Turn On Your Lovelight") and Brenda ...
Bob Florence and Scott Whitfield: A Bigger Sound
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Bob Florence and trombonist Scott Whitfield have a history. Besides both recording for Summit Records, the two artists regularly play on each other's recordings. Hear what real cooperation sounds like. The Bob Florence Limited Edition Eternal Licks And Grooves Summit Records 2007 Bob Florence can build ...
Frank Morgan: Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3
by C. Michael Bailey
Frank Morgan's 2003 engagement at New York's Jazz Standard has been a fruitful performance for the 73-year-old alto saxophonist, yielding City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 1, Raising the Standard: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 2 and now Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard, Volume 3. The jazz recorded on ...
Art Pepper: Two Previously Unreleased and Outstanding Albums
by C. Michael Bailey
Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr. (1925 -1982) desired the title of “greatest alto saxophonist in the world." Such an ambition might be considered by the uninitiated to have been either naive or intensely egocentric, for Pepper's contemporaries on the axe included Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges and Paul Desmond. But Pepper had more staying power than any of ...
Hector Martignon: Refugee
by C. Michael Bailey
Native Columbian Pianist Hector Martignon closes his liner notes to Refugee thusly: “Although I play the acoustic and electric pianos in all tunes...I prefer the role I almost instinctively adopted, paraphrasing Auguste Rodin: provide boulders of marble of distinctive shapes and sizes to a group of sculptors and then collectively carve out the most beautiful shapes ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
by C. Michael Bailey
The importance of saxophonist Michael Brecker's final recording, Pilgrimage, is densely multidimensional. The romantically inclined will attach significance to the fact that the nine compositions were conceived and recorded while Brecker was aware of the gravity of his final illness. Pilgrimage falls into an artistic/musical category that includes such disparate music as Mozart's Requiem, Puccini's Turandot, ...
Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Live in Japan
by C. Michael Bailey
I suspect that at least a gazillion electrons have been sacrificed to the obvious influence that Bill Evans had on Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi...and I am going to offer up a few million more. Pieranunzi is well-studied in the Evans musical method, even establishing a temporal connection to Evans through bassist Marc Johnson, who performed with ...
Giovanni Falzone: Meeting in Paris
by C. Michael Bailey
An old saw goes that America's greatest gift to the world was jazz. One of the most creative recipients of this gift has been Italy, who has produced artists like Massimo Urbani, Giovanni Tommaso, Enrico Rava, Mario Schiano, Fabio Morgera, and Enrico Pieranunzi. Added to this distinguished list is the young trumpeter, Giovanni Falzone, whose approach ...
Various Artists: Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
by C. Michael Bailey
Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records in 1957 and was joined by his sister Estelle Axton a year later, changing the label name to Stax (from the morpheme formed by Jim STewart and Estelle AXton) in 1961. Between 1961 and the label's agonizing demise in 1976, Stax released Southern soul classics that included the singles “Soul Man ...
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