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Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianoforte. Turning forty entitles the birthday person to a couple of acquired appreciations. One for good cigars and the second is for music listened to but not understood in adolescence. An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea is just such music. I was sixteen and bored with Southern Rock and decided I would try jazz ...
Shirley Horn: I Remember Miles
by C. Michael Bailey
A Labor of Love. Shirley Horn's 1991's You Won't Forget Me was one of the last recordings Miles Davis made. More significant was the broken promise that Miles had made a number of years previous that he would not return to the standards. A gratefully broken promise. He appeared on the title piece, a titan straddling ...
Chet Baker: Chet Baker and Strings
by C. Michael Bailey
With Strings. I have been listening to a several recordings of Jazz artists performing with a string section, including: Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy 814 642), Charlie Parker with Strings (Verve 314 523), Art Pepper's Winter Moon (OJC 677), Wynton Marsalis' Midnight Blues: Standard Time Volume 5 (Columbia 68921), and most recently, Chet Baker and Strings ...
Jimmy Smith: Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Back at the Chicken Shack. The jazz organ is one of the few instruments that has been completely dominated by a single individual. That individual is Jimmy Smith. Born in Norristown, PA, Smith studied music in Philadelphia, a major jazz organ center. Starting on piano, he switched to the organ three years prior to his first ...
Grant Green: Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
The House Band. In the early 1960s, guitarist Grant Green (1931-1979) and pianist Sonny Clark (1931-1963) were the top-drawer house musicians in the Blue Note stables. Grant Green was on hand for some of Blue Note's highest moments (Hank Mobley's Workout, Ike Quebec's Blue and Sentimental, and Lee Morgan's Search for a New Land ). Dexter ...
Sonny Clark: Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Stablemates. In the early 1960s, pianist Sonny Clark (1931-1963) and Guitarist Grant Green (1931-1979) were the top-drawer house musicians in the Blue Note stable. Dexter Gordon considered Sonny Clark his favorite pianist, having him play on the notable Go and A Swinging Affair sessions. Clark also made a series of landmark recordings with clarinetist Buddy DeFranco ...
Lee Morgan: Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Prometheus Unbound. Lee Morgan Standards is a compact disc of previously unreleased material. This is brand new Lee Morgan, and not only that, it is new Lee Morgan in a medium-sized ensemble (septet) setting. These pieces were recorded in January 1967, well after his seminal Hard Bop Blue Note recordings The Sidewinder (1963), Search for the ...
The Three Sounds: Standards
by C. Michael Bailey
Uncontainable. It is often said in any generic biography about almost any jazz pianist that they were skilled in playing the blues. This may or may not be true. In the case of Gene Harris, he should be the definition of jazz blues. His playing has always possessed a muscular, intelligent, double-fisted character that appealed to ...
James Zollar: Soaring With Bird
by C. Michael Bailey
Carvin' The Bird. James Zollar's Soaring With Bird leads the second wave of Naxos Jazz releases to the market place. It is unique among the Naxos Jazz offerings in that it is completely composed of standards. The object of the recording, obvious from the title, is Charlie Parker. What is not obvious from the title is ...
Umo Jazz Orchestra: Umo Jazz Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
The Big Band at the End of the Century. There are several very fine and innovative Big Bands composing and performing right now. They include the bands headed by Carla Bley, Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, McCoy Tyner, and Bob Mintzer. To borrow from Downbeat magazine, a big band “talent deserving wider recognition" is the Finnish Umo ...
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