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Various Artists: The Legacy Lives On
by C. Michael Bailey
Former Crusaders drummer Stix Hooper assembles a starlight cast of characters for a stroll through some unlikely standards. This collaborative release is interesting for what is missing— war-horse standards. The standards that are here are tastefully “different" from the standard fare (pardon the pun). Former Crusader's drummer Stix Hooper assembled this wild bunch for two discs ...
Righteous Buddha: Black, Blue & Bamboo
by C. Michael Bailey
Righteous Buddha is an organ trio of Louisiana natives that produces a brand of funk jazz that is a bit hard to define. One simile might be if you took Sly Stone's brain and transplanted it into Jimmy Smith's head you would have Righteous Buddha. Or, Righteous Buddha might be considered the love child of MM&W ...
Baecastuff: Out of This World
by C. Michael Bailey
Aussie Baecastuff debuts on Naxos Jazz with an Eastern-influenced extravaganza. Baecastuff, named for an indigenous Australian tobacco bush, is an Aussie sextet that believes in the wide-open electric/acoustic sound of Miles' In a Silent Way. Matt McMahon's Fender Rhodes peppers the soundscape in a way that reminds me of Keith Jarrett during his Miles tenure. Phillip ...
Fran: Compassion
by C. Michael Bailey
French Canada has a new standard bearer in Free Jazz. François Carrier's alto saxophone weaves its way through the title track in the same way John Coltrane's tenor passed through A Love Supreme. Steve Amirault's piano accents the composition as McCoy Tyner did for Coltrane. Carrier's music on Compassion is firmly grounded in the Love Supreme ...
The Capital Quartet: Anything Goes
by C. Michael Bailey
Saxophone Chamber Quartet music with twist after twist. This is NOT the World Saxophone Quartet. Those listeners who are looking for that brand of probing, on-the-edge chamber jazz need not read further. However, if the listener is looking for a well behaved and totally enjoyable light music experience, the Capitol Quartet's Anything Goes fills the prescription. ...
Curtis Stigers: Baby Plays Around
by C. Michael Bailey
A unique jazz voice from the frontier. Idaho native and Gene Harris Protégé Curtis Stigers has a voice that is the love child of Harry Connick, Jr. and Betty Carter. His delivery has a rough humor not to be taken too seriously, but serious enough for jazz art. On Baby Plays Around, Stigers basically sings the ...
Mary Stallings: Live At the Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
Veteran vocalist with Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, and The Count Basie Band steps out on her own into the spotlight of Jazz's most sacred club with an interesting set of Standards. In New York's most venerated jazz club, San Francisco native Mary Stallings fires her ten-gauge contralto at a dizzying array of the American Songbook, hitting ...
Carla Cook: Dem Bones
by C. Michael Bailey
Carla Cook follows up her Grammy-nominated It's all About Love with a slightly funkier fair...but only after some mainstream flirtations. Carla Cook's 1999 It's All About Love was one of the inaugural releases of the then fledgling MAXJAZZ label. It was honored with a Grammy® nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was an eclectic and ...
George Benson: Breezin'
by C. Michael Bailey
Maybe the big daddy of smooth jazz, George Benson's Breezin' reemerges as a great period piece and microscope lens focussed on the mid-1970s. Breezin' was the one of the first jazz recordings I purchased. The year was 1976 and I was a junior in high school. The LP (this was 1976, remember) struck me as being ...
Carla Cook: Dem Bones
by C. Michael Bailey
Carla Cook follows up her Grammy-nominated It's all About Love with a slightly funkier fair...but only after some mainstream flirtations. Carla Cook's 1999 It's All About Love was one of the inaugural releases of the then fledgling MAXJAZZ label. It was honored with a Grammy® nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It was an eclectic and ...
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