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C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2012
by C. Michael Bailey
Cat ConnerCat TalesOne of the greatest jazz performance challenges is playing and singing ballads slow...sometimes called “calendar slow." The trick is playing slowly without dragging or stalling. It is simple physics, the difference between velocity and momentum. Simple tempo may be understood in terms of speed (or velocity) but swing, swing has ...
Chris May's Best Jazz Books of 2012
by Chris May
Are the best books always about the past rather than the present, or is it simply easier to write about events on which the dust has settled? Whatever. These three books are all about the past and each is outstanding.Matthew RuddickFunny Valentine: The Story Of Chet BakerGrippingly written and meticulously ...
Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii: Muku
by Dave Wayne
It's surprising that trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii--partners in music and life--have only recorded five duet CDs during the course of their incredibly prolific and artistically fecund collaboration. As Fujii wryly explains in her liner notes, each of their duet recordings is different--some are entirely freely improvised, others consist solely of compositions written by ...
John Proulx: The Best Thing for You
by C. Michael Bailey
While female jazz vocalists outnumber male jazz vocalists five to one, it would be a fallacy to believe there is not a wealth of talent among the men singers. With Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker now memories, and Mark Murphy and Jon Hendricks in twilight, as Kurt Elling ascends their throne, there exists a vocal diaspora ...
Beishan International Jazz Festival, China, 19-20 October 2012
by Ian Patterson
Beishan International Jazz FestivalBeishan TheaterNanping Town, Zhuhai, China10-20 October, 2012Jazz festivals occupy some fairly far-flung, diverse, and oftentimes dramatic settings; from the Polar North to the volcanic mountains of East Java, from medieval European towns to the great urban metropolises of North America, from tropical Thai islands to luxury cruise ships, ...
Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet: Voyagers
by C. Michael Bailey
Austrian vocalist/trumpeter Michaela Rabitsch and guitarist Robert Pawlik have fronted a quartet and performed as a duo for the past 15 years, releasing three CDs ahead of the present Voyagers. Concentrating on original compositions that lean in a commercial-popular direction, the pair has received a good deal of buzz. The majority of Voyagers is prepared very ...
November 2012
by Mr. P.C.
Dear Mr. P.C.:My mom won't let me play jazz. She says all jazz musicians are seedy. Is it true? class="f-right">- Gottagroove Dear Gottagroove:If by “seedy" your mother is referring to drug and alcohol abuse, she's being ridiculous! Let's take a look:Louis Armstrong was famously a pothead. Charlie Parker, ...
Stan Sulzmann: Neon Quartet
by Chris May
Stan Sulzmann is among the most singular saxophonists in the UK, with an instantly recognizable, lush but rough-edged sound, and a distinguished track record as a composer and arranger for large and small bands.Born in London in 1948, Sulzmann is approaching veteran status and is a source of inspiration to many of Britain's emerging ...
On the Banks of the Jabbok With Chet Baker
by C. Michael Bailey
When Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed by NPR shortly after publication of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (Riverhead, 2005), he was quite candid about his relationship with his own Judaism and Yahweh: Bloom: ... I may, as I say, lack trust in the covenant, but though I keep asking Yahweh to go ...
Ithamara Koorax: Celestial Elegance
by Chris M. Slawecki
Singer thamara Koorax recorded her 15th solo CD, Got to Be Real (Irma, 2012), “live in the studio" in Rio de Janeiro, the place of her birth, with her touring band--bassist Jorge Pescara, drummer Haroldo Jobim (a cousin of Antonio Carlos Jobim) and keyboardist Jose Roberto Bertrami, founding member of Brazil's famous fusion export Azymuth, on ...
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