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The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions
By Peggy Lee
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1998
Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool
by Larry Koenigsberg
With the reissue of the Miles Davis BIRTH OF THE COOL sessions, accompanied by recordings of this seminal nonet’s slightly earlier live dates at New York City’s Royal Roost, we now have as complete as possible an account of this still fresh sounding and beautiful music. The array of talent alone is startling: Miles Davis in ...
Bud Shank-Bob Cooper / Bob Brookmeyer: Blowin' Country / Traditionalism Revisited
by Jack Bowers
If ever a series lived up to its promise and its name, this one surely does. These two discs are part of a set of reissues on Pacific Jazz labeled West Coast Classics — which indeed they are. Also among the early releases (not reviewed here) are memorable sessions by Chet Baker/Russ Freeman, the Jack Montrose ...
Teddy Edwards: Sunset Eyes
by Larry Koenigsberg
There’s little on veteran Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards’ date which sounds distinctively West Coast but here it is, part of a program of Pacific Jazz limited edition reissues in their West Coast Classics series from Capitol Records. All but one of the tracks feature Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, the ...
Don Ellis: Live At Monterey
by Jim Santella
In the liner notes Leonard Feather called Don Ellis “the Stan Kenton of the 1970s." After earning a degree in music composition at Boston University, the trumpeter interned with several big bands, Latin jazz bands, Charles Mingus, and George Russell. Expanding his study of ethnomusicology at UCLA, Ellis formulated ideas about innovative ways to “break the ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool
by C. Michael Bailey
Addendum. Alex Henderson reviewed this re-release in the June issue of AAJ, succinctly honoring it as an important re- release of some of the most essential jazz music produced. I wholeheartedly agree. I always prefer to offer context and that is what I want to add to Mr. Henderson's fine review. Move. The first ...
Bill Perkins / Jack Sheldon: On Stage / The Quartet and The Quintet
by John Sharpe
The California jazz scene reached its zenith in the 50's and 60's and Richard Bock's Pacific Jazz label managed to capture most of the music from this “cool school". Artists such as Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper and Bud Shank all recorded for Pacific Jazz and they emerged as West Coast masters. Bill Perkins (tenor) ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Birth Of The Cool
by AAJ Staff
Since the late 1940s, the term “cool jazz" has been used to describe post-swing jazz that is played with subtlety and restraint rather than aggression. One could argue that “cool jazz" started when Lester Young presented a soft, relaxed alternative to Coleman Hawkins-and to be sure, the seminal Prez was the blueprint for Stan Getz, Zoot ...
Chet Baker: Master Of Jazz: Chet Baker Sings
by AAJ Staff
Ornette Coleman's insights are well worth paying attention to, and he certainly hit the nail on the head when discussing Chet Baker's singing. To paraphrase Coleman, Baker may not have had much of a voice, but that didn't stop him from grabbing you with it emotionally. As a singer, Baker didn't have had the range of ...
