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Fred Fried: When Winter Comes
by C. Michael Bailey
When Winter Comes is feather-light 7-string acoustic guitar lying on a bed of gossamer strings. That may be a bit of hyperbole, but this disc by Cape Cod guitarist Fred Fried is a collection of spatial and plush original recordings. Mr. Fried plays his guitar more like a piano than a stringed instrument, with the effect ...
Van Morrison: What
by C. Michael Bailey
For those readers who may think that Van Morrison has no business recording for Blue Note Records, I have just two words... Norah Jones. What’s Wrong with Picture? is Morrison’s debut on the jazz label and I suppose it is jazzy enough. He provides his characteristic Celtic blue-eyed soul over a broad ...
Various Artists: Blues From Up The Country
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 4 Blues From up the Country showcases the transitional music between the true Country Blues of Robert Johnson and Son House and the Urban Blues of middle-period Muddy Waters and Walter Jacobs. This mostly acoustic or crudely electrified music, raw and undone, comes from Delmark’s archives, recorded between the 1949 and ...
Various Artists: Jazz After Dark
by C. Michael Bailey
The popularity of compilation CDs such as Now That is What I Call Music and WOW might be owed to the duplex cultural effects of an aging population longing for Top 40 radio and the declining attention span of the youth. This confluence of influence has prompted record labels of all stripes to mine their respective ...
Bud Powell: Parisian Thoroughfares
by C. Michael Bailey
Parisian Thoroughfares follows The Paris Sessions as the second installment in Pablo’s release of Bud Powell performances from the private archives of the late Francis Paudras, Powell’s French benefactor. As with The Paris Sessions, this set includes live performances from the Club Saint-Germain, the Radio Télévision Française Studios, and the Blue Note Café, all in Paris. ...
The Telarc Blues Project
by C. Michael Bailey
Telarc International has slowly and quietly been populating its jazz and blues rosters with some of the foremost talent performing and recording today. The jazz roles boast the late Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander, Geoff Keezer, Benny Green, Russell Malone, Tierney Sutton, and McCoy Tyner. Th blues stables are just as impressive with Bob Margolin, ...
Why Classical Music is Important--The Lamentations of Jeremiah
by C. Michael Bailey
Why is it important in jazz, or any modern music for that matter, to have an awareness of the early Western Musical Traditions? Because it is academically and creatively responsible to know from whence we come in any artistic endeavor, be it musical or otherwise. “Classical" music, particularly of the Western Tradition, is the foundation of ...
The Rob Thorsen Quartet: Evolution
by C. Michael Bailey
Bassist-led recording dates make among the most interesting and swinging music produced in jazz. Paul Chambers’ recordings for Blue Note are a great case in point. Veteran bassist Rob Thorsen extends this tradition with Evolution. Thorsen is a San Francisco native who has been playing and performing the better part of his life and has appeared ...
Organism: The Jazz Organ Renaissance
by C. Michael Bailey
There has been in the last number of years a Renaissance of sorts for the jazz organ. Sam Yahel, Peter Goldstein, and Tony Monaco, all have made their mark in the jazz organ arena. The road pioneered by Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff, and Dr. Lonnie Smith has been given way to Medeski, Martin, and Wood ...
Various Artists: Klezmer Concertos and Encores
by C. Michael Bailey
Klezmer Concertos and Encores makes the perfect companion piece to Naxos World’s recent release Klezmer—Café Jew Zoo . Two visions of Jewish music are presented on these divergent recordings. The former is part of a larger project undertaken by Naxos to release American Jewish Classical Music from the Milken Archive . These pieces ...
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