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Junior Mance: That Lovin' Feelin'
by C. Michael Bailey
The difficulty with pop culture... This release is reminiscent of a recent Bobby Timmons release by the Fantasy Group, Quartet and Orchestra . Both recordings tried to capitalize on these famous, blues-oriented jazz pianists playing popular songs of the day (e.g., the '60s and early '70s). In unfair retrospect, Timmons faired badly. On That Lovin' Feelin', ...
David Friesen and Jeff Gardner: Grace
by C. Michael Bailey
Duet... Small places, big faces...The smaller and more intimate the jazz combo becomes, the greater the musical distillation and exposure to the elements of the listener. It is always a high-wire act when jazz musicians reduce to a trio or less. The trio offers the bare minimum of a rhythm section of bass and drums and ...
Richard Todd: With a Twist
by C. Michael Bailey
Mellow... The French horn is no stranger to Jazz. Claude Thornhill used French horns in his 1940s big band where they made big impression of arranger Gil Evans. Evans then joined Miles Davis for his famous Nonet sides that made up The Birth of the Cool sessions. It has been a bit of a hard road ...
The Ray Brown Trio: Some of My Best Friends are...Guitarists
by C. Michael Bailey
Go Down, Moses... Some of My Best Friends are...Guitarists is the fifth in Ray Brown's series by the same name. Just for drill the others are: ... Piano Players (Telarc Jazz 83373, 1995) ... Sax Players (Telarc Jazz 83388, 1995) ... Singers (Telarc Jazz 83441, 1998) ... Trumpet Players (Telarc Jazz 83495, 2000)
Van Morrison: Down the Road
by C. Michael Bailey
A Ray Charles from Belfast... I used to wonder if there were any other artists like Ray Charles. Mr. Charles has made significant contributions to all of the flavors of popular music: the Blues, Jazz, Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Gospel, Country, and Rock & Roll. He made these contributions in a voice so distinct and ...
Bobby Watson: Live and Learn
by C. Michael Bailey
The finest alto saxophonist alive?? Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson scored an appointment as The William and Mary Grant/Missouri Professor of Jazz endowed chair at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He released a recording on City Light Records ( Old Friends--New Point ) and now he debuts on Palmetto with a new quintet ...
Don Friedman: Attila's Dreams
by C. Michael Bailey
Sixty-seven year old pianist Don Friedman has followed up his very fine 1999 recording, Match Point. Here we find the pianist with a new group and a new label. The music is of the same high quality as his previous recordings. A fixture on the West coast during the 1950s, Friedman performed with the likes of ...
Svend Asmussen: Still Fiddling
by C. Michael Bailey
The Danish Gypsy Soul of Svend Asmussen... Svend Asmussen is an 86-year-old Dane who has been sawing on his fiddle since the mid-1930s. Listening to Still Fiddling one would never know Asmussen was 86, but one would surmise he has 60 plus years of experience doing what he does. Asmussen has played and recorded with the ...
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: The Hard Game of Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Tradgrass... Using the politics of Be Bop as an analogy, if Nickel Creek are “beboppers" and the music they make sounds like “Chinese Music" then Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver are the “Moldy Figs." Lawson and his group have immersed themselves in white gospel music as of late to the point that the bluegrass community was beginning ...
Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band: Things to Come
by C. Michael Bailey
The Phoenix...out of the ashes of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band has been an active entity since 1998. Steered by Jon Faddis and John Lee, the band consists of musicians who played with John Birks Gillespie sometime during his 50 years of music making. Also under the Faddis tutelage ...
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