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TS Monk: His Father's Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Part 1 | Part 2 In November 1957, a stellar constellation of jazz royalty including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall, two performances in one night to benefit the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, NY. The performances were recorded for subsequent overseas broadcast on Voice of America radio. The Thelonious Monk ...
Bill Laswell/Various Artists: Subharmonic In Dub
by Chris M. Slawecki
Bill Laswell has composed, performed, and produced just about every style of music known to man--and a few more, too. In the early 1990s, in tandem with producer John Matarazzo (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tito Puente, Manu Dibango, Fela Kuti, Sly & Robbie), Laswell co-founded Axiom Records. Through Axiom and its subsidiaries (including Subharmonic ...
Erik Truffaz: Saloua
by Chris M. Slawecki
I am pleased and saddened to report that this is one of the best pieces of music I have heard in 2005. It is a pleasure to have discovered the fifth album in the US for Blue Note, and ninth album overall, by this French composer, bandleader, and trumpet player. Yet it is also sad, because ...
Various Artists: Verve Remixed 3
by Chris M. Slawecki
Annual Verve Remixed projects match up trip-hop and electronic music producers with historic treasures from the label's vaults in order to update or contemporize them. This third volume predominantly features female vocalists like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, and Anita O'Day, from among whom Sarah Vaughan gleefully steals the show. RSL, a sound ...
Hipnosis: Carrousel
by Chris M. Slawecki
This Munich quintet titled its debut simply Jazz. The album was so well received in Germany that it was subsequently released for Jazz-heads in the UK and Japan, too. Completely composed, performed, and produced by the band, this second full-length release showcases Hipnosis' excellent musicianship--especially on the part of Wanja Slavin (alto sax, alto clarinet) and ...
Dub Gabriel: Bass Jihad
by Chris M. Slawecki
Primarily written, performed, and produced by Dub Gabriel, Bass Jihad spans and touches all four corners of the world--if “all four corners means Jamaica, India, the Middle East, and Brooklyn. Gabriel begins this mystical electrical journey alongside Ahad Nazarzadeh-Saaz with “War in the Poppy Fields, a panic of Middle Eastern wind and percussion instruments ...
The Quantic Soul Orchestra: Pushin' On
by Chris M. Slawecki
As the mastermind behind Quantic, Will Holland scored a major hit in electronic and club music circles with last year's Mishaps Happening. Here performing on organ, bass, guitar, sitar, percussion, and saxophone, he leads the Quantic Soul Orchestra, the concert ensemble he formed to “put the funk back in it, through its US debut. ...
European Jazz, Electronic Beats, Worlds of Dub and a Sound Soul Orchestra
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Quantic Soul Orchestra Pushin' On Ubiquity 2005 As the mastermind behind Quantic, Will Holland scored a major hit in electronic and club music circles with last year's Mishaps Happening. Here performing on organ, bass, guitar, sitar, percussion, and saxophone, he leads the Quantic Soul Orchestra, the concert ...
Ken Saydak: It's My Soul
by Chris M. Slawecki
Born in one of the blues' most essential cities, this Chicago native learned from some of the Windy City's best by playing piano and keyboards on tours by Mighty Joe Young and Lonnie Brooks. In the 1980s, Ken Saydak played an essential part in Texas blues guitar legend Johnny Winter's renaissance as pianist on several tours ...
Marcia Ball: Live! Down the Road
by Chris M. Slawecki
Marcia Ball showcases one great slow-rolling blues here: “Louisiana 1927, Randy Newman's dust bowl tale about a historic flood, into which she wholeheartedly dives and immerses herself. In perhaps her best singing of this entire set, she recoils from its last line as if in horror from nature's awesome devastation of person and property. ...
