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Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer
by Chris M. Slawecki
This all-star jazz-meets-R&B project, recorded live at the Blue Note in August '07 is orchestrated by vocalist Roseanna Vitro and pianist Kenny Werner who contributes several head-spinning arrangements of familiar blues, rhythm and blues, and not-quite-blues. The album certainly gets an “A" for effort. “I found the writing process fascinating. Some of the tunes were very ...
Paul Carlon Octet: Roots Propaganda
by Chris M. Slawecki
"I am interested in combining all roots music," explains saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator Paul Carlon. “Not necessarily to make a point, but because I love it all. So I'm trying to take these disparate elements and put them into a jazz context." Carlon continues, “That was the idea behind Roots Propaganda. We need some propaganda ...
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded live during “Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," his 2007 two-night stand with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet for Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Marsalis serves as artistic director, Two Men with the Blues is by far the most enjoyable music of 2008. Nelson and Marsalis meet each other halfway between the acoustic country blues ...
Dynamite Duos and Perfect Partners
by Chris M. Slawecki
Joe Beck & John Abercrombie Coincidence Whaling City Sound 2007 This duet album is a guitarist's dream. Both Beck and Abercrombie have unquestionable individual virtuosity plus experience in this format through previous tandem performances with Larry Coryell, John Scofield, Ralph Towner and similar luminaries. Together, they explore pillars ...
Simon & Garfunkel: Live 1969
by Chris M. Slawecki
Recorded during performances in October and November '69 for what was supposed to be the live album follow-up to Bridge Over Troubled Water (which the duo had recorded before these concerts but was not yet released on Columbia), Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel capture on Live 1969 the mood of their generation changing. That live album ...
Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King: Blood Brothers
by Chris M. Slawecki
Joe Kubek moved to Texas and played backup for bluesmen of both local and national renown (including Texas legend Freddie King) before he turned 20. He met Louisiana native Bnois King at a blues jam session in Dallas. The two quickly realized that their individual slashing blues styles would make one powerhouse combination guitar sound and ...
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims: Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jutta Hipp proves one of the more curious tales in a music whose history is full of curiosities: She grew up studying jazz piano and painting in her native Germany, then moved to New York City in late 1955. She played piano in and around the city for about a year, including performances documented on two ...
Joe Beck & John Abercrombie: Coincidence
by Chris M. Slawecki
This duet album is a guitarist's dream. Both Joe Beck and John Abercrombie have unquestionable individual virtuosity plus experience in this format through previous tandem performances with Larry Coryell, John Scofield, Ralph Towner and similar luminaries. Together, they explore pillars from the traditional and more exploratory jazz canons including Mercer Ellington's “Things Ain't What They Used ...
New Singing Things
by Chris M. Slawecki
There seem to be as many different forms and functions for our voices as there are musical styles for our instruments. Whether recorded in live performance, recorded in the studio, or chopped and looped into a preexisting mix, several recent releases spotlight the human voice. Andy Bey Ain't Necessarily So ...
Cheb i Sabbah: Devotion
by Chris M. Slawecki
Devotion uses the human voice for spiritual purposes, looping devotional chants from the Hindu, Sufi Islam and Sikh traditions, sung by leading practitioners of each liturgy, into Sabbah's uniquely synthetic, trippy music. “Trippy" is the keyword because Sabbah's sound collages travel backward and forward through both historical time and geographical space. The opening “Jai ...
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