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Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
by C. Michael Bailey
The Wish Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you... , Matthew 7:7 (KJV) In 2001, I took a poll of All About Jazz contributors to determine the Top Ten Best Live Jazz Recordings. This poll corresponded with my previously completed series ...
The Beethoven Symphony Series 1: The Nine Symphonies
by C. Michael Bailey
Index Introduction What on earth does Beethoven have to do with Jazz? The Complete Beethoven Symphonies in SACD Kurt Masur, The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 Symphony No. ...
Heidi Martin: Hide
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist and composer Heidi Martin was born in Washington, DC and reared in Maryland, singing in church. In high school, she sang backup for professional artists including Bill Danoff of Starland Vocalband. Jazz became her monkey after hearing Shirley Horn in New York City. Martin pursued Jazz Studies at the University of the District ...
Two Volume 2s: Mulgrew Miller and Jessica Williams-Live at Yoshi
by C. Michael Bailey
Two MaxJazz discs recorded live at Oakland's Yoshi's Jazz House surfaced on my desk at about the same time. Both are the followup releases for pianists: Mulgrew Miller and Jessica Williams, two performers of the same generation who came of age between the jazz-turbulent 1960s and the “young lions of the 1980s. The two performances offer ...
Two 20-Bit Fantasies - Thelonious Monk: Alone in San Francisco & Art Pepper: Winter Moon
by C. Michael Bailey
Fantasy Jazz, now owned by Concord Records, is continuing its 20-bit remastering program with two releases offering a beautiful comparison between a solo instrument performance and the most challenging of jazz settings, one with a string section: Thelonious Monk's Alone I San Francisco and Art Pepper's Winter Moon, respectively. The sound quality of both is uniformly ...
The Stryker/Slagle Band: Live at the Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Dave Stryker has the superhuman ability to be everywhere at once. In peering back at my recent reviews involving the artist, I find his fine recordings with Trio Mundo, Carnival and Rides Again, and the trio outing Exit 13 with drummer Sylvia Cuenca. But one of the most notable was Stryker's Zoho release with friend ...
Gene Harris
by C. Michael Bailey
Gene Harris (1933-2000) can safely be termed the most serious populist jazz musician to perform in the last 50 years. He is among the most accessible and amiable of jazz pianists, who focused his superior command of the blues and ballads to produce some of the most enduring and enlightening jazz music ever. For these reasons, ...
Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard & Waltz for Debby
by C. Michael Bailey
To look at Bill Evans in the 1950s and '60s, one might think that he was the most unlikely looking jazz titan to ever depress a piano key. Thin and bespectacled with a dweeb's haircut, Evan's was the picture of a bookish intellectual. He was well versed in the European Impressionism of Les Six and Debussy, ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel
by C. Michael Bailey
Temperamental, passionate, standoffish, reticent... all of these adjectives describe the Miles Davis of the mid-1950s on. Like Beethoven, Davis considered himself an artist to be accepted on his own terms and a servant to no one. This did not endear Davis to his audiences, but that was no matter. Forget that Miles Davis was not the ...
Charles Mingus: Mingus At Antibes
by C. Michael Bailey
Charles Mingus. You just have to know that he would have nudged, cajoled, or bullied his way into the top of this list, even twenty years after his death. Mingus at Antibes is a kinetic, frenetic, dysthymic document of the genius of an overly stimulated, overly indulgent, and overly gifted personality. Mingus was not unlike Mozart ...
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