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Roseanna Vitro: Clarity: Music of Clare Fischer
by C. Michael Bailey
Roseanna Vitro is a “singer's singer." What does that mean? It means she is so excellent and still warranting much more attention. Her deep and precise alto is perfectly tuned and balanced. Her phrasing is textbook. This is what a jazz singer sounds like. But Vitro's skill set does not stop at vocal ...
Cantus: A Harvest Home
by C. Michael Bailey
There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home, a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine ...
Fo' Reel: Heavy Water
by C. Michael Bailey
Journeyman musicians have an ease about them that enables them to readily collaborate, making exceptional music in the bargain. New Orleans's Fo' Reel is such a band. The core of Fo' Reel is made up of New Orleans soul singer C.P. Love, guitarist and producer Mark Domizio, keys player Johnny Neel and bassist David Barard. The ...
Jack Cooper: Mists - Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra
by C. Michael Bailey
American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) was an arts iconoclast in the vein of his contemporary poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Both men were successful business executives who profoundly changed American art as an avocation. Ive's music brimmed with an Americana that sounds slightly sepia-toned today, but that has not prevented it's subjugation as subject for jazz interpretation, ...
The Old 97s: Most Messed Up
by C. Michael Bailey
How great is it to discover a band that has been here all along? The Old 97s are nothing new. Coming together in Dallas in 1993, the popular quartet led by the aptly-named Rhett Butler has recorded 15 studio CDs since 1994's Hitchhike to Rhome (Idol Records). The band emerged as part of ...
The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin III, Deluxe Edition
by C. Michael Bailey
Led Zeppelin II was the second element of the musical binary epoxy that hardened the reputation of the band after the release of Led Zeppelin. “Sonic crunch" is an apt description of II while Led Zeppelin III takes a hard right into new (and, perhaps, unwelcome) territory. Led Zeppelin Led Zepplin III, ...
Sabine Meyer – The Art of the Clarinet
by C. Michael Bailey
Sabine Meyer KlarinettenKonzerte: Clarinet Concertos -Mozart Stamitz Weber Rossini Krommer Warner Classics 2012 The Twentieth Century and beyond have seen the finest classical clarinetists: Jack Bymer, Martin Frost, Emma Johnson, Sharon Kam, Thea King Dieter Klocker, Anthony Pay, Richard Stoltzman and David Weber. Belonging among these names ...
The Led Zeppelin Papers: Led Zeppelin II, Deluxe Edition
by C. Michael Bailey
January 12, 1969 to October 22, 1969. Two-hundred eighty-three days. That is the length of time between the releases of Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II. By any estimation, in rock music it defies the space-time continuum. By 21st Century time, it only compares to the incessant leakage of Rap mixtapes pooling on the floor of ...
Annie Ross: To Lady with Love
by C. Michael Bailey
If you want to hear the best Annie Ross, listen to King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings (Fantasy, 1952). If you want to hear the most empathic and honest Annie Ross, listen to To Lady with Love. Ross is in her early to mid-80s and her voice is not what it was in the 50s ...
Mulberry Mountain Arkansas - Music Central
by C. Michael Bailey
Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. “Come and see," said Philip. Nestled in the upper part of the Arkansas River Valley just North of Ozark in Franklin County is Mulberry Mountain. Mulberry Mountain has become the site of several notable music festivals, including Wakarusa, Thunder on the Mountain and The ...
