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Eight Questions for Skip Heller
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller looks like the love child Charlie Sheen, Lenny Bruce, and the young Art Pepper. He is tall and thin (Mr. Heller is a runner) with a plume of dark hair that would appear more comfortable on the mid-1950s streets of his native Philadelphia than the sunny climes of Southern California. The music he makes ...
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin
by C. Michael Bailey
Deep In A Dream James Gavin Alfred A. Knopf 2002, 430 pages ISBN: 0-679-44287-1 The Heart of Darkness or Die Leiden des jurgen Chet Baker Early in James Gavin's finely crafted biography of the brilliant and troubled trumpeter Chet Baker, the author quotes long-time Baker associate Enrico Pieranunzi ...
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide
by C. Michael Bailey
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide John Swenson, ed. Random House, New York 1999 ISBN 0-679-76873-4 No, I Don't Think So. The back cover of The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (TRSJBAG) touts the new publication as the most comprehensive ...
Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me - A Musical Biography
by C. Michael Bailey
Everything Happens To Me Keith Shadwick Backbeat Books2002 ISBN 0-87930-708-0 Years before Brad Meldau thought to redefine the jazz piano trio, Bill Evans defined it in the first place. In piano jazz history, Bill Evans influenced every major pianist to come after him. Before Evans, influentially, only ...
The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original
by C. Michael Bailey
The Art Pepper Companion Todd Selbert Cooper Square Press ISBN: 0-08154-1967-0 The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original is the most significant print media on the greatest alto saxophonist of the post Parker era published since Pepper's autobiography Straight Life was updated and published in 1994. It was ...
Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz and Death Frederick J. Spencer Univ Press of Mississippi ISBN 1-57806-453-8 Charlie Parker's famous alto saxophone break on “Night in Tunisia," recorded for Ross Russell's Dial label March 28, 1946 may be immortal, but the fragile vessel producing such genius was not. The health and demise of jazz musicians, ...
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
by C. Michael Bailey
By Robert Palmer Reprint, Viking Press, New York, 1995 ISBN 0140062238 Quantum Mechanics. One of the basic units of jazz is the blues. Therefore, it is appropriate that Michael Ricci would enlist the formidable talents of music journalist Ed Kopp to edit the All About Jazz Blues Section. In ...
Russell Malone: Playground
by C. Michael Bailey
Russell Malone is a guitarist’s guitarist. He shares with Joe Pass the distinction for being equally a superb accompanist and leader, as evidenced by recordings with Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr., Shirley Horn and Wynton Marsalis—as well as his own recordings. He opens MaxJazz's inaugural String Series with two originals for jazz quartet. “You Should have ...
The Fred Hersch Trio + 2: The Fred Hersch Trio + 2
by C. Michael Bailey
With this record pianist Fred Hersch leaves the friendly confines of his trio, expanding it to a quintet, and produces one of the edgiest releases of his career. Comprised of nine original compositions and a single standard ("And I Love Her"), The Fred Hersch Trio + 2 explores more deeply Hersch’s balladic writing and performing. Mr. ...
Claudia Acuna: Luna
by C. Michael Bailey
MaxJazz, the independent jazz label formed in the late-1990s which originally specialized in vocal jazz, continues its well-received vocal jazz series with what can only be termed a pièce de résistance, the recording of Chilean-born singer Claudia Acuna. Miss Acu'a has two previously releases on Verve that have helped establish her a talent worthy of recognition. ...
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