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Eric Schultz Space and Time Ensemble: Eric Schultz Space and Time Ensemble
by C. Michael Bailey
Ornette Coleman's legacy is alive and well and living in France. Los Angles guitarist Eric Schultz, jazz schooled in jam sessions at the renown Maiden Voyage Club (home of several notable live recordings of Art Pepper late in his career) left for Paris in 1985 for a six month sabbatical to “delve into a new musical ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by C. Michael Bailey
Mark Elf breaks new ground on his Jen Bay studio follow-up to Live at Smalls. New York plectrist Mark Elf has been producing solid, bop-oriented music on his Jen Bay Records for the past 13 years. His playing style can be described as spherical. His tone is roundly polished and his playing is deliberately cyclical. His ...
Charles Mingus: The Very Best of Charles Mingus: The Atlantic Years
by C. Michael Bailey
Charles Mingus never ceases to amaze, even 20 years after his death. As part of their ambitious Atlantic re-issue program, Rhino Records squirts out a “Very Best of..." collection of Charles Mingus from his years with the label (1950s and 1960s). That is a pretty tall order. Mingus in many ways is as big as Ellington. ...
Jim Nolet: Arco Vos
by C. Michael Bailey
Jim Nolet finds himself in a decidedly Bossa-Nova Mood on this new Cathexis release. Syzygy, Jim Nolet's previous Cathexis release, was a cyber cross between Nicolo Paganini and John Coltrane (the latter's “Central Park West" and “Countdown" being creatively covered by Nolet and his crack band. It was highly virtuosic and smacked of superb technique and ...
Virginia Mayhew: No Walls
by C. Michael Bailey
Lee Morgan blowing out of the bell of a Tenor saxophone. this disc is what you would think Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers would sound like had that great musician not passed on. This is a progressive Hard Bop delight from Saxophonist Virginia Mayhew on her follow-up to Nini Green. The set opens with a jaunty original ...
Juan Manuel: Reunion 2000
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist Juan Manuel follows up Liberation with a new collection of original compositions further delving into the Latin sensibilities in music. Juan Manuel epitomizes smooth, Latin-tinged contemporary jazz. His debut, Liberation, established the classically-trained guitarist as a heavy hitter in the realm of Latin Jazz. It contained all original compositions that smacked of swing and sly ...
Joyce DiCamillo Trio: Sunrise Lady
by C. Michael Bailey
Joyce DiCamillo and her working trio wax another provocative collection of standards from over the rainbow. Piano trio discs are nice in that the listener is treated to stripped-down, atomic versions of standards where they might see the skeleton of a classic tune. Joyce DiCamillo and her trio give airy, orchestral readings of a series of ...
Larry Vuckovich: Young At Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Larry Vuckovich and friends provides a heartfelt tribute to Lester Young, Count Basie, and Charlie Parker. This sextet sounds and swings like a big band, reminding me of Basie's Kansas City Seven. The two-tenor front of Jules Broussard and Noel Jewkes provides a riffing wall of sound that possesses a powerful momentum as Vuckovich steers ...
Mark Isaacs: Closer
by C. Michael Bailey
Naxos Jazz releases an exceptional contemporary jazz disc in Mark Isaacs' Closer. This disc joins the critic's short list of the best Naxos Jazz releases. It has been easy for me to grow complacent when hearing new Naxos Jazz releases. As a rule, they have all proven interesting and listenable and very representative of the current ...
Steve Barta: Blue River
by C. Michael Bailey
Steve Barta lands squarely on the Jazz radar with this acclaimed collaboration with Herbie Mann. I met Steve Barta this past Holiday Season. He was demonstrating his most recent self- produced release The Twelve Days of Christmas (previously reviewed in these pages). Barta was joined by the esteemed flautist, Herbie Mann ...
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