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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 ...
Little Feat: Hotcakes and Outtakes-- 30 Years of Little Feat
by C. Michael Bailey
The Synthetic Method of Little Feat made it the savior of American Music in the 1970s. Little Feat is America’s enigmatic icon. Their music immediately accessible and no one but the faithful managed to accept it. “Dixie Chicken”, a sardonic tome by genius Lowell George, was fully received by the redneck intelligentsia of as gospel, instead ...
Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings (1944
by C. Michael Bailey
On the heels of Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens Savoy releases another seminal chapter in the development of Jazz. If Louis Armstrong’s The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens can be seen as Moses’ contribution to the Old Testament, then certainly Charlie Parker’s mid 1940s recordings for Savoy and Dial can be seen as ...
Wycliffe Gordon: The Search / Uptown Lowdown
by C. Michael Bailey
Wycliffe Gordon accepts the trombone mantle from Al Grey and turns in his best performances to date. Just when I was prepared to anoint Uri Caine's Goldberg Variations the best disc to cross my path this year, Nagel-Heyer sends me their much-anticipated release by Wynton Marsalis-Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and additional discs containing performances by that same ...
Dick Wellstood: Dick Wellstood Live at Hanratty's
by C. Michael Bailey
Art, Oscar, Dave, and Dick.. Hmmmm. Dick Wellstood is popping up everywhere nearly 13 years after his unfortunate death. The Arbor release Dick Wellstood Live at the Sticky Wicket was selected as one of the best jazz recordings of the 1990s. Al White, in his book Jazz Party devotes several pages to the pianist. And now ...
Fabrizio Bosso: Fast Flight
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz Italian Style. Fabrizio Bosso turns in as exciting a Be Bop recital as an enthusiast could hope for. If anything, the title cut will remind the listener of “Dizzy's Atmosphere", only faster. Bosso's quintet is tight and precise, surveying standards that include Freddie Hubbard's brawny “Gibraltar" and Richard Rodger's tender “Too Young to Go Steady". ...
Art Music Ensemble: Look Both Ways
by C. Michael Bailey
Postmodern Musings. A couple of months ago, I reviewed Luciano Berio's complete Sequenzas on Deutsche Gramophone (part of DG's 21st Century Series). I noted there to be a valid comparison between certain Jazz genres (Free Jazz and Avant-garde) and Postmodern Classical Music. David Sherr and his Art Music Ensemble blur the line further with Look Both ...
Mark Elf: Mark Elf Live at Small's
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitar Slinger. Mark Elf last came my way with the very fine New York Cats in 1999. He returns with the equally strong Jen Bay release Live At Small's. On Live At Small's, Elf proves that he is a most excellent Bebop guitarist and that jazz is inherently best when played live. His recital is loose ...
Frank Vignola: Off Broadway
by C. Michael Bailey
The 2000 Series. No, this is not the 2000 World Series, handily won by the New York Yankees. This is the contemporary jazz series being produced by German Label Nagel-Heyer. When I say contemporary jazz, I mean that in the temporal sense. It is music being freshly composed and performed today. The majority of Nagel-Heyer's catalog ...
Trio Friedrich-Herbert-Moreno / Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Surfacing / Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
The Subatomic. Trio Friedrich-Herbert-Moreno music might best be compared to that of Mike Nock's Naxos Jazz trio recording, Not We But One. That is, it has a structured, free-wheeling sound pregnant with personality and panache. This is progressive trio music that should be considered with that of pianists Paul Bley and Uri Caine. All pieces, save ...
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