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Byron Stripling: If I Could Be With You: Byron Stripling and Friends Play Louis Armstrong
by C. Michael Bailey
Satch's 100th. The music on this disc has been mined from two previous Nagel-Heyer releases: We Love You Louis! -- The New York All-stars Play The Music Of Louis Armstrong (N-H 029) and Oh, Yeah-- The New York All-stars Play The Music Of Louis Armstrong (N-H 046). Both discs document live recordings made the Congress Centrum ...
David Glasser/Clark Terry/Barry Harris Project: Uh! Oh!
by C. Michael Bailey
Uh! Oh! joins Wycliffe Gordon's Slidin' Home (N-H 2001) and Byron Stripling's StriplingNow! as the third in the Nagel-Heyer 2000 series of contemporary mainstream jazz. Known principally for documenting the traditional mainstream of Louis Armstrong, the Hamburg-based Nagel-Heyer spreads its considerable wings with this series. Uh! Oh! is the most fully realized contemporary offering to date ...
Ricky Ford: [Balaena]
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by C. Michael Bailey
Heldentenor Veteran Tenorist Rick Ford debuts of Jazz Friends with a solid live set supported by a truly all-star rhythm section of George Cables; Cecil McBee, and Ed Thigpen. This release is made up of mostly extended pieces where Ford shows his depth and breadth form Dexter Gordon passing through Sonny Rollins on his way to ...
Gay Pearson: Alone, Independent and Unresolved
by C. Michael Bailey
Composer/Arranger. I was first introduced to Gay Pearson with her svelte string sextet arrangement of “Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" on Tyrone Brown's Song of the Sun. That is actually a reprise on an arrangement of the same piece for Pearson's own release, Alone, Independent and Unresolved. Both arrangements are quite excellent, as is the ...
George Masso Sextet: C'est Magnifique!
by C. Michael Bailey
Got a Call on the 'Bone Phone. George Masso may be the Harry Allen of the trombone, only older. Born in 1927, Masso made his living teaching school and playing trombone on the side. In 1973, he managed to become a full-time musician recording for the Arbors, Sackville, Famous Door, and Nagel-Heyer labels. Masso has had ...
David Davidson: Celtic Fantasy
by C. Michael Bailey
Angela's Ashes. I am frightfully ignorant of what currently called “Celtic" or “Traditional Irish" music. This ignorance has led me to invest in some truly horrible recordings. It never seems that I can find exactly what I am looking for. Add to this that “Celtic" or “Traditional Irish" music may be totally different genre's, but in ...
Harry Allen Quartet / Dave Murray Octet: The King / Octet Plays Trane
by C. Michael Bailey
A Tale of Two Tenors. I have been trying to determine what these two releases have in common. Damn little I finally decided... with the exception that they are both tenor-led dates. I have been listening to them together and decided to write about them together. I figured that the juxtaposition of the two would elicit ...
Tierney Sutton: Unsung Heroes
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalese. The mellow personalities of the guitar flugelhorn, and trombone, coupled wish the breathy piping of an alto/soprano voice combine to make Unsung Heroes a very cool proposition. Several primarily vocalese discs have found their way to me recently, all sporting accomplished, even incendiary, vocal challenges met. I would not describe Tierney Sutton's voice as such. ...
Ugetsu: Cape Town Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Jujitsu Music. The band name comes from an Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recording (Original Jazz Classics 90). I got that from the liner notes after I had listened to the disc. I originally noted that Ugetsu’s lineup was identical to that the 60s Messengers with a tenor-trumpet-trombone front. The tone of Cape Town Blues ...
Florian Ross Brass Project: Lilacs and Laughter
by C. Michael Bailey
Fixtures. Florian Ross has shown up as leader on three Naxos Jazz releases. The two previous to this one are the Florian Ross Quintet Seasons and Places (86029) and Florian Ross Suite for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra (86037). Florian Ross’ musical conception is as broad as that of Uri Caine who has most recently been ...
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