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Ojos de Brujo: Aocana
by Chris May
While for most people outside Spain, life with Ojos de Brujo began in 2004 with baritone (World Village), or later with Techari (Six Degrees, 2006), the Barcelona-based, Catalan and Gypsy collective has been together since the late 1990s, and released its first album, Vengue (Edel), in 1999. In all this time, the band has stayed true ...
Grant Green: Street Of Dreams
by Chris May
Grant Green (1931-79) is probably the most sampled guitarist of his generation, and is rightly regarded as a godfather of acid jazz. His debut, Grant's First Stand (Blue Note, 1961)--heavy on the good foot groove--was made with soul jazz organist Baby Face Willette, and by 1965, when Green recorded an album for Verve, the label was ...
Cafe Society: The wrong place for the Right people
by Chris May
Cafe Society: The wrong place for the Right people Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson Hardback; 376 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03413-8 University of Illinois Press 2009 This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in ...
The Rail Band: Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba
by Chris May
Rail BandBelle Epoque Vol. 3 - DiobaSterns Africa2009 With Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba, the estimable Sterns Africa label has completed another definitive archive project documenting West Africa's post-colonial “belle epoque" of the 1960s and 1970s. The three two-disc volumes in the series present the hits, highlights ...
Stan Getz: Dynasty
by Chris May
Verve's Originals series, which in late 2008 brought us tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's wonderful box set The Bossa Nova Albums (Verve, 2008), follows through with a remastered reissue of Dynasty, a double album recorded in 1971, a decade or so after Getz gave jazz its final, sustained hurrah in the pop charts with bossa nova. Relatively ...
View From The Pocket: Northern Star People
by Chris May
British keyboardist Jonathan Gee is best known for his acoustic groups and recordings, but for View From The Pocket he's teamed up with Finnish trumpeter Mika Myllari for the mostly electronic duo Northern Star People. Gee, who plays some acoustic piano but spends more time on a battery of layered electric keyboards, and Myllari, whose trumpet ...
Elan Mehler: The After Suite
by Chris May
This achingly beautiful, elegant album is only the second from Brooklyn-based pianist and composer Elan Mehler, being the follow-up to his debut, Scheme For Thought (Brownswood, 2007), another quietly sensational disc. If it might have seemed rather too breathless to have hailed a debut as a masterpiece, the temptation cannot be resisted second time out. The ...
Ba Cissoko / Extra Golden: Coast to Coast
by Chris May
Third albums from Guinea's Ba Cissoko and the Kenyan/American collaboration Extra Golden prove, respectively, to be uplifting and just a little disappointing. Ba Cissoko Seno Sterns Africa 2009 Like the kora played by its eponymous leader, the music made by Ba Cissoko is graceful, rooted ...
Big Air: Big Air
by Chris May
Big Air is the debut album by the genre-mashing transatlantic quintet of saxophonist Steve Buckley, trumpeter Chris Batchelor, and tuba player Oren Marshall, from the UK, and pianist Myra Melford and drummer Jim Black, from the USA. It comes carrying weighty expectations--Big Air's infrequent performances have enlivened the British jazz scene. The band caused a stir ...
Oumou Sangare: A New Masterpiece from Mali
by Chris May
Oumou Sangare Seya World Circuit 2009 Before European-derived concepts of career management became widespread among African recording artists, following the emergence of the world music movement in the late 1980s and 1990s, a musician's stature could be measured by the frequency of the albums he (or, less often, ...
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