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The Art Farmer Quartet: ARTistry
by C. Michael Bailey
If the listener is hunting for a clinic on the flugelhorn, look no further. Art Farmer, along with Clark Terry, might be the greatest exponent of the flugelhorn of the past two decades. Though a founder and leader (with Benny Golson) of the widely influential Jazztet, Farmer often found himself in the critical background. Fortunately, this ...
Avery Sharpe and John Blake Duo: Epic Ebony Journey
by C. Michael Bailey
The Jazz Violin Recast. There is a powerful earthy ambience to bass/violin duet environment of Epic Ebony Journey. Bassist Avery Sharpe provides thick, pulsing chords beneath the humid flight of John Blake's violin. This landscape is best detected in the disc's closer, the Isham Jones standard, “There is No Greater Love". Here Sharpe lays out the ...
Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band: Europe
by C. Michael Bailey
Paul Motian found his soul mate in Stephan Winter. Paul Motian has been the integrated center of several prominent piano trios between 1955 and 1977, including those lead by Bill Evans (with Scott LaFaro), Paul Bley, and Keith Jarrett. Striking out on his own in the late '70s, Motian began the Electric Bebop Band, originally with ...
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Mambo No. 5
by C. Michael Bailey
The Ghost of Segovia with a Chianti buzz. The 56-year-old Carlos Barbosa-Lima is a Brazilian national treasure. He has performed and recorded widely the music of this homeland and that of the American Tin Pan Alley. Barbosa-Lima studied under Andres Segovia and Isaias Savio as a child and had his debut at 12 years old. His ...
Gordon Brisker Quintet: My Son John
by C. Michael Bailey
The West Coast Brisker's Second Outing for Naxos Jazz. Gordon Brisker's first Naxos Jazz release, the inaugural shot for the label— The Gift (Naxos Jazz 86001, 1998) was a superb straight-ahead example of West Coast Post Bop. The present My Son John extends that sound, mostly thanks to the presence of musician and impresario Mike Nock. ...
Gary Burton and Stephane Grappelli: Paris Encounter
by C. Michael Bailey
The old guard meets the new. Here is the phenomenon Gary Burton, before he became an institution. In 1969, Gary Burton was blazing jazz trails that could not exactly be described as traditional. He teams up with Le Hot Club of France Stephane Grappelli, conservative stalwart in the European tradition, for a little stroll around the ...
Billy Cobham: Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology
by C. Michael Bailey
Loud and Proud. Rudiments: the Billy Cobham Anthology is a representative collection of songs associated with drummer-composer-bandleader-producer Billy Cobham assembled from the highlights of eight Atlantic releases between 1973 and 1978. This was a particularly fruitful time for Cobham that saw the percussionist recording with the likes of the late Tommy Bolin, Jan Hammer, George Duke, ...
Kermit Ruffins: The Barbecue Swingers Live / Swing This / 1533 St. Philip Street
by C. Michael Bailey
Channeling the free spirit of Satchmo. New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins has kept his light under a basket. On the scene since his membership in the Rebirth Brass Band in the early 1990s, Ruffins struck out on his own with the first of three solo outings on Justice Records, World on a String (1992). Ruffins followed ...
The Les DeMerle Band: You're The Bop: A Jazz Portrait of Cole Porter
by C. Michael Bailey
A small band with a very large band sound. Skip right to the last track, “Love for Sale". This is a drum-voice duet between DeMerle and Eisele. It is stunning. Eisele's time is as perfect her empathy with the drummer DeMerle. This reading is as effective as the same vehicle used by Mary Pearson ...
Karrin Allyson: Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane
by C. Michael Bailey
I am listening to The John Coltrane Quartet's Ballads as I write this piece. I have never considered Coltrane a player of “pretty music." Where Charlie Parker was “just looking for the pretty notes" during his frenetic creative spurts, Coltrane was just planning to look for a place for all notes, presented in just the right ...
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