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Virginia Mayhew: Phantoms
by C. Michael Bailey
Virginia Mayhew's previous recording, No Walls (Foxhaven, 2000) , introduced the saxophonist in a big way to the jazz public. It was her third recording overall, being preceded by Nina Green (Chiaroscuro, 1997) and It's Time for Virginia Mayhew (Philology, 1996). Ms. Mayhew has established herself at the forefront of tenor/soprano saxophonists and composers and rests ...
The Gibson Brothers: Bona Fide
by C. Michael Bailey
The Gibson Brothers are not Nickel Creek. Their music is not cutting edge, andit need not be. Leigh and Eric Gibson are keepers of the flame, playing a traditional brand of bluegrass very well. Both are able singers capable of effecting the "high lonesome" tenor pioneered by Big Mon. Their songs here, all ...
Gene Harris Quartet: Listen Here!
by C. Michael Bailey
This reissue of Listen Here ! is part of a larger release program promoted by Concord Jazz during the label's 30th Anniversary year, which also includes the re-release of 30 important recordings from the vault in the SACD/hybrid format. All of these releases are compatible with standard CD players as well as the multi-channel SACD player. ...
Ted Nash: Still Evolved
by C. Michael Bailey
Still Evolved can be heard as an accidental suite, a collection of compositions that hang together independent of design. Ted Nash is most recently holding down a tenor chair in the Kennedy Center Jazz Orchestra. Here he turns his attention to small group performance and composition... with a hurricane-like creative force. Mr. Nash has composed eight ...
Count Basie Orchestra: America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years
by C. Michael Bailey
The Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra – the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra – which one is superior? A more contemporary example would be the fractious communities who favor the Beatles as opposed to the Rolling Stones. Personally, I have always favored the organic feel of the Stones. I give the edge ...
Ed Gerhard: House of Guitars
by C. Michael Bailey
Every guitarist remembers their first guitar. Often it was one of those piece-of-shit Harmonies, Silvertones, Oahues...pawnshop guitars originally sold by Sears in the sixties. The action was as high as the Washington Monument, causing hand cramps making chords in the open position. An instrumentalist’s purgatory, you think? No, these are precisely the instruments über -guitarist Ed ...
Chris Cortez: Hold It Right There
by C. Michael Bailey
If Wes Montgomery incompletely morphed into John Pizzarelli, then the resulting sound would approximate Chris Cortez’s guitar style. If Louis Jordan incompletely morphed with the same John Pizzarelli, that result would approximate Mr. Cortez’s vocal style. Mr. Cortez plays octaves all over a set of swing standards on his new release, Hold it Right There. He ...
Ilona Knopfler: Some Kind of Wonderful
by C. Michael Bailey
Parisienne Ilona Knopfler breezes through an eclectic collection of contemporary classics with a jazz flair. The music is vintage mid-‘60s to mid-‘70s AM radio fare. Ms. Knopfler’s band delivers a "Some Kind of Wonderful" with a Funk Brothers precision and a Tower of Power horn section sensibility. Rod Argent’s "It’s the time of the Season" and ...
Thelonious Monk: Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia
by C. Michael Bailey
New Monk Few things in jazz can possibly be better than previously unheard sets by late jazz greats. When that music comes from of the very spirit of jazz, Thelonious Monk, it is time for consideration and celebration. Lurking within the Thelonious Monk Family Archives is a mother lode of previously unreleased music by the jazz ...
Little Feat Live at the Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts
by C. Michael Bailey
Little Rock, Saturday, September 20, 2003. About halfway through their fundraising concert for Little Rock, Arkansas's Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts, veteran West Coast band Little Feat launched into the perennial Feat favorite “Willin'." As an inclusion in the Little Feat 2003 set list, “Willin'" was a vehicle for what have become the band's ...
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