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Harmonious Wail: Gypsy Swing
by C. Michael Bailey
It is fairly impossible to discuss "gypsy swing" without discussing Django Reinhardt. The two entities are synonymous. Reinhardt, along with violinist cohort Stephane Grappelli, made a significant contribution to the development of American jazz with their Quintet du Hot club de France. The music, produced between the 1930s and 1950s, was firmly grounded in the American ...
MJQ: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige and Pablo Recordings
by C. Michael Bailey
In his homage to Johnny Cash upon the artist's recent death broadcast on CBS's Sunday Morning, commentator and VH1 Executive Director Bill Flanagan opined It's becoming more apparent with every year that goes by that the period from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s was a golden age for popular music [including jazz]. To have lived in ...
Duke Ellington: Masterpieces By Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part I.Columbia Records waited until the end of 1950 before recording directly to tape, enabling pieces longer that the biblical three minutes to be recorded. All of this, in spite of the fact that long playing records debuted two years previously. This occasion was the first time in ...
Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part II Duke Ellington Uptown was released shortly after Ellington adopted the 12-inch long player philosophy and began recording his concert of some of his greatest pieces. Before the present release, this recording was issued on three different occasions, each released including slightly different material. The original release (Columbia ML ...
James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz Raconteur James Blood Ulmer began his blues march with the release of 2001’s Memphis Blood . On that release Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, convinced that Ulmer was one of the last great blues singers, wanted to record the iconoclast in Memphis at the famed Sun Studios. The result was a collection of blues standards presented ...
Duke Ellington: Festival Session
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part III. Festival Session is the third in a trio of remastered and reconfigured Columbia releases to the Legacy imprint. The other two are Ellington Uptown and Masterpieces by Ellington , both worthy of purchase considering the amount of reconstruction and updating the releases have undergone since the 1950s. All ...
Eric Sardinas: Black Pearls
by C. Michael Bailey
It has been noted in the music media that Seattle-based Grunge rock and subsequent movements have killed the guitar hero. Kurt Cobain? Please, he was fair as a garage rock guitarist. Pearl Jam? Nothing special, they are all Eddie Vedder. Mark Tremonti of Creed and Staind’s Michael Mushok play no lead guitar, satisfied with playing in ...
The Del McCoury Band: It
by C. Michael Bailey
Del McCoury is a rock star. Bluegrass, like jazz, exists on the periphery of popular music. It possesses all of the elements that make popular music popular, melody, harmony, rhythm, beat, time, and content. Why, then, is bluegrass a fringe indulgence? I suspect that it is because this pure acoustic music never sold out to its ...
Various Artists: 50 Years of Jazz and Blues: Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
As part of the label’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Chicago’s own Delmark Records has released two double-disc sets, highlighting the label’s jazz and blues lines respectively. Presently reviewed is the jazz set. This set is composed of 28 songs, five of which are not previously released on compact disc. These included Art Hodes’ interpretation of "Cake Walkin’ ...
Tony Monaco Trio & Joey DeFrancesco Trio: A New Generation
by C. Michael Bailey
Recently there has been a glut of trendy organ jazz records. All have been capably conceived and performed. Most have been cutting edge, expanding the role of organ jazz with in the music. The majority of this music has steered away from standards and blues and focused on original compositions as vehicles. While, this is what ...
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