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Manuel Valera & Groove Square: Urban Landscape
by C. Michael Bailey
Cuban keyboardist and composer Manuel Valera presented last with a scorching trio set Live at Firehouse 12 (Mayo Records, 2015). Acoustic and organic, Valera demonstrated is bona fides with mainstream jazz performance. Bringing drummer E.J. Strickland from that and earlier bands, Valera moves into a new project with a new band, Groove Square. He adds the ...
Henry C. Gilliland & A.C. Robertson: The Year of Jubilo: 78 rpm recordings of Songs from the Civil War
by C. Michael Bailey
This is the tale of a record collector, Joe Bussard. Bussard boasts a collection of 78 rmp shellacs numbering in the 10,000s and including a good many of the pre-WWII Paramount blues and country sides. He is the curator of “old-timey" music. Bussard has previously released re-recordings of his collection under the guise of Down in ...
Lyn Stanley: Interludes
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/producer Lyn Stanley has established herself as a foremost stylist of the Great American Songbook. That is no mean feat. The sheer amount of vocal music made each year around the Songbook is impressive. It is too bad that the quality of a great many of those recordings is not equally impressive. Stanley's two previous recordings, ...
Billy Gibbons and the BFGs: Perfectamundo
by C. Michael Bailey
We are one hell of a long way from 1971 and ZZ Top's First Album (London). That music was as purely organic chewing tobacco and loose as the dust on the bank of the Rio Grande. Well, all that ended in 1976 with Tejas (London), which was the beginning of the band's ascendency to pop stardom ...
Art Pepper: Art Pepper Live at Fat Tuesday’s
by C. Michael Bailey
The discovery and release of Art Pepper Live at Fat Tuesday's is a surprising and welcome event that has some precedence in jazz reportage. “Art Pepper, 1926-1982" is a much anthologized obituary on Pepper by jazz writer Gary Giddins, originally published in his book Rhythm-a-ning (Da Capo Press, 1985) written shortly after the saxophonist's death. In ...
M'Balia: Halfway There
by C. Michael Bailey
Halfway There is the debut recording of one Philadelphia- native M'Balia Singley, a talented singer matriculating from Yale with a degree in history and Temple with one in law. That is an embarrassment of riches. But can counselor Singley translate all of this brain power into music? Her life arc had her practicing law and raising ...
Mose Allison: Mose Allison: American Legend in California
by C. Michael Bailey
Tippo, Mississippi is about as far from Charleston as it is Tutwiler, the two county seats of Tallahatchie County, located on the northeastern edge of the alluvial Delta plain, before the land turns to rolling hills. There lives in Tippo, an Allison family, who thirty years ago were patients of mine when I was practicing pharmacy ...
Austin Piazzolla Quintet: APQ
by C. Michael Bailey
Bandoneon player and tango composer Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921- 1992) is to Argentina what guitarist and bossa nova composer Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (1927-1994) is to Brazil. Both men essentially defined a style of music unique to their regions, styles of music immediately identifiable and iconic. Each comes into and out of vogue periodically, ...
Girl Talk: Saxophonists Nicole Glover and Kirsten Edkins
by C. Michael Bailey
The universe of horn players ceased being a “boys club" about thirty years ago. Women have taken commanding roles in both the trumpet (Carol Morgan, Ingrid Jensen, Saskia Laroo) and saxophone (Sharel Cassity, Alisha Pattillo, Nancy Wright, Virginia Mayhew, Pattie Cossentino, Jane Ira Bloom, Claire Daly). Add to these lists two new names, Nicole Glover and ...
Aimee Allen: Matter of Time
by C. Michael Bailey
Aimee Allen's previous recording, her junior release, Winters & Mays. (Azuline Music, 2011) was a well-conceived offering from this Pittsburgh native. On Matter of Time, Allen brings her uncanny feel for jazz conception. The disc is slightly schizophrenic, with two competing centers of gravity: one in the jazz mainstream ("My Romance," “Out of Nowhere") and the ...
