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Elliott Sharp: Secret Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp expresses music through his own personal filter. He does this in the postmodern spirit: instead of assembling a collection of musical ideals, he adopts musical ideas rooted in the reaction to the restrictions and limitations of those musical ideals. In some highbrow sense that may describe what Ornette Coleman and late John Coltrane ...
Anne Kerry Ford: Weill
by C. Michael Bailey
Kurt Weill (1900-50) was the consummate crossover composer. Born in Dessau, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1933 prior to the antisemitic National Socialist wave during the period. Primarily a composer for the stage, Weill worked with such disparate talents as Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera, 1928) and Langston Hughes (Street Scene, 1947). Louis ...
Patti Wicks Trio: The Italian Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Patti Wicks represents the historical apex of female jazz pianists/vocalists, with Nina Simone and Shirley Horn on one side and Patricia Barber and Dena DeRose on the other. Wicks has loads of talent and the unique ability to take the simplest cocktail jazz trifle and make it sound like Shakespeare. Her previous recordings, Room at the ...
The Tierney Sutton Band: On the Other Side
by C. Michael Bailey
Tierney Sutton is both an evolutionary and a revolutionary talent. She has become known for her carefully crafted concept or thematic recordings that include her tribute to artists deserving more attention (Unsung Heroes), her tribute to Bill Evans (Blue in Green), her nod to quasi-jazz singers (Something Cool), her tribute to Frank Sinatra (Dancing in the ...
Tony DeSare: Last First Kiss
by C. Michael Bailey
Harry Connick, Jr., John Pizzarelli, Peter Cincotti, and now, Tony DeSare: this quartet represents the cream of mainstream male jazz vocalists. The Frank Sinatra angle would not be inappropriate, but all of the above are expert on instruments second to their voices. Tony DeSare, the freshman of this class, slipped onto the scene with 2005's Want ...
Craig Buhler: Capistrano Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
A blind spin of The Capistrano Sessions immediately evokes the recordings Shorty Rogers made in the 1950s. The sound, the swing, the je ne sais quoi is a vintage West Coast jazz vibe. One of the hallmarks of the West Coast sound is the facile ability for small combos to sound like a much larger band. ...
Rebecca Parris: You Don't Know Me
by C. Michael Bailey
Should you peruse Boston-based jazz vocalist Rebecca Parris's website, you're treated to photographs of Parris with some notable jazz artists, including Carol Sloane, Carmen McRae and Shirley Horn. If you glance at the links page, you'll note Parris's obvious friendship with the likes of the great Nancy King and Patti Wicks. It is in this heady ...
At Schumann
by C. Michael Bailey
The German jazz label Winter & Winter is divided into several Editions, each addressing a different aspect of music. One is AudioFilm. The label's website brags that this is “cinema for closed eyes, adding “AudioFilms are musical essays about a whore house in Paris, the sidewalks of New York, the journey with the Orient Express, the ...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
by C. Michael Bailey
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 Mary Gaitskill, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor Trade Paperback; 329 pages ISBN: 0306814994 Da Capo Press 2006 Da Capo Best Music Writing turns six this year with a new series editor, Daphne Carr. Carr is a music journalist, critic, ...
Zoho Music: Latin Jazz, New York City Style
by C. Michael Bailey
Zoho Music has established itself as the pre-eminent purveyor of Latin jazz. Resurrected from the ashes of the former Khaeon label by Jochen Becker, Zoho boasts a stable of renowned and diverse musicians. Here are three of the best recordings recently released by the label. Ray Barretto Standards Rican-ditioned ...
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