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George Shearing/Cannonball Adderley Quintets: At Newport
by C. Michael Bailey
The Newport Jazz Festival, July 5, 1957. At Newport is a potent study in contrasts. Presented here are back-to-back sets, all previously unreleased, by the respective quintets at the 1957 event. Adderley’s band emits the Southern funk of the Delta, the church, and the roadhouse, testifying the cleansing fire of the blues. Shearing, on ...
Isaac Hayes: Isaac Hayes at Wattstax
by C. Michael Bailey
A Hot August Night in the Valley. Once upon a dream, in a galaxy far, far away, Isaac Hayes stood not as the vocal track for a silly cable TV cartoon sporting human stool as a character, but as the finest singer/songwriter/musician American music had to offer. Before establishing himself as a top solo ...
Boris Grebenshikov: Russian Songwriter
by C. Michael Bailey
The further East one travels musically from Europe, the greater the Hebrew and Sumarian influence that can be heard. What emanates from these Russian melodies is an ancient character, calligraphic and not unlike the Rosetta Stone. I am not saying that this music is strictly Hebraic, but the music does express a Middle Eastern personality as ...
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Natalia
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima’s previous Khaeon release, Mambo No. 5 was touted as one of the best releases of 2001. Mr. Barbosa-Lima opts for a smaller group this time, performing many of the selections solo or in duet with fellow label-mates John Benitez or Gustavo Colina on bass. Natalia picks up where Mambo No.5 left off, pursing ...
In Search of...Momentum [1-10]
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by C. Michael Bailey
Ahmad Jamal: A Rap Ahmad Jamal Master of Time and Space Showed Miles His place Added the chase To more is less It's a jazzman's guess What Bird would bless Or such a mess But Ahmad himself ...
Rene Marie: Live At the Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
The biggest surprise perhaps on Rene Marie’s inaugural live recording is the conspicuous absence of her controversial reading of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit" and the traditional “Dixie" in medley from her last MAXJAZZ recording Vertigo (MXJ114, 2001). To Marie’s credit, she does cover her previously covered “How Can I Keep From Singing" (the title of her ...
Bobby Timmons: The Prestige Trio Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Late 2003 will see a changing of the guard at the famous Philadelphia Orchestra. Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch will turn over his baton to his younger protégé Christoph Eschenbach, providing the orchestra only its seventh conductor in its century-plus history. During a recent interview in the Paris of the West, Eshenbach pointed out that there does not ...
Sonny Stitt: Goin
by C. Michael Bailey
Goin’ Down Slow was recorded during the same period as Bobby Timmons’ Orchestra and Trio, both recordings made in the 1970s to appeal to '70s sensibilities. That it is unfair to compare these recordings by today’s or today’s retro-sensibilities goes without saying. But nothing takes the grease out of hard bop faster than strings and other ...
Steve Barta: Three Ships
by C. Michael Bailey
Better Late than Never. Pianist and composer Steve Barta has released several fine holiday-related discs. To date these include That Christmas Feeling, Noel, Christmas Around the World, and The Twelve Days of Christmas. His Christmas offerings, especially the latter and this new recording, have absorbed a Bossa base that was very much in presence in his ...
Vince Benedetti and Diana Krall: Heartdrops
by C. Michael Bailey
The true novelty of this recording lies more in hearing a younger, greener, less polished Diana Krall than the specific results of her collaboration with trombonist Vince Benedetti. Heartdrops is a 1990 studio recording that occurred after a fortuitous meeting between Benedetti and Krall and a series of dates in between. What I can ...
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