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Dylan Cramer: All Night Long
by C. Michael Bailey
Altoitis. Canadian Dylan Cramer follows up his Sonny Criss Tribute disc The First One (DSM 3016, 1998) with an energetic collection of standards performed by his exceptional alto-led quartet. A student of Criss, Cramer’s tone is certainly influenced by him without being imitative of it. His tone is dry with a slight vibrato. Cramer is more ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free jazz and avant-garde styles were the same evolutionary answer to bebop that bebop was to swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre's harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman's (pre-Free Jazz) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. Miles ...
Clairdee: Destination Moon
by C. Michael Bailey
My Two Sense.. Colleague Jim Santella reviewed this Bay Area artist in the November issue of All About Jazz. Publisher, Master Ricci also sent this disc my way and I am quite glad he did. I have recently reviewed several jazz vocal offerings, but none I found as satisfying in singing or support as Clairdee’s self-produced ...
Ruth Naomi Floyd: Walk And Not Be Faint
by C. Michael Bailey
Spiritual Jazz. Ruth Naomi Floyd’s jazz is decidedly spiritual. No wonder as she was raised in the Church, daughter of prominent Philadelphia, PA minister, the Reverend Melvin Floyd. She covers the familiar modern hymn “We are one in the Spirit” with enough smart swing to cause the walls to tumble. Smart is the key operative. Floyd’s ...
Keith Jarrett: The Melody at Night, With You
by C. Michael Bailey
My Two Cents. I read with great interest David Adler’s review of The Melody at Night, With You in the December issue of AAJ. I have very much enjoyed Jarrett’s Standards Trio recordings ( Still Live ) and his quasi-New Age musings ( The Koln Concert ). But as fine as these recordings may be, Jarrett’s ...
Carol Sloane: Romantic Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
Ellington at the Millennium. A flood of Ellingtonia has been released in this year of the maestro’s centenary. This is the first completely vocal collection I have come upon (Tony Bennett’s Sings Ellington Hot and Cool not withstanding). Carol Sloane of Hendricks, Lambert, and Sloane fame releases her first recording for the DRG label after several ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free Jazz and Avant-garde were the same evolutionary answer to Bebop that Bebop was to Swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre’s harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman’s (pre- Free Jazz ) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. ...
Gene Harris: Alley Cats
by C. Michael Bailey
Blues March. West Coast Pianist Gene Harris averages about one release per year. The bluesmeister chooses appropriately to close the century and millennium with a live recording, the venue where he dons his best face. Recorded at Seattle’s Jazz Alley (hence the disc title) in 1998, Harris continues his trend of using his daughter Niki as ...
Cyrus Chestnut: Blessed Quietness
by C. Michael Bailey
Seasonal Piano Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is the latest of jazz artists to release a solo piano holidays disc. Other recent and notable examples include Dave Brubeck's Christmas (Teldec 83410), Marcus Robert's Prayer for Peace (Novus 63124), and Dave McKenna's Christmas Ivory (Concord 4772). For y entertainment dollar, this Chestnut Disc and the McKenna disc are running ...
Sam Yahel: In The Blink of An Eye
by C. Michael Bailey
The Second Time. In The Blink of An Eye is organist Sam Yahel’s second release for Naxos Jazz, following up his critically recognized release Searchin’. A performer more in the mold of Larry Young rather than Jimmy Smith, Yahel further defines his light and unique style on this new recording. The B-3 Tradition. When thinking of ...
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