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Diane Hubka: Look No Further
by C. Michael Bailey
Skylark. Sweet-toned with considerable scat chops, Diane Hubka turns out and assertive collection of standards and vocalese on Look No Further. Ms. Hubka and friends swing with a gentle confidence, always maintaining a forward momentum. Ms. Hubka's voice requires no make-up. Her tone and approach are crystalline and precise. When she scats (as she does on ...
Phillip Manuel: Love Happened to Me
by C. Michael Bailey
MAXED OUT. Phillip Manuel enters the MAXJAZZ fray as the first male jazz vocalist in this sixth installment of the label's “Vocal Series". The previous releases, all critically welcomed, include LaVerne Butler's Blues in the City, Carla Cook's It's All About Love, Christine Hitt's You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To, Asa Harris All In ...
Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats / Ambassador Satch / Satchmo The Great
by C. Michael Bailey
Rumination. Gigabytes of criticism, consideration, and reconsideration have been expended on every note Louis Armstrong exhaled from his trumpet. I have nothing to add other than just the facts, ma'am. These three releases have be floated as a prelude to the release of the Complete Hot Fives and Sevens later this month. All of these discs ...
Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
by C. Michael Bailey
July 4, 2000, Little Rock, AR. Perpetuating a Myth. It was recently determined that Louis Armstrong's birthday is August 4, 1901. Armstrong himself is on record as stating his birthday as July 4, 1900. That would make today the centenary of Armstrong's birth. It seems appropriate to accept this bit of improvisation on his birth, as ...
Gregory Tardy: The Hidden Light
by C. Michael Bailey
Predjudice on the Shortfall. I tend to be fairly cautious when approaching recordings that are ostensibly spiritually or religiously conceived or motivated. I have found that Divine Inspiration does not always equate to listenable music. It is a sticky wicket to address spiritual inspiration with the music, but it is not a musician's personal motivation I ...
Lew Del Gatto / David Phillips and Free Dance: Katewalk / David Phillips and Freedance
by C. Michael Bailey
Diametrics. These two recent Naxos Jazz releases represent a study in contrasts. Katewalk is a tight, funky, driven affair while Freedance is, well, a Freedance! Del Gatto, a veteran of the Saturday Night Live band, takes a straight-ahead approach to his jazz. He employs Randy Brecker, Victor Lewis, and SNL band mate Steve Turre in his ...
Swingtime! / The Re-discovered Louis and Bix
by C. Michael Bailey
Archiving with a Difference. The German label Nagel Heyer is beginning to make a name for itself by documenting that rococo period in jazz between traditional and big band swing. My introduction to the label was the Terrie Richards Alden vocal release Voice With Heart (Nagel Heyer 048). I said in that review that, “In the ...
Javon Jackson, et al. / Joanne Brackeen: Thank You, Joe! / Popsicle Illusion
by C. Michael Bailey
Several Arkadia discs have made their way to my desk and two releases have finally floated to the top for my attention. Two very fine releases, I might add. Joe Henderson. Continuing their Grammy(r)-nominated Thank You... series, Arkadia serves up a tribute to the very much alive and recording Joe Henderson. Past Thank You... recordings have ...
Michal Urbaniak Quartet: Ask Me Now
by C. Michael Bailey
Be Bop Be Bop Be Bop Be Bop Be Bop Be Bop It was not so long ago that I was reviewing a Columbia re-release of Urbaniak's Fusion. That recording found the violinist very much in a Jimi Hendrix/Miles Davis electronic mood (appropriate for the early '70s). While a landmark recording, Fusion did not age well. ...
Ken and Harry Watters: Brothers II
by C. Michael Bailey
Rigorous Honesty!. Brothers II is the follow-up to brass masters Watters debut recording Brothers (Summit 234). The music performed in a word is mainstream, immediately accessible and listenable. This is not to say that the listener is not challenged...far from that. Beginning with the trumpet/trombone leadership sans reeds, this music demands the listener's attention. The effect ...
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