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Red Priest: Priest on the Run
by C. Michael Bailey
Classical Music With Sense Of Humor Part I The peculiar name adopted by this quartet of very talented baroque performance specialists derives from the moniker assigned the famous Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (of The Four Seasons fame) because of his flaming red hair. The repertoire was chosen with a wink and is loosely based on ...
Ken and Harry Watters: Brothers III
by C. Michael Bailey
While his brother Harry was serving in the armed forces, Ken Watters produced the exceptional Southern Exposure . Now Harry is back and Brothers III has crested the horizon. Brothers and Brothers II established the trumpet/trombone front line in the band, characterized buy a fluid, vibrato-less tone. This gives the group a shimmering sound that is ...
Doc Watson: Trouble in Mind
by C. Michael Bailey
Culled from ten Vanguard and Sugar Hill recordings, Trouble in Mind is an exquisite assemblage of white rural blues by its greatest living practitioner, Arthel "Doc" Watson, the now 80-year-old flat picking savant from Deep Gap, North Carolina. Watson exists today as the only extant proponent of that link between African-American and Caucasian rural music. He ...
Skip Heller with Dose: The Battle in Seattle 3.13.03
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller is a West Coast Uri Caine with a much more wicked sense of humor. That comparison should be flattering to both parties, as they were friends growing up on the jazz fertile street of Philadelphia. Both men like to apply jazz, or simply music, if you will, in the most unlikely places. Ever searching, ...
Various Artists: Exile on Blues Street
by C. Michael Bailey
With Exile on Blues Street, Randy Labbe and Telarc Blues did not merely hit a home run, but a grand slam to win the World Series by one in the bottom of the ninth. Where The Blues White Album was a troublesome fit and The Blues on Blonde on Blonde was a near fit, Exile fits ...
Greg Skaff: Blues for Mr. T
by C. Michael Bailey
This year has seen an organ renaissance. Organ jazz had its genesis in Fred Longshaw, who performed with a reed organ on the 1925 Bessie Smith recording of "St. Louis Blues." Fats Waller was a pipe organ virtuoso. Count Basie introduced the organ into swing music, giving way to Wild Bill Davis, who predicted Jimmy Smith ...
Jeff Lang: Everything is Still
by C. Michael Bailey
What a difference a few years makes. Jeff Lang’s 1998 recording Cedar Grove crossed my desk a few years ago, sporting Mr. Lang with shoulder-length hair and an eclectic, if rough, set of original tunes that dissect the American roots vernacular. All this and Lang is Australian. Cedar Grove was populated with intelligently composed lyrics and ...
The Little Grasscals: Bluegrass
by C. Michael Bailey
Bluegrass is an indigenous American music that has its roots in the Irish Celtic tradition of the 18th Century. After colliding with country & western and blues music, bluegrass emerged as America’s “folk" music. As such, this remains an oversimplification, as the music is as much an amalgam as the American population itself. Bluegrass ...
Dave Stryker and Steve Slagle: The Stryker/Slagle Band
by C. Michael Bailey
The Stryker/Slagle Band documents a working group that finally made it into the studio to preserve its unique sound. Dave Stryker and Steve Slagle have been performing together in several contexts since 1986, including performing on each other's recordings. This is the first time the two musicians co-lead a date. Stryker, Slagle, and drummer Tim Horner ...
J: Septett
by C. Michael Bailey
Multi-instrumentalist Jóel Pálsson has come into his own over the past five years. A native of Reykjavik, Iceland, Pálsson was a mere 25 years old when he emerged onto the recording scene with his first commercial release, Prím. Fresh out of Berklee, having studied under George Garzone and Bill Pierce, Mr. Pálsson’ freshman effort was characterized ...
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