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Jimmy Hall & The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Collective: Build Your Own Fire
by C. Michael Bailey
Singer/harmonicist Jimmy Hall's Build Your Own Fire is the third in Zoho Music's Roots series, joining Bonnie Bramlett's Roots, Blues, and Jazz and Ike Turner's Risin' With the Blues. These first two releases have been enthusiastically received, encouraging label founder Joachim Becker to expand the scope of his “Latin Music with a New York Vibe. This ...
John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
by C. Michael Bailey
There is a continuum in jazz, as in most music genera, which extends from the most rigidly defined and precisely contained performance to the antithetically free and fully open recital. To offer examples of the former, one might consider swing era big band music of the Glenn Miller ilk. The latter is embodied in John Coltrane's ...
Jazz At The Philharmonic: Switzerland, 1953
by C. Michael Bailey
Before the star-studded jam sessions of the 1970s Montreux Jazz Festivals there were the pioneering Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) road shows, which toured from 1946 into the 1960s and put onstage together many of the greatest mainstream and modern stars of their times. Both Montreux and JATP were the brainchildren of Norman Granz, the jazz ...
Bianca Pittoors: Bianca 8
by C. Michael Bailey
Winnipeg, Canada-born, Ottawa, Canada-based Bianca Pittoors is a French-Canadian from a musical family who specializes in jazz standards and what she calls “retro jazz. On her new, self-produced disc Bianca 8, she is backed by a capable piano quintet that includes a percussionist. While the lion's share of the recording is Latin tinged, the disc is ...
Wayne Escoffery: Veneration: Live at Smoke
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become a hot commodity as of late. Besides his two previous, well-received recordings, Intuition and Times Change, he has also appeared on Wycliffe Gordon and Jay Leonhart's This Rhythm on My Mind and Eric Reed's Happiness, among several other recordings. What emerges on Veneration, Escoffery's new live disc recorded at the New ...
Pino Forastiere: Circolare
by C. Michael Bailey
Circolare is no more jazz than Leo Kottke or the late Michael Hedges. But that is no matter. Pino Forastiere is a guitarist of expansive talent, both in composition and performance. He employs complex tuning paradigms and plays this a combination of plucking and fret-board hammering that reflects a synthesis of Kottke, Hedges, Eddie Van Halen ...
David Binney and Edward Simon: Further Explorations
by C. Michael Bailey
David Binney and Edward Simon have been very busy men. Their names are splashed copiously within these pages, both separately and together. Separately and most recently, Binney, a multi-reedist who concentrates on alto saxophone, released Cities and Desires, and pianist Simon Unicity. Together, the two musicians have a history beginning with Red Records' 2005 release Afinadad. ...
John Cipolla and Doc Livingston: Misbehavin
by C. Michael Bailey
Listeners entertained by the Buddy DeFranco/Dave McKenna Concord recordings, You Must Believe in Swing (1997) and Do Nothing Till You Hear From Us! (1999), will be delighted with John Cipolla and Doc Livingston's Misbehavin'. Cipolla is the erstwhile leader on this duet recital with pianist/clarinetist Doc Livingston at Bowling Green's Western Kentucky University, where Cipolla is ...
Skip Heller's Aural American Landscape
by C. Michael Bailey
A number of years ago, Philadelphia cum Los Angeles guitarist Skip Heller released Homegoing, which included his organ trio treatment of the funeral march from Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Around this same time pianist and fellow Philadelphia-native Uri Caine was having his own jazz considerations on Mahler (Gustav Mahler In Toblach: I Went Out This Morning Over ...
Anita O: Live in Tokyo
by C. Michael Bailey
Inevitable with the upcoming screening of the documentary Anita O'Day The Life of a Jazz Singer at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival is the release of Live in Tokyo '63. This is the soundtrack to a televised concert in Japan during O'Day's fruitful association with Verve records that was to last the decade. This inevitability is ...
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