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Nancy King with Fred Hersch: Live At Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Nancy King is a jazz vocalist who swings for the fences. An all-out scat master, King possesses all of the elasticity of Betty Carter and all of the panache and control of Ella Fitzgerald. Fred Hersch is a pianist's pianist, the finest ballad-oriented player to emerge from the long shadow of Bill Evans. It's a bit ...
Karrin Allyson: Footprints
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson has one peer: Cassandra Wilson. Both women have impacted jazz vocals in the last decade, swerving the genre into interesting places. Allyson's most critically acclaimed release, Ballads (Concord, 2001), came after the release of six solid, if less received, releases for the label. This concept recording gave way to forays into sleek ...
Mark Kleinhaut Trio with Bobby Watson: A Balance of Light
by C. Michael Bailey
Mark Kleinhaut's previous trio recording, Chasing Tales (Invisible Music, 2002), employed trumpeter Tiger Okoshi to great effect. The guitarist follows it up with alto saxophonist Bobby Watson on A Balance of Light. Kleinhaut's taut trio serves as a perfect foil to the sleek Watson as the group navigates eight of Kleinhaut's original compositions. The ...
Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann: Fumio Yasuda and Theo Bleckmann: Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne
by C. Michael Bailey
This whimsical sound trip to the heyday of Las Vegas celebrates the city's one hundredth anniversary. German-born and New York-based singer Theo Bleckmann and Japanese pianist/arranger/composer Fumio Yasuda unite with Bernd Ruf and the Kammerorchester Basel to transform carefully chosen selections from the American Songbook into a soundtrack for celebrating the rich decadence and unbridled hedonism ...
The Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005
by C. Michael Bailey
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 JT Leroy, Guest Editor; Paul Bresnick, Series Editor Trade Paperback; 202 pages ISBN: 139780306814464 Da Capo Press 2006 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill, But of ...
Isaac Hayes & John Fogerty: The Progeny of Concord-Fantasy
by C. Michael Bailey
The union between Concord and Fantasy Records (and now also Telarc) that resulted in the conglomerate Concord Music Group has already spawned progeny worthy of discussion. Compilations of older material are the bread and butter of vaults as large as the record companies living under the Concord corporate tent. Here are two of the most notable ...
Cassandra Wilson: Thunderbird
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson reached the fulcrum of her career with the refreshingly organic Blue Light 'Til Dawn. Her releases before this 1993 Blue Note debut, including M-Base Collective collaborations in the 1980s, were warmly received if not completely inspired. With Blue Light, Wilson changed her creative paradigm, performing older and more eclectic music in a ...
Two Roads Diverged
by C. Michael Bailey
Like The Da Vinci Code and any Umberto Eco book, jazz and classical music are about esoterica. They are Gnostic arts, with hidden meanings and treasures revealed over a lifetime, renewing themselves and their meaningfulness with every listening. The sound sorcerer Manfred Eicher spins alchemical magic from both musical loams on his Edition of Contemporary Music ...
Mulatos Squared
by C. Michael Bailey
Omar Sosa is the most original Afro-Cuban jazz artist since Juan Tizol. He has produced an impressive string of recordings that include Prietos, Sentir, Pictures of Soul, Ayaguna, Alertoric EFX: Live Solo Concert - Radio Bremen and Ballads. Sosa's most commercially and critically successful recording to date is Mulatos, which was nominated for a Grammy Award ...
Dr. John: Right Place Right Time: Live at Tipitina
by C. Michael Bailey
Dr. John at Tipitina's on Mardi Gras, God's in his heaven, and all's right with the world. Right Place Right Time is the second of the projected Rebennack Chronicles, live recordings culled from Dr. John's extensive private collection by uber-producer Joel Dorn. The first release was the exquisite All By Hisself, a 1986 solo outing that ...
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