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Junior Cook (32 Jazz: Senior Cookin
by C. Michael Bailey
An American Original. Junior Cook is that type of musician whose tone and technique is an archetype of jazz. Full-throated and commanding, Cook swings and swings, doubtlessly helped by his long tenure with Horace Silver (1958 – 1964). Hard Bop and Blues—Blues and Hard Bop. Swing, Swang, Swung... Born in Pensacola. FL in 1934, Herman “Junior” ...
Wayne Shorter (Blue Note The Rudy Van Gelder Edition: Speak No Evil / JuJu
by C. Michael Bailey
RVG Again. Will Smith and Chris Hovan wrote two very capable articles about the Blue Note RVG Editions. Their articles were very informative and they stimulated me to check out some “new” old music. I decided to start with the initial RVG releases by Wayne Shorter. Déjà Vu All Over Again The nice thing about both ...
The Danish Radio Big Band (dacapo: A Little Bit of Duke
by C. Michael Bailey
Centenary. What better opportunity to reconsider European interpretations of Duke Ellington’s music than his 100th birthday. Ellington’s music has woven itself into the fabric of Western Musical Tradition in the same way as Hector Berlioz did. Both men were brilliant orchestrators, arrangers, and finally composers. How appropriate it is for the very fine Danish Radio Big ...
Allen Toussaint, et al. / Amadee Castenell (NYNO Records: Allen Toussaint and Various Artists
by C. Michael Bailey
Bon Ton NYNO. Contemporary Louisiana music is alive and well and being projected by the New York-based label NYNO Records. NYNO was founded in 1995, the brainchild of radio syndicator Josh Feigenbaum and pianist, composer, arranger, producer par excellence Allen Toussaint. The stated goal of the label is... “to record and distribute the roots and blues-oriented ...
Gov: Live... With A Little Help From Our Friends
by C. Michael Bailey
Fringes of Jazz. This disc warrants a few words among these electrons for no other reason than it covers Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro-Blue”. But this is not the only reason. Gov’t Mule (comprised of Allman Brothers Warren Haynes and Allen Woody with the addition of drummer Matt Abts) carries on a tradition that was begun by the ...
Florian Ross / Ramsden and Lodder: Suite for Soprano Sax and String Orchestra / Above The Clouds
by C. Michael Bailey
The Two Sopranos. Naxos Jazz highlights the soprano saxophone in two vastly different settings on two recent releases. The instrument that Sidney Bechet put on the map and John Coltrane played on his “Favorite Things” (and with which Kenny G made his fortune) is a tender and demanding mistress. Like the clarinet, few jazz musicians play ...
Jeff Zelnick: A Little More Than The Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
A Well-plowed Field. If jazz was farming, A Little More Than The Blues would be a fertile field producing the same crop in high yield and of high quality, year in and year out. Altoist Jeff Zelnick does not break any new ground here, but he does offer the listener a very pleasant listen to some ...
Fabio Morgera: Slick
by C. Michael Bailey
Fab-ba-ba-ba-bio!. Slick is a brand-spanking new release from Sergio Veschi's Red Records. It is a disc in keeping with both his goals of capturing only the top-drawer of jazz and documenting Italian jazz musicians. Fabio Morgera is a talented trumpeter/flugelhornist who has assembled an exceptional medium sized group of his fellow countrymen. Morgera ...
Martin Taylor (Linn Records: Two
by C. Michael Bailey
The Standard Fare...with a twist. ...of lemon, of course. Please make mine dry, very dry, so I might enjoy this superb, easy listening disc with my sweetheart close. The listener will not even make it to Johnny Nicol’s performance of “I’ve Never Been Love Before” before sweet intoxication commands. This disc was recently honored as release ...
Terri Richards Alden with the Warren Vache: Voice with Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Brillant Throwback. A major trend in classical music recording and performance centered on words like “period" and “historically informed." The phrase “Period Performance" has several definitions: using authentic instruments and tunings from the period the composition being played was composed. Another would be using modern instruments built in the form of the authentic instruments of the ...
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