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Bill Evans: Live At Art D'Lugoff's Top of The Gate
by C. Michael Bailey
Why is pianist Bill Evans so important to jazz? it is simple: every pianist to hear and perform after him was influenced by him. Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson may have been technically more brilliant and extroverted, but it took first Bud Powell and then Evans to turn the creative tables toward the muted and introverted, ...
Allman by Any Other Name: Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks
by C. Michael Bailey
The post-millennial Allman Brothers Band has given birth to numerous side projects--often multiple side projects--for almost all of the current members. Both guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks have have led multiple bands outside of the Allman Brothers and both have live recordings of these side projects released within months of one another. ...
The Jeff Healey Band Live in Belgium
by C. Michael Bailey
The Jeff Healey BandThe Jeff Healey Band Live in BelgiumEagle Rock Entertainment2012The early 1990s were the height of Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey's popularity, particularly spurred by his conspicuous appearance in the 1989 Patrick Swazye film Roadhouse (United Artists). Healey, who passed away in 2006 at age 41, was ...
Allan Harris & Takana Miyamoto: Convergence
by C. Michael Bailey
Allan Harris & Takana MiyamotoConvergenceLove Production Records2012 A nostalgic trend that has gained traction in the last decade is that of bands (generally jam bands) performing “classic" rock albums live in their entirety, typically on Halloween or New Year's Eve. Some of the more notable examples of ...
The Rolling Stones' Some Girls in Sound and Print
by C. Michael Bailey
Some Girls (Rolling Stones, 1978) was the last great Rolling Stones record. Some will argue that Tattoo You (Rolling Stones, 1981) was the last, but Tattoo You was comprised of outtakes from several previous recording sessions going back to Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones, 1973). It was released as an excuse for the 1981 tour--better than ...
Tom Collier: Plays Haydn, Mozart, Telemann and Others
by C. Michael Bailey
Tom Collier is a bit of a character as, can be attested by the YouTube videos below. He has served as Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Washington since 1980. In 2011, he was appointed Chair of Jazz Studies at the school, and was awarded the Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professorship in the ...
Michael Benedict & Bopitude featuring Gary Smulyan: Five and One
by C. Michael Bailey
Diamond hard bop is alive and well and living in Michael Benedict & Bopitude's studio. The quintet's debut, Michael Benedict & Bopitude (Planet Arts, 2011), established the group as a premiere hard bop unit employing the classic trumpet-tenor quintet format used by Miles Davis, Art Blakey and various others. For this edition of Bopitude, drummer Benedict ...
John Pizzarelli and Tessa Souter: Classical Mashups
by C. Michael Bailey
The improvisatory nature of jazz provides a myriad of ways to enhance and tweak both the arrangement and performance of the music's canon. One approach being tried is the interpolation of one harmonically or rhythmically related song into another. Guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli and vocalist Tessa Souter have produced just such projects in their recordingsDouble Exposure and ...
Fine & Mellow - Three Voices and Deborah Shulman/Larry Zalkind
by C. Michael Bailey
Summit Records hits a quiet home run with the release of Three Voices' Transitions and Deborah Shulman & Larry Zalkind's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim. Three VoicesTransitionsSummit Records2012 Three Voices is the trio of flugelhornist Kim Pensyl, vibraphonist ...
Jazz Soul Seven: Impressions of Curtis Mayfield
by C. Michael Bailey
Curtis Mayfield's solo work and his work with the Impressions are highwater marks in popular music, representing the Chicago soul music constituency popular in the 1960s and '70s. His influence is yet to be fully realized or understood today, making his creative corpus a very tantalizing source of material for modern players. Jazz Soul Seven, an ...
