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AllAboutJazz-New York August 2009 Issue Now Available!
One of the more compelling facets of jazz as a musical form is the pliability of its practitioners. Unlike most classical musicians who play scores written for them or rockers who are serial monogamists when it comes to bands, jazz players, for reasons both artistic and economic, usually exist simultaneously as leaders and sidemen. Some start ...
Fulfilling what has been lacking...
by AAJ Staff
By Mickey Bass Jazz, as we once knew it, has become a thing of the past. For a lot of years clubs and promoters have been saying that this music is dead. My response to that statement is, “How can jazz be dead when its creators are still alive and well and creating?" ...
Land of Dreams
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: JC; Moon Nocturne; How Am I To Know?; If You Could See Me Now; Love For Sale; Some Wandering Bushman; Strangeness; We See; Land of Dreams.
Charles Davis: Land of Dreams
by Elliott Simon
In the shrinking world of “legendary" jazz performers, all star sessions and one-offs are the norm. This release is a rare treat that gives a real look-see at saxophonist Charles Davis in the context of his working band. Davis, with his baritone sax, was part of the seminal Jazz Composer's Orchestra and early groups fronted by ...
Blue Gardenia
Label: Reade Street Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: A Beautiful Friendship; Texas Moon; Bossa Joe; Stranded; Shadow Of The Sunset; Sabia; Blues For
Yahoo; Blue Gardenia.
Charles Davis: Blue Gardenia
by Jim Santella
Baritone saxophonist Charles Davis started out with Sun Ra in the early 1950s. Along the way, he’s paid his dues in the big bands of Clark Terry, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Illinois Jacquet and Lionel Hampton. He first played “Blue Gardenia” with Dinah Washington in the late ‘50s. As a leader, he’s only issued a few recordings: ...
Charles Davis: Sweet Storyteller
by R.J. DeLuke
There’s a difference between the elder statesmen in jazz and the newer firebrands, no matter how talented. One is the former’s ability to take their time to tell a story. They’ve been around life and they’re not in a rush. Like Dexter was. And Prez. Out of that mold is 70-year-old Charles Davis, displaying ...
Charles Davis: Blue Gardenia
by C. Michael Bailey
Charles Davis is one of those musicians who has capably plied his craft for over 50 years, working alongside disparate characters like Sun Ra and Thad Jones while garnering little or no commercial recognition for his meager but excellent output as a leader. On Blue Gardenia everything about Charles Davis and his playing smacks of hard ...
