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René Marie: Vertigo
by C. Michael Bailey
Ms. Marie serves up a release even more satisfying than her delectable debut How Can I Keep From Singing . Laverne Butler, Carla Cook, and now René Marie have all released their second recordings for the MaxJazz Vocal Series. Ms. Marie is following up her 2000 release How Can ...
Sarah Jane Cion: Summer Night
by C. Michael Bailey
Ms. Cion's follow up to Moon Song will not disappoint; she is a major dynamo in a quiet and lyrical sort of way. Sarah Jane Cion, the jazz pianist-composer, has a beautiful consistency about her. For her follow up to last year's well-received Moon Song, she has chosen another nocturnal title, Summer Night. Her compositions on ...
New York Jazz Collective: Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven
by C. Michael Bailey
What a difference a day...err four years make. I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry was the first Naxos Jazz recording I listened to some four years ago. Since that time the New York Jazz Collective has been pretty quiet as a group while several of its members have each been recording for the label. ...
Little Feat: Extended Versions: The Encore Collection
by C. Michael Bailey
Little Feat not exactly batting a thousand. Ain't Had Enough Fun (1995) and Live From Neon Park (1996) were two releases by the reunited Little Feat, sans Lowell George, released on Zoo Records. Zoo Records is a subsidiary of RCA, now a part of Bertelsmann, explaining the BMG Special Products Label gracing the Little Feat Extended ...
Eric Reed: Happiness
by C. Michael Bailey
When is a big band not a big band? Perhaps the more important question is “What difference does it make?" Happiness employs an octet or nonette (depending on the cut) that sounds like a big band. It is these intermediate sized combos that have always intrigued me with their graceful passage form small combo to big ...
James Blood Ulmer: Memphis Blood
by C. Michael Bailey
Memphis Blood could very possibly be as historic a recording as Howlin' Wolf's Evil . Everything about this release is Romantic. The music ranges from some of the earliest recorded blues for the 1920s to novelty tunes from the '50s and '60s. The recording venue is perhaps the most famous ever, the home of seminal recordings ...
Randy Dorman: No Boundaries
by C. Michael Bailey
Country journeyman Kenny Rogers' long-time guitarist Randy Dorman shows he has a smooth jazz jones. Randy Dorman is a session player's session player. Over the past twenty years he has performed with the biggest names in Country Music, including Ray Charles (yes, Brother Ray), Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Faith Hill, just ...
Joey DeFrancesco / Tony Monaco Trio: Singin' and Swingin' / Burning Grooves
by C. Michael Bailey
The Hammond B-3 Organ— New and Newer. The temptation not to couple these two discs in a single review perished when reviewing the musician's credits. Both of these Hammond B-3 releases have one big thing in common: Joey DeFrancesco and his regular rhythm. But, Mr. DeFrancesco does not lead both of these releases. Complicated? No, not ...
Sarah Jane Cion: Summer Night
by C. Michael Bailey
Ms. Cion's follow up to Moon Song will not disappoint; she is a major dynamo in a quiet and lyrical sort of way. Sarah Jane Cion, the jazz pianist-composer, has a beautiful consistency about her. For her follow up to last year's well-received Moon Song, she has chosen another nocturnal title, Summer Night. Her compositions on ...
Warren Vache: 2gether
by C. Michael Bailey
Close intimacy. There have been many memorable duet jazz recordings. Some that I would recommend to the listener are:Art Pepper and George Cables-- Tête-à-Tête (Galaxy 5147, 1982)Art Pepper and George Cables-- Going Home (Galaxy 5679, 1982)Archie Schepp and NHØP-- Goin' Home (Steeplechase 31079, 1994)Archie Schepp and NHØP-- Looking at ...
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