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Jim Snidero: Strings
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz soloists especially like to make two types of recordings--those in duo with piano and those with strings . Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis made very fine piano duet recordings (Pepper and Morgan with the same pianist, George Cables, Gillespie and Faddis with Oscar Peterson). But seemingly, the Holy Grail of jazz ...
John Pizzarelli Trio: Live at Birdland
by C. Michael Bailey
Live at Birdland is two hours, twelve minutes, and sixteen seconds the finest of the American Musical Art form. The John Pizzarelli Trio celebrated its tenth anniversary at New York City's Birdland club this past year and Telarc was there to capture the festivities. How fortunate we are. Forty-three-year-old John Pizzarelli is jazz royalty. ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Compliments of the Mysterious Phantom
by C. Michael Bailey
If Sun Ra was jazz music's Timothy Leary, then Rahsaan Roland Kirk was its Elijah.Kirk, jazz music's most iconoclastic character, was also one of its most gifted. Once dismissed as a circus sideshow, he has seen his popularity, as well as his influence, steadily increase over the past twenty years. Kirk has been called ...
John LaPorta: I Remember Woody
by C. Michael Bailey
The self-produced I Remember Woody was put together by educator, composer, and musician John LaPorta in honor of his former employer, the famed big band leader Woody Herman. If there ever was an independently produced recording that cried out for broader distribution, this is the one. Firmly conventional without being stodgy, traditionally swinging without being boring, ...
George Barnes Quartet: Don
by C. Michael Bailey
One cannot help experiencing the warmth and friendliness of this recording. Session guitarist George Barnes could not seem more real than when he bantered with the crowd at the Concord, California's Willows Theater in the Summer of 1977. Don’t Get Around Much Any More was to be Mr. Barnes’ last recording, as he died from a ...
Bobby Previte & Bump: Counterclockwise
by C. Michael Bailey
After an absence of over 10 years, drummer Bobby Previte reorganizes the "Led Zeppelin of Jazz," Bump. Any familiar listener has to know that a disc with Previte, Steve Swallow and Marty Ehrlich is going to be a loud, messy, challenging ordeal - and Counterclockwise delivers the goods. In front of Previte’s insistent rock beat, the ...
Ken Clark Organ Trio: Eternal Funk
by C. Michael Bailey
Slowly but surely, the organ trio is beginning to enjoy a healthy resurgence. Spurred on by the recent likes of Joey DeFrancesco, Tony Monaco, and Larry Goldings and the front guard of Jimmy Smith, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Jimmy McGriff, home cookin’ has become fashionable again. Presently, organist Ken Clark and his trio are submitted for ...
Horace Silver: Paris Blues: Olympia Theater, Paris, 1962
by C. Michael Bailey
This is the classic Horace Silver Quintet. It existed and recorded here while Miles was between his two great quintets, just before Art Blakey recorded Caravan with Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter, and while John Coltrane was assembling his classic quartet. This concert takes place almost half way between Finger Poppin' With the Horace Silver Quintet ...
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz A Critic’s Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings Ben Ratliff Times Books, Henry Holt and Company. New York, 2002 ISBN 0-8050-7068-0 Here is a clear example of superb music writing: “Here we enter two ...
Naxos Classical I: A Snapshot of the Changing the Face of Classical Music Marketing
by C. Michael Bailey
In 1997 Naxos International, the budget classical music label inaugurated its Jazz subsidiary with the release of six diverse recordings . During the intervening six years, the label released 65 critically well-received discs, all which have been reviewed within these pages. Now, it appears the Naxos Jazz Label is dormant. While retaining its place on the ...
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