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Heather Masse & Dick Hyman: Lock My Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/songwriter Heather Masse received her didactic training at the New England Conservatory of Music and her practicum on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Her academy training was in jazz vocals, but her practical experience reflects more folk- flavored fare. Her previous recording, Bird Song (Red House, 2009), was a well- received collections of folk originals, ...
Kevin Avery: Everything Is An Afterthought - The Life And Writings of Paul Nelson
by C. Michael Bailey
Everything Is An Afterthought: The Life And Writings of Paul NelsonKevin Avery497 PagesISBN: 978-1-60699-475-7Fantagraphics Books2011There was a golden age of music criticism ruled by names like Dave Marsh, Ben Fong-Torres, Robert Christgau, Jon Landau, Greil Marcus, Ralph Gleason, Lester Bangs...and Paul Nelson. Once the ...
Mort Weiss: I'll Be Seeing You
by C. Michael Bailey
Clarinetist Mort Weiss is a character. That much is readily evident by reading his All About Jazz column, The Mort Report. He is opinionated and passionate, both driving forces that easily season his playing in such a way that when Weiss plays, he's readily recognizable. Since returning to recording in 2001 after nearly 30 years away, ...
Sherri Roberts: Lovely Days
by C. Michael Bailey
Lovely Days is a “classical" piano-vocals recital. It is classical in the respect of that this spare pairing is time tested and well respected across musical genres. Bay-area vocalist Sherri Roberts downsizes from her previous three recordings to a duo setting with pianist Bliss Rodriguez. Robert's repertoire comes directly from the Great American Songbook, first half ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2012
by C. Michael Bailey
Cat ConnerCat TalesOne of the greatest jazz performance challenges is playing and singing ballads slow...sometimes called “calendar slow." The trick is playing slowly without dragging or stalling. It is simple physics, the difference between velocity and momentum. Simple tempo may be understood in terms of speed (or velocity) but swing, swing has ...
Christmas 2012, Part II: Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Hank Jones (1918-2010) was the senior member of musical siblings that included trumpeter Thad Jones (1923-1986) and drummer Elvin Jones (1927-2004), both of whom he outlived. Jones was a musician of impeccable elegance and a holy grace who could be compared with Teddy Wilson and Tommy Flanagan had he any peers. Everything bassist Charlie Haden ...
Christmas 2012, Part I: Seraphic Fire
by C. Michael Bailey
The vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire hails from the warm climes of southern Florida. Brainchild and progeny of Patrick Dupré Quigley, the group assembles a passel of singing smarty pants who have been making their way through the standard vocal repertoire since their founding in the early 2000s. Since that time, the group, recording for the Seraphic ...
Jacqui Sutton: At the Edge of the Frontier
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist/bandleader Jacqui Sutton has a vision that was fully realized by the time she started recording. Her vision had a long incubation period, spent in a variety of musical wood sheds all leading to her debut, Billie and Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter, 2010). And this was only the beginning.All About Jazz: In your press ...
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique: Live at Carnegie Hall--Beethoven Symphonies 7 & 5
by C. Michael Bailey
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot GardinerLive at Carnegie Hall: Beethoven Symphonies 7 & 5Soli Deo Gloria2012 Why return to this tired, old repertoire? Twenty years ago, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his period instrument band, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, produced the leader of a deluge ...
Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet: Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Austrian-American Renaissance woman Elisabeth Lohninger is many things. She is a singer, composer, producer, writer, teacher and studio owner. Over the past several years Lohninger has found time to record four collections with her quartet: Beneath Your Surface (Lofish, 2005), The Only Way Out is Up (Lofish, 2007), Songs of Love and Destruction (Lofish, 2010), and ...
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