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Akua Allrich: Live! Uniquely Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz vocals standard repertoire has a quantum mechanics of its own. Artists seem attracted to certain dense loci within the repertoire and orbit there. Then there are some artists that do this while accumulating other pieces outside of this loci to make their own. This is what Washington, DC native Akua Allrich does and displays ...
Fred Tackett: Coming Home
by C. Michael Bailey
In his book The Dog Of The South (The Overlook Press, 1979), Arkansas author Charles Portis, through his protagonist Ray Midge notes that:“A lot of people leave Arkansas and most of them come back sooner or later. They can't quite achieve escape velocity."This has been true, if only temporarily, for the many ...
Van Morrison: Born to Sing - No Plan B
by C. Michael Bailey
When Ray Charles died in 2004, he left only one artist (two if you count Willie Nelson) with a comparable musical vision and depth and breadth of creative reach: Van Morrison. For 40 years, Morrison has surveyed the spectrum of American music, just as Charles had. Morrison passed blues, soul, R&B, rock, country, jazz and folk ...
Alisha's Quartet: Along for the Ride
by C. Michael Bailey
Alisha Pattillo's tenor saxophone case sports an impressive variety of destination stickers, real and metaphorical, where the young artist has visited in her life. Anglo-Australian, Patillo was raised in Singapore and proceeded to woodshed throughout Southeast Asia before receiving a first-rate schooling at Australia's Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, majoring in jazz saxophone and education ...
Tianna Hall and the Mexico City Jazz Trio: Two for the Road
by C. Michael Bailey
Tianna Hall's fifth recording, Two For The Road, and her first since Never Let Me Go (Blue Bamboo, 2011), continues to document the singer's evolution within the mainstream of jazz vocals. Thoroughly trained in the vocal arts at the University of Houston, Hall has progressively refined her smart and sexy delivery with each recording. Hall has ...
Preston Lauterbach: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll
by C. Michael Bailey
The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' RollPreston Lauterbach368 pagesISBN 0393342948W. W. Norton2012Preston Lauterbach's meticulously researched and present The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll turns a bright light on what might be considered the Higgs Field of rock ...
Die Mikronesische Mafia: Die Mikronesische Mafia
by C. Michael Bailey
Berlin-based Die Mikronesische Mafia, an event-driven nonet, makes a brand of music that is as backward-looking as it is forward-forging. Cinematic and comprehensive, the five fairly brief parts that make up the group's eponymous release conjure visions of classic movies remade in modern parlance (with thoroughly updated soundtracks) or, even better, Weimar-period cabaret evolved into its ...
Carolyn Burke: No Regrets - The Life of Edith Piaf
by C. Michael Bailey
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf Carolyn Burke 304 Pages ISBN: 0307268012 Alfred A. Knopf 2011In the 20th century, France produced two celebrities for which the New World has no equal: Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was in international entertainment polymath who had his thumb ...
Fred Hersch and The Village Vanguard
by C. Michael Bailey
If pianist Bill Evans came after Bud Powell and Art Tatum, who came after Bill Evans? Fred Hersch did. It was from Hersch that Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson came as his students. Evans' language captivated jazz pianism for decades and needed evolutionary stimuli to further develop. That stimuli was provided by Hersch, who has quietly ...
Little Feat: Little Rock, AR, September 10, 2012
by C. Michael Bailey
Little FeatRevolution RoomLittle Rock, ARSeptember 12, 2012 Mother Nature finally exhaled, and the brutal Southern Summer of 2012 came to a curious end, producing what passed for an electric blue Monday evening. The temperature and humidity were both blessedly low and sitting on the sidewalk of Little Rock's River Market ...
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