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Roberto Magris Europlane: Check-in
by C. Michael Bailey
Roberto Magris's Check-in began its life as a self-produced recording reviewed earlier in these pages. Now with a new label sponsorship and distribution, this fine recording may find its larger audience. Magris is a pianist born in Trieste, Italy in 1959. Beginning his professional career in the late '70s, Magris went on to front several notable ...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: No Boundaries
by C. Michael Bailey
Sonically stunning, No Boundaries is a brave experiment in the dissolution of one culture in another that is only modestly successful. Ladysmith alone or the English Chamber Orchestra alone would work well, but more often than not, together they are unconvincing, a genre stretching effort (ill) conceived in the boardroom and not the studio. Where the ...
Remembering Saxophonist Massimo Urbani
by C. Michael Bailey
Massimo Urbani was born in Primavalle, Rome on May 8, 1957. He was the eldest of five sons from a lower middle class family. Urbani's interest in music emerged when he was six, when he attended concerts presented by local bands appearing in his neighborhood. The young Urbani was also amply exposed to a variety of ...
Yellowjackets: Altered State
by C. Michael Bailey
Yellowjackets' music is steeped in the R&B/jazz tradition of the Jazz Crusaders, Junior Mance, Weather Report, and, of course Miles. Russell Ferrante always manages to slip a bit of church into his piano playing, a trend quickly picked up and absconded with by Bob Mintzer. Jimmy Haslip plays the most elastic bass since Victor Bailey, and ...
Tab Benoit: Fever for the Bayou
by C. Michael Bailey
Looking at the cover photo of Tab Benoit's new recording, Fever for the Bayou, one would fear that the big label creep might have cleaned up Mr. Benoit a bit too much. The guitarist/singer is sporting a crisp purple (mauve, as my wife would say) shirt, a stylish gelled haircut, and perfectly cultivated five-o'clock shadow. Is ...
Zoho Music: Lower Westchester County's Biggest Secret
by C. Michael Bailey
Latin / Jazz with a New York Vibe is a very accurate description of the music released by the New York record label Zoho Music. Borne from the archives of Khaeon Records, formerly a premiere independent exponent of Latin jazz, Zoho Music was the brainchild of über-entrepreneur Jochen Becker. Some of the original Khaeon releases made ...
John Pizzarelli: Knowing You
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalists John Pizzarelli and Harry Connick, Jr. have a few things in common. They are both young and attractive, hyper-talented men with loads of respect for the Great American Songbook. But that is where the comparison essentially ends. Connick, a pianist, concentrates primarily on the “standard" standards and his own compositions. Pizzarelli, a guitarist, concentrates on ...
John Ellis: One Foot In the Swamp
by C. Michael Bailey
"Calmette Shawarma" (track 10 on this release) is one of those rare jazz compositions that is beautifully tethered to nothing and makes perfect sense when you hear it. It begins with a “standard" jazz head that is complex in the way Jazz Messengers heads were in the '50s and '60s when Wayne Shorter was redefining the ...
Naxos Classical II: Continuing To Forge Ahead With The Familiar And Not
by C. Michael Bailey
Naxos Records has completely redefining the Classical Music marketing model in a stepwise fashion. The label has done this, first by using very fine, yet unknown artists to perform the standard and not so standard repertoire and selling the results for a budget price. The next step was fleshing out the not-so-standard repertoire and specializing in ...
2005 Grammy Award Round-Up
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz, and all music, once again had a good year at the Grammy Awards with the late Ray Charles weighing in several awards. Many of the recordings that won Awards at this year's ceremonies were featured in All About Jazz. Here is a smattering of those features: Contemporary Jazz Album Unspeakable
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Lou Marini: A Solo Career Starting At The Age Of 80
Jazz Raconteurs
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John Coltrane At 100: A Global Perspective
History of Jazz
John Coltrane in Detroit: A Brief History
Live Review
Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City
Interview
Jasur Khalilov: From Falak to Fusion
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Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters
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