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Carri Coltrane: Child Inside My Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Mixology. In higher education, once one develops the aptitude and achieves a doctorate in something like Pharmacology or Molecular Biology, that person can migrate among many disciplines, blurring the lines between these disciplines. So with the arts. Many famous painters also sculpted and worked many across periods. In music, there are those who can transcend style, ...
Clifford Adams: The Master Power
by C. Michael Bailey
All-Star Cast. In what is ostensibly his debut as a leader, trombonist Clifford Adams assembles a jazz who's who of side persons to help him on his quest. That quest, realized on The Master Power is both musical and spiritual (in my mind the same). Adams has enjoyed a varied and fulfilling career in music, playing ...
Various: Endless Miles
by C. Michael Bailey
Tributes When it comes to popular music, I shy away from all-star tribute discs. It has been my experience that they are uniformly bad with the exception of one or two superb performances (such as Buddy Guy?s ?Red House? on Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Warner Brothers 45438). Jazz tributes have a better chance ...
Flipside: Flipside
by C. Michael Bailey
Fluid Dynamics. One of the nice things about jazz is how different performance styles mingle with one another at their edges. This mingling can take two forms: innovation and playing (stylistically) in all directions. An example of the first is Lester Young. The way he paid his bills was by playing big band swing in the ...
Wessell Anderson: Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson Live at the Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
Big Alto Saxophonists. A copy of Sherman Irby's new disc, Big Mama's Biscuits (also reviewed this month) recently crossed my desk and got me to thinking about alto saxophone players who were also physically large men, such as the corpulent Irby. While this specialized population would include Bird when he was healthy, I was thinking more ...
Jimmy Smith: The Complete Blue Note February 1957 Jimmy Smith
by C. Michael Bailey
The Miracle of Mosaic. The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions is not a new release. It made the market in 1994 as a limited edition set of 5,000 three CD or 5 LP sets by the masters of the jazz reissue, Michael Cuscuna and Mosaic Records. The copy I have is numbered 3801 ...
Thelonious Monk: Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Recordings: 1926 - 1968
by C. Michael Bailey
Not a Reissue. The venerable Orrin Keepnews informs the liner note reader right off the bat that this two-CD set of solo Monk music is not a reissue. It is comprised of all of the solo piano performances prepared during Monk's association with Columbia. Collected are the solo performances that occurred on otherwise ensemble ...
Jesse Andrus: Soy Califa
by C. Michael Bailey
Long Tall Dexter. Jesse Andrus' debut disc for DBK Jazz is a Latin-flavored tribute to great tenor saxophone players. I do not specify which ones because they become obvious when coursing through this clever collection of standards and originals. Andrus is a multi-reed instrumentalist who manages the tenor and above, plus the flute, deftly. White Hot. ...
Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson: Buddy DrFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin
by C. Michael Bailey
And Strings Redux. A number of jazz reissues using strings have been finding their way beneath my laser. I reviewed Chet Baker and Strings last month in these virtual pages ( AJJ, September, 1998, Issue #11). Cleverly disguised as a standard jazz date, Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin is a with strings recording ...
Benny Golson: I Remember Miles
by C. Michael Bailey
A Pleasant Surprise. I had been anticipating the release of Shirley Horn's tribute to Miles Davis, I Remember Miles, when I was searching a popular internet music source. I searched on the title and up popped this hitherto unknown to this writer tribute from tenorist Benny Golson. As the Horn disc had not yet been released, ...
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