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Delbert McClinton: Nothing Personal
by C. Michael Bailey
Delbert McClinton returns to the studio for the first time in three years for a new label and serves up the same old thing—the most informed and honest bastard child of country music and blues one could hope for. I saw Delbert McClinton at the now defunct Little Roxy in Little Rock, Arkansas in the exceptionally ...
Pietro Condorelli: Quasimodo
by C. Michael Bailey
Italian jazz guitar form Sergio Veschi and his stable of local talent. Some music sounds absolutely effortless. Quasimodo is a collection of such music. The opener “No Blues" sounds as if the musicians picked up their instruments and began playing in mid-thought—all of them having the same thought at the same time. Pietro Condorelli's guitar style ...
Freddie Hubbard: Fastball
by C. Michael Bailey
More Live at the Left Bank from the Hard Bop Trumpeting Dream, Freddie Hubbard. Recorded April 23, 1967, this Freddie Hubbard recital offers an extended look at the trumpet wunderkind during a recording transitional period. Hubbard was just following his recording for Blue Note (with The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vols. ...
Martin Sasse Trio: Here We Come
by C. Michael Bailey
Trio Art from Hamburg. Could it be that the enormous shoes left empty by the recent death of pianist Gene Harris are going to be at least partially filled? After listening to Martin Sasse's “Groove Machine", Here We Come, one would have to think so. Sasse's first date as a leader, Here We Come, provides a ...
Sonny Landreth: Levee Town
by C. Michael Bailey
For slide guitar enthusiasts, it doesn't get any better than this. It is interesting that the finest slide guitarist playing would use a Louisiana Zydeco fare to display his considerable talent rather than its Mississippi cousin, the Blues, but that is exactly what Sonny Landreth does. In the same way that Jimi Hendrix goosed the evolution ...
The Winners: Live at the Dolder Grand Hotel, Zurich
by C. Michael Bailey
A humble little recording that absolutely burns so bright the listener must hide his eyes. The Montreux Jazz Label has made a name for itself in releasing solid, straight ahead jazz. Live at the Dolder Grand Hotel, Zurich is no exception. This release quietly allows Swiss trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti and his cohorts to produce Jazz firmly ...
Rebecca Parris: My Foolish Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Rebecca Parris gives a masters class in singing ballads very slow and very well. Miles Davis once heard Shirley Horn perform a ballad that had been in his band's book for many years. He said in that sandpaper voice of his, “Man, you sing that so slow." On My Foolish Heart, ...
UMO Jazz Orchestra: Transit People
by C. Michael Bailey
The spirit of John Coltrane shines brightly through the UMO Jazz Orchestra. The UMO Jazz orchestra made their Naxos Jazz debut among the first six releases from the new label in 1998 with their self-titled disc ( UMO Orchestra, Naxos Jazz 86010). The orchestra performed a bright progressive type of big band jazz that listeners have ...
Chuck Zeuren: Why Not??
by C. Michael Bailey
Fast and sleek neo-bop from Italy. Slickly, craggy and Wayne Shorter and Lee Morganesque is how to describe drummer Chuck Zeuren's new sextet recording, Why Not??. Zeuren lays down the underpinning for the Trumpet-Tenor front of Shunzo Ono and Dave Finucane, respectively, and never lets up. The playing is upbeat and solid, even on ballads like ...
Ken Watters Group: Southern Exposure
by C. Michael Bailey
Sans Brother Harry, Trumpeter Ken Watters steps out with his working quartet and burns his way through a collection of originals, standards, and some surprises. After two recordings with trombonist brother Harry, Trumpeter Ken Watters brings his working quartet into the studio, where he produces his strongest musical statement yet. The previous Watters' offerings, Brothers (Summit ...
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