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Patti Wicks/JazzGuests: Basic Feeling
by C. Michael Bailey
Patti Wicks has a single malt voice and a Basie brevity in her pianism. Slipping under the MaxJazz radar, Wicks traveled to Italy to record with a native rhythm section of bassist Giovanni Sanguineti and drummer Giovanni Gullino. She was joined by the fine alto saxophonist Claudio Chiara, who provided tasty obbligato, comping, and solos to ...
Amos Lee: Amos Lee
by C. Michael Bailey
Amos Lee represents Blue Note's effort to capitalize on the success of Norah Jones by marketing a male version of the genre-stretching pianist/vocalist. There. I said it and got that out of the way. That is just so much business hooey, but it needed to be said anyway. Amos Lee is a ...
Cheryl Bentyne: Let Me Off Uptown
by C. Michael Bailey
Some listeners will be completely satisfied with transparent pop vocalists like Mariah Carey. Others can only be satisfied with densely difficult jazz vocalists, like Lisa Sokolov or Betty Carter. But, as in politics, there also exists an enormous moderate middle ground, a population which craves musical excellence but may not crave the experimental edge. Cheryl Bentyne's ...
Jimmy Thackery: Healing Ground
by C. Michael Bailey
Dear Reader: Go and find a copy of the Nighthawk's Open All Night (Genes, 1976/1995). Cue up the first song, Sonny Boy Williamson's “Nine Below Zero. The singer and guitarist is a youthful James Thackery, veteran of 300-plus shows a year, squeezing out those perfectly streamlined blues licks like they mean something. Fast forward to the ...
Kate McGarry: Mercy Streets
by C. Michael Bailey
Kate McGarry has become a conspicuous presence among jazz vocalists because of her effortless assimilation of several major jazz vocal styles into a single musical vision. In her singing, one can detect elements of Kurt Elling, Betty Carter, Joni Mitchell, Cassandra Wilson, and Norah Jones. In this respect, McGarry is pushing the boundaries of jazz vocals ...
Connie Evingson: Gypsy in My Soul
by C. Michael Bailey
2005 should be declared the Year of the Female Jazz Vocalist. In this first quarter we have seen new releases from Cheryl Bentyne, Kate McGarry, Patti Wicks, and Dena DeRose. All are notable artists whose new recordings are equally notable. Add to this Connie Evingson's beautifully provocative Gypsy in My Soul, and one can only be ...
Vienna State Opera: Beethoven's Fidelio
by C. Michael Bailey
Vienna State Opera Conducted by Karl Böhm, Wilhelm Furtwängler Beethoven's Fidelio Andante 2005 Background. Harold Schonberg's book Lives of the Great Composers is divided into chapters based on the life and work of a single composer and entitled descriptively. Schonberg's chapter on Ludwig van ...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004 Mickey Hart (Editor); Paul Bresnick (Series Editor) Publisher: Da Capo Press October 30, 2004 ISBN: 0306813807 360 pages The Da Capo Best Music Writing series turns five volumes old with the publishing of the Da Capo Best Music ...
Pablo Ziegler: Bajo Cero
by C. Michael Bailey
Rescued from the ashes of Khaeon Records, Bajo Cero should be welcomed with open arms. I warmly received this recording when it was first released and am fortunate to have the opportunity to reconsider it here. The disc is ostensibly a duet between former Astor Piazzolla-pianist Pablo Ziegler and guitarist Quique Sinesi, Ziegler's Nuevo Tango Duo. ...
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell: Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World
by C. Michael Bailey
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century popular music provides a unique prism through which to view how our present structures have evolved. Scarborough Fayre-Traditional Tunes from the British Isles and the New World is a cleverly programmed cycle of songs and song types common in Britain and America before and after American independence. It is enlightenment, for example, ...
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