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Six Drumsets: Simmer
by C. Michael Bailey
Simmer is very much an acquired taste, all percussion, all of the time. As it turns out, Simmer is Six Drumsets second release, the first being a self-titled effort. As their moniker reveals, Six Drumsets are exactly that, six drummers. This collection of drummers is very international and all are conservatory trained. All have impressive work ...
Fats Waller: The 1935 Transcriptions
by C. Michael Bailey
Ain't Misbehavin'... Born in Waverley, New York in 1904, raised in Harlem, and schooled by his mother, James P. Johnson, Karl Bohm, and Leopold Godowsky, Thomas “Fats" Waller would have been a giant in American music history without his happy gargantuan personality. A personality, in fact, so big, that his showmanship has often overshadowed his considerable ...
Hellborg / Lane / Sipe: Personae
by C. Michael Bailey
Caution! This is not the same Jazz Your Parents listened to. In the mid-1970s, Jeff Beck ruled the world with Blow by Blow and Wired. These two hard fusion recitals went a long way to completing what Miles has started and Return to Forever and Weather Report perfected. Now, if one were to take that musical ...
Mike LeDonne: Bags Groove (A Tribute to Milt Jackson)
by C. Michael Bailey
Bags...in all his glory... Intermediate-sized jazz bands have always been interesting. Miles Davis' 1949 Birth of the Cool Nonette set the stage for all “little-big" bands. Pianist Mike LeDonne's tribute to Milt Jackson, Bags Groove, is performed in this same vein. Ledonne assembles a swinging little octet that effectively takes Jackson's better known compositions and pieces ...
Mike Phineas Newborn, Jr.: The Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn / Phineas' Rainbow
by C. Michael Bailey
Phineas, we hardly knew ye... Whiteville, Tennessee native Phineas Newborn, Jr. swam in a pool of mental and physical challenges most of his professional life. Between the mid-1950s and the mid-'70s, Newborn was to bob to the surface to produce one masterpiece after another. Technically brilliant, Newborn was probably a bit closer to the aesthetic of ...
Piffaro: Music From the Odhecaton
by C. Michael Bailey
Piffaro is a wind septet who specializes in playing Renaissance wind music in an historically informed fashion on period instruments. These instruments are not the standard fare we are used to hearing today. However, they are the precursors. Shawms, recorders, sackbuts, douçaines, and bagpipes all combine to form a type of peasant symphony. To date, Piffaro ...
Tim Lyddon: I've Traveled So Far
by C. Michael Bailey
What's not to like... With an engaging light-as-a-feather, block-chord touch, pianist Tim Lyddon spins out eight original and two standard compositions, all impeccably performed in the piano trio format.. A California-born current New Yorker, Lyddon employs his original compositions to express the art of the trio. He is not a blues player (at least on this ...
Joe Pass: The Joe Pass Trio Live At Donte's
by C. Michael Bailey
Urbane virtuosity Any discussion of Jazz guitar will usually lead with three names: Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, and Joe Pass. A native of New Brunswick, New Jersey, Pass performed in the swing bands of Tony Pastor and Charlie Barnett. He spent time in the army, took ten years off with a nagging heroin addiction and in ...
Hampton Hawes: The Sermon
by C. Michael Bailey
Grace under pressure... While the West Coast Jazz pianist are not was well known as their East Coast brothers. However, the West Coast did produce their share of fine pianists. Dolo Coker, Carl Perkins, and Gene Russell just to mention three. Perhaps the best of the West Coast bunch was Hampton Hawes, a sort of Bud ...
Louis Guarino, Jr.: Spiritual Awakenings
by C. Michael Bailey
Shhhh / Peaceful Spiritual Awakenings is the labor of love from New Haven CT trumpeter Louis Guarino, Jr. Mr. Guarino readily admits his influence by Miles Davis, as well as, Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard. But it is Mile the most in attendance here. Mr. Guarino has an omnivorous appetite for music and musical ...
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