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Jacques Loussier Trio: Mozart Piano Concertos 20/23
by C. Michael Bailey
Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his attention to Mozart's 250th birthday. For this celebration, Loussier ambitiously chooses the Piano Concertos in D minor (No. 20, K.466) and A major (No. 23, K. 488) for a ...
Red Garland: Red Garland
by C. Michael Bailey
Red Garland (1923-84) is often critically dismissed a cocktail pianist only worthy of tinkling in the background of a lounge, but his depth as a musician is much deeper than that. A member of the first classic Miles Davis Quintet (with John Coltrane), Garland won favor with the bandleader for the way he used musical space, ...
Rudy Van Gelder Views Two Tenor Titans
by C. Michael Bailey
Rudy Van Gelder has had perhaps the greatest personal impact on jazz of anyone associated with the music without having blown a note himself. Van Gelder served as engineer on essentially all of the recordings made for Blue Note between 1953 and 1967. His engineering work did not stop with Blue Note. Van Gelder was sonically ...
Ray Charles 1930-2004: The Movie Ray, Part 4 of 4
by C. Michael Bailey
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Ray Bristol Bay Productions / Universal Pictures DVD release: 2005 The film Ray was released in 2004, shortly after the death of its subject, Ray Charles. Directed by Taylor Hackford, the movie was a fifteen-year labor of love that ...
The Little Willies: The Little Willies
by C. Michael Bailey
It was only a matter of time before Norah Jones would give into her country music jones and deliver the goods. The Little Willies is Jones' first project since the comfortable Feels Like Home (Blue Note, 2004). She takes members of her Handsome Band and mixes them with some additional New York City-based musicians, including singer-songwriter ...
Skip Heller: Liberal Dose: Live at the Flying Monkey, Huntsville, AL
by C. Michael Bailey
A polymath is a person of great and varied learning. The German writer Goethe was a polymath; his IQ has been estimated at 210, which would have been the highest ever recorded. Fred Steven “Skip Heller is also a polymath. Musically omnivorous and pan-culturally aware, Skip Heller speaks with equal authority and enthusiasm on ...
Erin Bode: Over and Over
by C. Michael Bailey
Erin Bode is a sorceress of female jazz vocals. On her first recording, Don't Take Your Time (MaxJazz, 2003), the singer spun the threads of Karrin Allyson and Norah Jones with her own Midwestern personality to create a hip synthesis of pop cum jazz songs, serrated with the ragged edge of Cassandra Wilson. Erin ...
Anita O'Day: Indestructible!
by C. Michael Bailey
Writer's Note: This is not the original article I submitted for publication. That article lacked a critical compass. I have taken advantage of the Internet and recast my opinions more thoughtfully. I have revised the article to better reflect my active rather than reactive feelings toward Indestructible!. After all, Anita O'Day is a National ...
Red Garland Trio At The Prelude
by C. Michael Bailey
Red Garland Red Garland Trio At The Prelude (Complete) Prestige Records 1959/2006 Following the success of Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 (Riverside 3RCD-4443-2, 2005) the Concord Music Group has slated for release several historically complete thematic sets. Among these is The Red Garland Trio At The Prelude. ...
WAM at 250
by C. Michael Bailey
Dateline: February 27, 2006, Little Rock, Arkansas. No, not WHAM!, the 1980s boy duo of George Michael and what's-his-name. WAM! - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and today is his 250th birthday. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756; his full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart. The composer was baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus ...
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