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Omar Sosa: Live a FIP
by C. Michael Bailey
Omar Sosa is a Caribbean Thelonious Monk. While his compositions lack Monk's cranky angles, Sosa's songs nevertheless challenge and ultimately soothe the listener with their subtle harmonic turns and melodic velocity. Sosa's Monkness is more apparent in his solos, where he combines dissonance with a Don Pullen-like percussive approach. Sosa's beautiful pianism at first seems to ...
Marcus Goldhaber: The Moment After
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Marcus Goldhaber has more in common with John Pizzarelli and John Proulx than Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Goldhaber is part of a group of singers who are more sweet-throated than virile. Their singing style is creamier than the vibrato-less androgyny of Chet Baker and denser in the lower range than Jimmy Scott. All of ...
Three Female Vocalists: Carla White, Amy Banks & Sarah DeLeo
by C. Michael Bailey
Continuing our survey of recently released discs by female jazz vocalists we look at three thoughtfully produced recordings that have something to offer all listeners. Carla White A Voice In The Night Bright Moon Records 2005 Bay area native Carla White earned her jazz bona ...
Anita O: Keep the Coffee Coming
by C. Michael Bailey
Keep the Coffee Coming is a collection of eighteen small, medium and big band recordings fronted by Anita O'Day from 1952 to 1955. This is the period just prior to O'Day's climb toward her zenith with Verve records. During this period, O'Day was recording for the Norman Granz pre-Verve labels Clef and Norgram. It is not ...
John Hollenbeck Jazz Bigband Graz featuring Theo Bleckmann: Joys & Desires
by C. Michael Bailey
This release would look like the dozens of big band recordings that surface every year, except for the small print mentioning Theo Bleckmann. Bleckmann, a fixture in New York City performance art circles, was a conspicuous presence on this year's Winter & Winter recording Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne. Bleckmann isn't singing this ...
Three By Three: The Evolving Art Of The Trio - Brian Schwarz Trio, Three For All, Edward Simon
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz trio is a tradition within a tradition--jazz chamber music, small spaces, intimate places--and it's an evolving tradition. The standard trio is piano, bass and drums, but this has been expanded to include many other instrumental combinations. Here are three recent trio releases spanning standard and not-so-standard line-ups--trumpet-guitar-bass; saxophone-bass-drums; and piano-bass-drums. Brian ...
Johnny Smith with Friends Mark Holzinger and Chris Justin: San Francisco Bay Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
Johnny Smith may not be a musical household name, but his rural Missouri roots and Uncle Delaney and Aunt Bonnie Bramlett gave him some serious soul bona fides. Following a musical youth and a stint in the Marines, Smith returned to his second home of Southern California, skirting big fame, making smart and informed pop music. ...
Jim Black and Axis No Axis: Dogs of Great Indifference
by C. Michael Bailey
Trying to describe the texture of music is a bit of a vulgar theology. But the imperfect metaphor of texture is nevertheless the only way to discuss Jim Black's most recent release with Axis No Axis, Dogs of Great Indifference. It is an electric soundscape one might think of hearing on Hearts of Space. The core ...
Mulgrew Miller: Live At the Kennedy Center, Volume 1
by C. Michael Bailey
The best thing about Live at the Kennedy Center, Volume 1 is that there will be a Volume 2. Mulgrew Miller is a consummate captain of the piano trio and larger ensembles and has released a string of fine recordings on the MaxJazz imprint, including Live At Yoshi's, Volume 1 & Volume 2 and The Sequel. ...
John Proulx: Moon and Sand
by C. Michael Bailey
Los Angeles-native pianist/singer/composer John Proulx possesses the most thrillingly androgynous voice since Chet Baker whispered “My Funny Valentine. The comparison cannot stop there. Both Baker and Proulx nominally hail from the Midwest (Baker from Oklahoma, Proulx from Michigan). Both men sing with a vibrato-less high tenor; and both men gravitated to the same corner of the ...
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