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John Hiatt and the Goners: Beneath this Gruff Exterior
by C. Michael Bailey
John Hiatt and Sonny Landreth—nothing, and I mean nothing could be better. John Hiatt has advanced to the forefront of American rock songwriters, a group of musicians that include Warren Zevon, Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and John Prine. Sonny Landreth is the stratospheric slide guitarist who knows no near competitor sporting a bottleneck ...
Janis Siegel: Sketches of Broadway
by C. Michael Bailey
Manhattan Transfer singers Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne have been responsible for the most durable recordings in the Telarc Jazz warehouse. To date, Ms. Siegel has released or been included on five Telarc releases: Couldn't be Hotter (with the Manhattan Transfer), Got Swing (with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), I Wish You Love , ...
Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East: Live at Birdland
by C. Michael Bailey
Say hooray for straight-ahead big band music. Trombonist Scott Whitfield breezed through NYC’s Birdland March 10, 2003 and these are the recorded results. First, the lion’s share of the disc’s nine compositions are uniquely Whitfield’s own. Not trying to plow new fields, Mr. Whitfield plays with a post-swing era 1950s style that is very accessible and ...
Dave Pietro: Embrace: Impressions of Brazil
by C. Michael Bailey
Dave Pietro follows his successful tribute to Stevie Wonder, Standard Wonder, with an hommage to the music of Brazil"" Embrace. This recording is a little-big-band recording of basically images of Brazil according to Mr. Pietro. The seeds of this recording were planted when Pietro was on tour in South America with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. ...
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, Conductor: Jennifer Higdon
by C. Michael Bailey
This recording is auspicious for two reasons. First, it clearly indicates that we should expect the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s fourth musical director, Robert Spano, to take the orchestra in unexpected directions. His three previous recordings at the helm of the ASO have brought the young conductor a great deal of attention, while his recording of Ralph ...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002 & 2003
by C. Michael Bailey
I have been trying to write this review for the past two months. The Da Capo Best Music Writing series was started in 2000 and I previously reviewed in these pages the first two volumes, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 & 2001. Like those two volumes, the 2002 and 2003 editions of the series host ...
Jeff Ray: The Walkup
by C. Michael Bailey
I might have completely written this disc off as simply another anemic adult contemporary offering for the Rippingtons/Shadowfax lemmings had I not made it five tracks deep to the title cut. There I found the greasy guitar-organ funk running deep. “The Walkup" has an insistent groove established by guitarist and leader Jeff Ray and maintained by ...
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
I listen to a great deal of music. Categorically, I can say there are really only two types'good and better. As with the appreciation of anything, time must pass before the inherent value can be appropriately realized. That is why it is such great pleasure to review re-released recordings. More often than not, older recordings that ...
Origin Arts: The Tsunami from Seattle
by C. Michael Bailey
In general, the median quality of Jazz Music is several orders of magnitude greater than that of Popular Music. To this writer, this is best evidenced by the flood of music spilling out of my mailbox on a daily basis. Amazingly, the vast majority of music that I listen to is of a very high quality. ...
Art Pepper: Smack Up
by C. Michael Bailey
Art Pepper produced the greatest recordings of the so-called “first phase" of his career during periods of intense chaos. A case in point is Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, where the altoist--rusty from inactivity, angry because of the surprise recording session set up by his then-wife Diane, and very, very strung out--expelled an acknowledged masterpiece. ...
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