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Bud Powell: Bud Powell: The Paris Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Not Bad Late Bud Powell... Bud Powell’s great French benefactor Francis Paudras accumulated, self-recorded, and released a good bit of live Powell after the pianist’s expatriation to Paris in 1959. It is from this collection that The Paris Sessions is assembled. The recordings were made between 1957 and 1964, two years before the pianist’s unfortunate death ...
Paquito D'Rivera: Brazilian Dreams
by C. Michael Bailey
Jobim, anyone...? Since 1987, The Manchester Craftsman’s Guild has been instrumental in bringing high quality jazz performance to the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. Through these performances MCG Jazz was created to promote and document jazz performance at the Manchester Craftsman’s Guild. The archives of MCG Jazz contain some 300 CDs worth of performances ...
Nickel Creek: This Side
by C. Michael Bailey
Bluegrass wunderkinder return with a much different take on bluegrass. Nickel Creek’s newest release, This Side, is a definite extension of their self-titled first recording and Chris Thile’s and Sean Watkin’s most recent recordings ( Not All Who Wander Are Lost and Let It Fall, respectively). This Side boasts plenty of the trio’s trademark acoustic magic ...
Charles Fambrough: Live @ Zanzibar Blue
by C. Michael Bailey
Great Venue, Great Jazz First, a few words about the venue... Zanzibar Blue is located in the Bellevue at the corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in Center City Philadelphia. It is one of the three or four really great jazz clubs in a city full of great jazz haunts. The Blue is a dark and ...
Bennie Wallace: Bennie Wallace in Berlin
by C. Michael Bailey
Bennie Wallace, we are glad you are back from Hollywood... I whole-heartedly agree with magazine-mate Glenn Astarita in his summation of Bennie Wallace’s new Enja recording Bennie Wallace in Berlin, when he states that “Bennie Wallace is irrefutably one of the finest tenor saxophonists alive." I am a relative late comer to Mr. Wallace’s music. I ...
Hector "Costita" Bisignani: Estao Todos Al
by C. Michael Bailey
A Really Pleasant Surprise Saxophonist Hector Bisignani has most recently worked with percussionist Luis Agudo on the Red Records roster. His recording Estao Todos Al turns out to be the biggest and most pleasant listening experience of the year. Based on this, what I was expecting was a percussion heavy Latin orgy. What I got was ...
Al Di Meola: Flesh on Flesh
by C. Michael Bailey
Virtuosity Al Di Meola has successfully meandered through Fusion as the wunderkind guitarist for Return to Forever, as fellow guitar god with John McLaughlin, and a long journey through acoustic would music. His releases have become progressively more plushly produced and engineered to the point that every release is digital perfection. In spite of this impressive, ...
George Masso & Ken Peplowski: Just Friends
by C. Michael Bailey
Talkin' on the 'Bone Phone to the Stubborn Old Lady... Recorded at the Amerika Haus in Hamburg, Just Friends represents the standard jazz fare that the German label Nagel Heyer has come to be known for. This present concert highlights traditional stalwarts George Masso and Ken Peplowski performing chestnuts from the Great American Songbook. There is ...
Andr: Bahamian Ballads: The Songs of Andr
by C. Michael Bailey
Citrus and Rum... Haitian native André Toussaint abandoned Papa Doc for the sunny shores of Nassau, The Bahamas and forged a successful career in the 1950s and '60s as a lounge singer of native calypso music, much of which he composed. on this collection. Toussaint's music was considered particularly refined, differing dramatically from the Goombay and ...
Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy Hargrove: Directions in Music: Celebrating Miles Davis and John Coltrane
by C. Michael Bailey
Herbie and Wayne... Wayne and Herbie... Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter are two of the dwindling number of true giants of Jazz. Any new release by them should be greeted with interest if not wonder. In this odd Summer of 2002, both men have released live recordings using an acoustic format with the same ...
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