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Mina Agossi: Well You Needn't
by Chris May
Since her emergence on the Parisian music scene in the late 1990s, French/Beninoise singer Mina Agossi has polarised opinion sharply. Her style, a startling one-off which combines the caned and the languid with the intensely dramatic, infuriates as many people as it excites. Agossi is to jazz singing something of what Diamanda Galas is to torch ...
Blue Mitchell: Stablemates
by Chris May
A luminous chunk of late-period Blue Mitchell--remarkably, on CD for the first time--Stablemates was recorded in '77 in Los Angeles. It stacks up well against the trumpeter's fine work for Riverside and Blue Note in the late '50s and '60s. By '77, after the punishing decade-long combination punch of acid rock, funk and emergent disco, the ...
Thelonious Monk: The Classic Quartet
by Chris May
Intermittently available over the years on various labels and in various guises (most recently as Thelonious Monk Quartet in Japan and 1963: In Japan), this album catches Monk on the cusp between his unflaggingly inventive, mould-breaking Riverside years and his less consistently exploratory, later period with CBS. Clocking in at just over 38 minutes, The Classic ...
Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair: Africa Calling
by Chris May
Jamaican tenor saxophonist Wilton “Bogey" Gaynair, whose passionate double-barrelled playing (and take no prisoners technical facility) illuminated the British hard bop scene in the late '50s, is today more or less forgotten. He made one headlong charge of an album, Blue Bogey, in '59, before disappearing into obscurity (or to be precise, into Germany, which at ...
Bob Dorough: Small Day Tomorrow
by Chris May
At a party to celebrate his 100th birthday, pianist Eubie Blake, a glass of whiskey in one hand, a cigar in the other, is reported to have observed: “If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." Way to go. (Blake died five days later--but he'd made his ...
Dimitri Vassilakis: Parallel Lines
by Chris May
Greek saxophonist Dimitri Vassilakis' third album for Candid is a one-course, big plate feast of rugged, gruff-toned tenor saxophone and high-torque bass and drums. It swings hard from start to finish, with only the halfway point “Soul Eyes" providing a pause, and does both Vassilakis and his primary influence, Sonny Rollins, proud. It was released in ...
This Is Living
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: We've Got A World That Swings; I Was Telling Her About You; No Moon At All; You Call It Jogging; Movies; Just A Day;
Domestic Bliss; It Could Happen To You; I'm Through With Love; There'll Be Some Changes Made; Tell Me The Truth; I Walk
A Little Faster
Fast Foot Shuffle
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bebop;
Chair Dance;
North Station;
Fast Foot Shuffle;
Mad Woman;
Giant Steps;
Get It Yourself;
On Your Marks;
Ecclesbourne Stomp;
South London Samba;
Sludgepump;
Wake Up Call;
Caravan;
and for the brave and patient, Demons.
Dave O'Higgins: Fast Foot Shuffle
by Ben McDonnell
The idea of an album conceived for a jazz dance group may set alarm bells ringing for many. Whilst Fast Foot Shuffle was written for the talented JazzCotech Dancers, preconceptions and fears that the music may have been compromised in some way are soon waylaid as one listens to O'Higgins' lively collection of reworked standards and ...
