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Christian Howes: Jazz on Sale
by C. Michael Bailey
“Jimi Hendrix of the violin," my ass! It is sad that we are saddled with such tired metaphors. Christian Howes is considerable more talented than such a moniker would suggest. Lee Brown referred to Howes as a “Jazz Paganini." Now that is more like it. Classically trained since the age of five and performing Mendelssohn’s D ...
Jay Leonhart: Rodgers and Leonhart
by C. Michael Bailey
This quirky little recording offers a freshly-performed collection of Richard Rodgers compositions presented in a springtime nouvelle façon. Bassist/vocalist Leonhart provides this recording with a beautifully fresh sense of humor and novel invention. Multiple vocalists ply their respective wares on these Broadway gems. Notable tunes from the list of usual suspects include two ...
Doug Lawrence: Streetwise
by C. Michael Bailey
There is always more room for a good tenor-guitar-organ combo. Tenor saxophonist Doug Lawrence leads such a combo for his Alltribe debut. A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Lawrence has been performing since childhood. He currently leads the Doug Lawrence Orchestra and has recorded widely as a sideman and as a leader. For Streetwise, organist Dan ...
Mike Wade and the Jazz Mafia: The Broach Approach
by C. Michael Bailey
Trumpeter Mike Wade’s name is not exactly a household word, even by jazz standards. Yet he is the founder of three bands, each of which has a recorded legacy. The first is the acoustic Standard Time Quintet, which released Be Truthful on the J Curve label. The second is the electric Mike Wade Reality Band, which ...
Gene Harris: Gene Harris - Ballad Essentials
by C. Michael Bailey
Gene Harris had no peer as a blues pianist. Just as Fred Hersch is the king of ballads, Harris was the king of the blues. But let’s consider his ballad prowess: he recorded many, and some of his best are collected on Concord Jazz’s newest addition to the Ballad Essentials series. Harris manages to ...
Jay Klum: Home Cooking
by C. Michael Bailey
Home Cooking is a simple pleasure. After having listened to labelmate Doug Lawrence’s Streetwise, I was half expecting a little funky tome replete with organ, guitar and tenor—all that would go well with a title like Home Cooking. Instead, the home cooking here is that kind of food that is warm and familiar—comfortable. I was also ...
Jessica Williams: All Alone
by C. Michael Bailey
This time last year saw the debut release of West Coast pianist Jessica Williams for MAXJAZZ. This Side Up (2002), an exceptional standard trio offering, blew over the piano landscape like a nuclear tsunami, flattening all lesser offerings at the time. Williams's encyclopedic understanding of the many schools of jazz piano and the styles of those ...
Sonny Rollins: Way Out West
by C. Michael Bailey
Way Out West was Sonny Rollins’ first tenor saxophone-bass-drums recording. He would follow this with the trio recordings A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1999) and Freedom Suite (Riverside/OJC, 1991). Unlike the piano-less quartets of Gerry Mulligan, Rollins did not have a counterpoint foil, as did Mulligan did in Chet Baker and later Bob ...
Sir Roland Hanna: Everything I Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Roland Pembrooks Hanna was born on February 10, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan and passed away on November 13, 2002 at the age of 70. He began his professional career in 1958, when he joined Benny Goodman’s band for a concert in Belgium. He was conservatoire trained and provided his services to Sarah Vaughan, Al Hibbler, ...
Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness
by C. Michael Bailey
Classical mythology is not the only place where the gods converse. Two of them readily communicate, using the universal language of the blues, for twelve-plus minutes on “Tenor Madness." Touted as the only recorded duet between the tenor titans of the ‘50s and ‘60s, the selection “Tenor Madness" represents the purity of improvisation, jazz and the ...
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