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Article: Extended Analysis

Alyssa Graham: What Love Is

by C. Michael Bailey
January 22, 2006

Alyssa Graham What Love Is Self Published 2006 Great things often come humbly disguised. While not the perfect metaphor, it comes pretty close to describing vocalist Alyssa Graham's new recording What Love Is. A self-produced effort, and I mean that literally as Miss Graham and her ensemble recorded these 11 ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

C. Michael Bailey's Best of 2005

by C. Michael Bailey
January 8, 2006

One of the difficult things about being a writer of any kind is that the writing is often an avocation rather than a vocation. In short, my day job recently overtook my night job in a major way, limiting my music writing. While I listened to much music, for the first time in ten years writing ...

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Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices Honoring Christmas

by C. Michael Bailey
January 8, 2006

cunctae res difficiles non potest eas homo explicare sermone non saturatur oculus visu nec auris impletur auditu quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est nihil sub sole novum nec valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est iam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos.

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George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection

by C. Michael Bailey
December 26, 2005

Comfort ye Comfort ye, my people. Sayeth your God, Sayeth your God... Isaiah 40, KJV And so begins one of the most readily identifiable Christmas collections on record. It is not a collection in the tradition of collections of familiar carols, hymns, and plainchant. It is ...

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I. Christmas 2005: Something Old...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this piece, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. Add to this, the deluge of holiday music, all worthy of ...

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II. Christmas 2005: Something New...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. That sets the stage for a more expansive list than in past ...

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III. Christmas 2005: Something Strange...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | Something SmoothIt is 75 degrees (F) the day before Thanksgiving at my home outside of Little Rock, Arkansas. If one does not believe in global warming, please join me duck hunting while I swat mosquitos and shoot cottonmouths. Unseasonable hot weather and sweat dripping on ...

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IV. Christmas 2005: And Something Smooth...

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2005

Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth Whew! The temperature has finally dropped to normal late-November levels, just in time for a Bombay Sapphire Martini, sunny-side up and this holiday's spate of smooth jazz. Various Artists40 Years: A Charlie Brown ChristmasPeak Records

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Artifacts: Three Major Jazz Discoveries

by C. Michael Bailey
November 21, 2005

Skeptical readers and listeners might think, “Why now are so many previously unreleased, unknown recordings by the jazz elite surfacing?" One might think that the record companies have known about these recordings all along and have chosen the right time, a time when everyone is bored with the same re-re-re-releases, over and over and over again; ...

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Article: Album Review

Tierney Sutton: I'm With the Band

Read "I'm With the Band" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
November 15, 2005

Jazz siren Tierney Sutton has produced her masterpiece. Following five well-received recordings, Sutton has done two things that ensure the superb quality of her new recording: one, she and her band perform live; and two, she fully integrates herself into the band, where all members exist as equals. Tierney Sutton has made a dent ...