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Mads Vinding Trio / Bob Brookmeyer & Mads Vinding: Daddio Don / Together
by C. Michael Bailey
Close Spaces. These two recordings find Scandinavian bassist Mads Vinding operating in the relatively close spaces of the jazz trio and duo. Vinding is a kind of Nordic George Mraz, playing with a rare full-throated and confident tone capable of providing the environment of a full rhythm section while in the absence of such. Vinding is ...
Hal Galper Quintet: Let's Call This That
by C. Michael Bailey
Blowing Session! Let's Call This That comes closer to the old Blue Note blowing sessions than any recording I have heard in a long time. First are the musicians. Veteran Hal Galper has assembled a crack band whose members have an obvious empathy for one another. Each is exciting and innovative in his own right. Trumpeter ...
The Woody Herman Orchestra, Directed By Frank Tiberi: Live In London at Ronnie Scott's
by C. Michael Bailey
Woody N' You! When I think of Woody Herman, I think of a legend in the shadows, a very prominent musician and band leader who, while he was recognized during his lifetime and after, did not receive the same attention, say, a Duke Ellington or a Benny Goodman did. Live In London at Ronnie Scott's is ...
Tina Marsh and the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (CO2): The Heaven Line / World Wide
by C. Michael Bailey
Much in the same way that the finest classical composers of the 20th Century have been Russian, some of the finest big band leaders and arrangers of the last 50 years have been women. There is plenty of evidence to back up this statement. I submit: Mary Lou Williams, Maria Schneider, Carla Bley, Toshiko Akyoshi, Melba ...
Sarah Jane Cion: Moon Song
by C. Michael Bailey
A New Face on Jazz. Sarah Jane Cion, the conservatory-trained (the New England Conservatory) phenomenon, was awarded First Place in the 1999 Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville Florida. From there she found her way into the arms of Naxos Jazz, which has now produced her first recording as a leader, Moon Song. She is ...
Rene Marie: How Can I Keep From Singing
by C. Michael Bailey
Back To The MAX. The new jazz label, MAXJAZZ, was formally founded with the release of the first four recordings in their “Vocal Series." These recordings included LaVerne Butler's Blues In The City, Carla Cook's It's All About Love (MXJ 106), Christine Hitt's You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (MXJ 107), and Asa Harris' ...
Joe Augustine: License to Groove
by C. Michael Bailey
Amalgham. Cross the Crusader's Joe Sample with Gene Harris and one gets veteran Joe Augustine. Augustine has haunted jazz for the past twenty years as a pianist and arranger for big bands and has recorded consistently since the early 1990s, mostly on Revere, Moulin D'or, and now 1210 records. License to Grove is Augustine's funky, modern ...
Bobby Watson and Tailor Made with the Tokyo Leader Big Band: Live At The "Someday" in Tokyo
by C. Michael Bailey
Alto Saxophonist Bobby Watson is showing up everywhere on RED these days. The last number of months have witnessed the release of Quiet As It's Kept (RED 123284) and the Jazz Tribe's The Next Step (RED 123285). Presently, Watson pops up with a very fine Japanese big band performing a sextet of Watson originals (excepting his ...
Ensemble InterContemporain: Luciano Berio: Sequenzas
by C. Michael Bailey
Mr. Astarita: Avant-Garde jazz may be considered in the same vein as much 20th Century postmodern classical music, a la Maurice Kagel and Luciano Berio. Both genres (if, indeed, they are different) boast a deliberate composition and/or improvisation providing a product of almost stream-of-consciousness sound. Knowing your interest in the avant-garde in jazz, I thought you ...
Don Friedman Quartet: Match Point
by C. Michael Bailey
A Pleasant Diversion. I often think that all music is good, but some of it is better. Match Point is well-conceived and performed collection of standards and originals assembled by journeyman pianist Don Friedman. Friedman is an old had having played with the West Coast likes of Dexter Gordon, Shorty Rogers, Chet Baker, and Buddy DeFranco ...
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