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Duke Ellington: The Complete Live at Newport 1956

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by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

Within the subatomic structure of American musical styles, the blues is the single indivisible particle with which all else is made. The blues combined with other influencing elements (eg. ethnic, religious, regional, cultural) form Country & Western, Bluegrass, Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Gospel and, yes, finally Jazz. It can be argued that ...

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Sonny Rollins: A Night At The Village Vanguard

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

Sonny Rollins A Night At The Village Vanguard Blue Note 99795 1957/1999 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) Located on 7th Avenue just below West 11th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, the Village Vanguard has been the seat of live jazz since the 1940s. Ninety-one live recordings have ...

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John Coltrane: Live at Birdland

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

John Coltrane Live at Birdland MCA/Impulse! 33109 1963 In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a gaggle of malcontents planted 12 sticks of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The dynamite exploded eight hours later killing Denise McNair, ...

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The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

by C. Michael Bailey
August 10, 2005

The top two live Jazz recordings in this ongoing series were recorded at the Village Vanguard within six months of each another in 1961. They represent the polar opposites of jazz. One is melodically searching, the other harmonically searching. One is quiet and exact, the other is loud and torrential. They were equally influential and visionary ...

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Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery Smokin' At The Half Note Verve 829578 1965 The late jazz guitarist Emily Remler once said that lurking inside her middle-class Jewish body was a black man with a fat right thumb. That black man with a fat thumb was Wes Montgomery. ...

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Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea Columbia 40589 1955 In the same way that the former St. Louis Cardinal/Atlanta Brave Terry Pendleton demonstrated that a fat man could play most-valuable-player in baseball, Erroll Garner showed that one did not have to be able to read a note of music to ...

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Bud Powell: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall

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by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

In 1953 the jazz genre called Be Bop, Bop, Re Bop, or Modern Jazz had fully matured and was settling in as the established mainstream rather than the cutting edge movement it had been in the early 1940s. Jazz as a style collective had begun to further fray at the ends and Be Bop gave way ...

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Article: Building a Jazz Library

Best Live Jazz Recordings: The Best of the Rest

by C. Michael Bailey
August 8, 2005

This article concludes my series on The Best Live Jazz Recordings that has appeared episodically over the past year. The present installment addresses “the best of the rest," those recordings voted on by the All About Jazz writership but falling just below the cut for inclusion in the original top ten list. This a baker's dozen ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Enrico Rava: La Dolce Vita & Full of Life

by C. Michael Bailey
August 3, 2005

The jazz stylings of Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava, much like that of his Polish counterpart Tomasz Stanko, are a synthesis 1950s Miles Davis and Chet Baker transformed through the fifty years that have elapsed since the release of the first sides which would become Birth of the Cool and the Gerry Mulligan pianoless quartets ...

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Peter Martin: In the P.M.

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by C. Michael Bailey
July 6, 2005

Peter Martin is an intelligent, erudite pianist with a careful and acute ear for composing and arranging. He decided to demonstrate both talents by sneaking into studio with his long time trio mates, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson. These three players are hot off a supporting gig with vocalist Dianne Reeves. While primarily a ...