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Trout Fishing in America: Closer to the Truth
by C. Michael Bailey
Music of sweetness and light, with a beautiful sense of humor. Trout Fishing in America is a local band stationed in North Arkansas that has been a fixture on the Arkansas music circuit for the past 20 years. Their name, of course, is from a book by '70s writer Richard Brautigan. Comprised fundamentally of Ezra Idlet: ...
The Gordon Beck Quartet / Gary Husband: Experiments with POP / The Things I See
by C. Michael Bailey
The wares of a new independent jazz label. I was not holding out much hope for these recordings. I had just listened to and reviewed Bobby Timmons— Quartets and Orchestra (Milestone 47091), which included some jazz treatments of late 1960s pop songs that did not completely work. In that case, I felt that the effort to ...
Engelbert Wrobel, Frank Roberscheuten, and Chris Hopkins: Jammin' At The IAJRC Connection Hamburg 1999
by C. Michael Bailey
Creation in situ . This is the beauty of Jazz. As if from a dream, a multinational collection of musicians gather on the neutral ground of an international convention and are asked, on short notice to prepare and play a program. This particular group of musicians was to first meet on the bandstand. During a 15 ...
Dexter Gordon: LTD: Live At the Left Bank
by C. Michael Bailey
Long Tall Dexter in Baltimore, circa 1969.The most telling thing about this disc is a political one. Inside the liner notes, in small print, are the words. “Special Thanks to Joel Dorn." Indeed, special thanks. Dorn has based his new company, Label M, on about 300 performances he negotiated away from Baltimore's Left Bank ...
Russ Bryant: Never Assume
by C. Michael Bailey
More new music from Louisiana. But do not mistake this for Zydeco, no. Mainstream jazz is alive and well and living in Louisiana. My mailbox has been populated as of late with a number of good recordings from artists that, in one way or another, have a connection to Dr. Alvin Batiste, famed clarinetist and professor ...
The Allman Brothers Band: Peakin' at the Beacon
by C. Michael Bailey
Everything is right...and wrong with the latest Allman Brothers Band release. This is likely to be the last new release of an Allman Brother's recording with founding member Richard Betts in tow. Betts was unceremoniously fired from the band earlier this year, prompting this critic to wonder how the founding member of a band can be ...
Bobby Timmons: Quartet and Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
The good, the bad, and the ugly. It would be so easy to dismiss this release as a collection of the painfully anemic efforts of a jazz giant trying to make the best of the late '60s jazz nadir using the vastly inferior popular music of the day as “the new standard". This seems to be ...
Art Pepper: Renascence
by C. Michael Bailey
More Live Pepper. The last ten years has seen a significant trickle of previously unissued or limited issued Art Pepper live music. The most recent include:Tokyo Debut (Galaxy 4201, 1989)Art Pepper with Duke Jordan in Copenhagen 1981 (Galaxy 8201, 1981)Art 'N Zoot (Pablo 2310, 1995) Now showing up is Renascence, a recording made at the famous ...
Ron Carter and Jim Hall: Telepathy
by C. Michael Bailey
Duo music as important as that of Haydn and Mozart. Telepathy is the union on compact disc of two Ron Carter/Jim Hall live collaborations. Live at the Village Gate (Concord 4245, 1984) comprises the first disc of this two-disc set, while Telephone (Concord 4270, 1985) comprises the second. Collectively, Telepathy offers a seamless look a to ...
Art Pepper: The Hollywood All-Star Sessions
by C. Michael Bailey
Just when the jazz community believes no more gold can be mined from the archives of the titan altoist Art Pepper, a mother lode is released. First of all, a thumbnail sketch. Art Pepper emerged in the late 1940s as a formidable foil to the supremacy of Charlie Parker in the alto saxophone arena. After playing ...
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