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Don Ellis: Live at Montreux
by C. Michael Bailey
Living and Dying in 7/8 time... Don Ellis no more gave a damn about the status quo in Jazz than the man in the moon did. He was not so much an iconoclast as a creative, happy-go-lucky creator of interesting music who was not so much out to make a point as to try something new ...
Various Artists: A Great Night In Harlem
by C. Michael Bailey
Mixed Blessings—Mixed Feelings Recordings like A Great Night In Harlem tend to have the parts greater than the sum. Performed and recorded to benefit The Jazz Musician’s Emergency Fund, A Great Night contains some very great moments. Central to the collection is Cassandra Wilson’s 10-minute take on the Son House opus, “Death Letter." Beautifully rendered with ...
Kermit Ruffins: Big Easy
by C. Michael Bailey
In the Vernacular... Big Easy offers a couple of surprises but for the most part is the status quo (and a fine one at that) of what we have come to expect from Kermit Ruffins. A homegrown product of New Orleans, Ruffins represents the local journeyman musician in a town full of journeyman musicians. Ruffins is ...
Alexandra Youth Choir: South African Choral
by C. Michael Bailey
This is not Ladysmith Black Mambazo... South African Choral—Songs of the Alexandra Youth Choir is raw milk when compared to the homogenized product offered by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. From the outset, the most striking comparison is that the Alexandra Youth Choir is to Ladysmith Black Mambazo as Muddy Water was to B.B. King. That is each ...
Jimmy Thackery and Tab Benoit: Whiskey Store
by C. Michael Bailey
A smokin’ set from two of the contemporary best... This disc has everything going for it. There is Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section, Double Trouble. Then, there is that ace harmonica player from Kosciusko, Mississippi, Charlie Musselwhite. And that finally brings us to the two principles, Tab Benoit and James Thackery. The former is a 35 ...
Little Feat: Raw Tomatos, Volume 1 & Ripe Tomatos, Volume 1
by C. Michael Bailey
It Has Been a Good Century for Little Feat Since the turn of the new century, record stores have been treated to a variety of previously unreleased live Little Feat. This music has taken the form of the quasi-bootleg Pilot release, Late Night Truck Stop , the newly rejuvenated Waiting for Columbus (in this humble critics ...
Conte Candoli: Candoli Live at Birdland Neuburg
by C. Michael Bailey
Don’t forget the Candoli... Secundo “Conte" Candoli (1927—2001) probably appeared as a sideman on twenty times the recordings he made as a leader. A member of Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd as well as Stan Kenton’s Orchestra, Candoli broke out to become one of the most sought after trumpeters recording. His resume supports this. He spent the ...
Donald Harrison: Real Life Stories
by C. Michael Bailey
Nouveau Swing... Alto saxophonist Donald Harrison is all about dance. It is danceable rhythms that fuel his nouveau swing vision of jazz. Not necessarily Latin in texture, the rhythm is at once angular and smooth—a musical dichotomy. The 42-year-old New Orleans native has been recording since the mid 1980s and has produced a solid track record ...
Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day
by C. Michael Bailey
Dusk was only the beginning to this part of the story...I cannot listen to Andrew Hill’s new big band recording without thinking of him and his band as a relatively well-behaved Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Big Band. Of course, that horribly shortchanges the 65 year-old Chicago native who’s Palmetto debut, Dusk, was considered ...
Art Pepper and The Hollywood Allstars: Art Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Here is the sampler (and a fine one at that) from the box set... From 1979 until his death in 1982, alto saxophonist Art Pepper, while still under contract to Galaxy, recorded for the small Japanese concern, Atlas, overtly as a sideman on a series of “All-Star" sessions, featuring a number of prominent West Coast musicians. ...
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