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BlueRidge: Side by Side
by C. Michael Bailey
The sacred and profane interface seamlessly in bluegrass music as they do in the blues. It could be argued that the only qualitative differences between bluegrass and the blues are cultural ones, African-American versus Western European. But the thematic common denominators are the same: love, loss, God, Saturday night, and Sunday morning. BlueRidge is ...
The Rooftop Singers: The Best of The Vanguard Years
by C. Michael Bailey
The immediate appeal of the Rooftop Singers is their innocent yet informed style. Popular in the mid-'60s, this group predated the Hippie Movement and the Summer of Love. They arose during the searing career of the similar Weavers (the group guitarist/vocalist Erik Darling belonged to before joining the Rooftops). Where the Weavers became political lightening rods, ...
Ray Vega: Squeeze Squeeze
by C. Michael Bailey
Ray Vega illustrates what is most attractive about Latin jazz—that is, its inextinguishable spirit and rhythm. And I mean rhythm. From the get-go, Squeeze Squeeze is a Latin love fest, replete with the complex percussion necessary to support the orgy of cross- and counter-rhythms generated by the “head" musicians. Right out of the chute, Mr. Vega ...
Cincinnati May Festival, James Conlon, Conductor: Franz Liszt
by C. Michael Bailey
Franz Liszt was notable for his pyrotechnic piano technique fashioned after that of romantic violinist Niccolo Paganini, ushering in the romantic notion of the “Artist as Hero." As a beacon of the Romantic Movement, Liszt was on hand for the majority of the era. While best known as a pianist, piano composer, teacher, and son-in-law of ...
Jeff Baker: Baker Sings Chet
by C. Michael Bailey
Jeff Baker is a Boise, Idaho native with a New York state of mind. His debut recording, Baker sings Chet, pays tribute less to Chet than to the music the late vocalist made his own. Jeff Baker has a beautifully smooth and confident vocal style that would sound appealing singing polka music. Backing Mr. ...
George Mitchell: Play Zone
by C. Michael Bailey
George Mitchell is known most notably as keyboard expert for Diana Ross. He has also performed and recorded with Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, and Philly Joe Jones. His new release on OA2 Records is a mainstream affair that swings from beginning to end. The recording places the rhythm section in front, Chris Lee’s deft cymbal work ...
Various Artists: Africa Straight Ahead
by C. Michael Bailey
Heads Up Records continues its Africa Series with Africa Straight Ahead, a collection of reasonably mainstream jazz offerings by prominent South African jazz musicians. Listening to this collection conjures a couple of observations. First, jazz long ago became a universal language, assimilating the cultural characteristics of those composing and performing the music. Second, while not veering ...
Eric Bibb/Rory Block/Maria Muldaur: Sisters and Brothers
by C. Michael Bailey
Behold, how good and how pleasant for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity. —Psalm 133. I will be damned if I know what biblical translation was used for this quote. But that is no matter. Three journeyman artists have joined forces to bring the sensual and the divine together under ...
Mark Buselli and Claude Sifferlen: Take the Mitsu
by C. Michael Bailey
The flugelhorn has such a smooth, rounded tone that it can impart the warmest and most mellow ambiance to any instrument. When that recording is a piano duet, that warmth and mellowness are magnified dramatically. Warmth, not heat. While a virtuoso’s instrument, the flugelhorn is also a specialty instrument. In the hands of Mark Buselli, one ...
Clay Giberson: Aiming True, Volume 1
by C. Michael Bailey
Clay Giberson last crossed my radar playing with the Upper Room Trio on last year's well-received Cycling . His current release, Aiming True, Volume 1, is a solo piano excursion into moody, nocturnal climes. Is this jazz? Is this New Age? Does this belong on Hearts of Space ? Affirmative to all three. Labels are not ...
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