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George Shearing (Koch Jazz: The Heart and Soul of Joe Williams and George Shearing / Out of this World
by C. Michael Bailey
Title:The Heart and Soul of Joe Williams and George Shearing / Out of this World Year:2001 Artist Name:George Shearing Record Label:Koch Jazz (51001 / 51002) Genre:Mainstream Koch Jazz's George Shearing Collector's Series. Hailing from London, George Shearing has been making music for the past six decades. He has been on hand for the development of Jazz ...
David Sills: Bigs
by C. Michael Bailey
David Sills is back and Getzian as ever, with a bit of Monk thrown in. I considered David Sills debut on Naxos Jazz, Journey Together , to be one of the finest sessions released by that label since its inception. He had a definite Getzian lilt with a pretty large helping of Lester Young added to ...
Byron Stripling: Byron, Get One Free
by C. Michael Bailey
Byron Stripling accepts the mantle of Louis Armstrong. Everything about Byron Stripling is good-natured. His trumpet playing is clearly understandable, fluent, and deeply influenced by Louis Armstrong. His singing is engaging and original while tipping its hat to Pops also. His two previous recordings, the 2000 Series initiating Striplingnow! (Nagel Heyer 2002) and his fully-assembled Satchmo ...
Terrie Richards Alden/Howard Alden: Love
by C. Michael Bailey
Terrie Alden's super follow up to Voice With Heart . Warren Vaché and Bill Charlap produced a beautifully intimate duet recording in 2Gether (Nagel Heyer). At the time, I thought this collaboration would be hard to top, but topped it was and on the same record label to boot. Terrie Richards Alden and her guitarist husband ...
Pekka Pylkk: Opaque
by C. Michael Bailey
More contemporary jazz from Pekka's Tube Factory. Pekka's Tube Factory (Naxos Jazz 86028) was released in 1999. It was one of the first contemporary jazz releases by the then brand new label. Now Pekka Pylkkänen is back with another notable collection of razor sharp contemporary jazz. Pylkkänen, once again, blows through his variety of winds on ...
Leon Russell: Signature Songs / Guitar Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Leon Russell is an American National Treasure. He should be protected at all costs. Leon Russell entered my consciousness when I saw the movie and later purchased the soundtrack for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. He was this larger-than-life figure, acting as sidekick to the great white Ray Charles. Russell had an immediately identifiable piano ...
Rodney Jones: Soul Manifesto
by C. Michael Bailey
You've got to funkafize... Guitarist Rodney Jones departs from the mainstream fare of his most recent recordings ( The Undiscovered Few, Blue Note 96902, 1999 and My Funny Valentine, Timeless 162, 2000) and testifies his funk philosophy on Soul Manifesto. Joined by Funk/R&B specialists Maceo Parker, Arthur Blythe, and Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jones weaves a hypnotic ...
Stephane Grappelli: Stephane's Tune / Vintage Grappelli
by C. Michael Bailey
Stephane Grappelli— then and ... then. These two collections serve as very nice bookends to a jazz violin career that spanned almost 70 years. Stephane Grappelli was born in Paris in 1908. Largely self-taught on the violin and piano, Grappelli studied briefly at the Paris Conservatoire before meeting the gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— Charlie Parker to ...
Allan Harris: The Songs of Strayhorn
by C. Michael Bailey
This writer finally gets Strayhorn. Tony Bennett considers Allan Harris to be his favorite vocalist. That is almost as profound as Frank Sinatra considering Tony Bennett his favorite vocalist. Mr. Bennett heaps no faint praise on Mr. Harris. Allan Harris is a very accomplished vocalist devoid of all of the barking and groaning afflicting many young ...
The Word: The Word
by C. Michael Bailey
Does the listener want something a little bit different? Well, Brother, here it is. Sacred Steel is a brand of gospel music played on a pedal steel guitar. It is a little known musical tradition that had its beginnings in the 1930s in the Church of God, an African-American Pentecostal denomination, found in Jamaica and the ...
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