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Paul Clarvis / Liam Noble: Starry Starry Night
by Chris May
A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellington's “Mood Indigo," the Gershwins' “Embraceable You" and Scott Joplin's “Maple Leaf Rag," through to ...
Bill Frisell: The Best of Bill Frisell: Vol. 1 - Folk Songs
by Chris May
In Robert Reisner's biographical scrapbook, Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (Quartet Books, 1988), one of the contributors tells how Parker, with a saxophone strung round his neck and a gorilla on his back, employed a ruse to clear a Manhattan nightclub of his fans, in order to facilitate the entrance of others waiting in line ...
Courtney Pine: Transition In Tradition
by Chris May
British reed player Courtney Pine began his professional life in reggae bands, and reggae's “conscious" music tradition has since been a defining feature of his work. Pine plays conscious jazz, in that many of his compositions and recording projects have held a focus on social rights and justice as seen through the prism of the black ...
Disassembler: Fear Is The Mother Of Violence
by Chris May
Disassembler Fear Is The Mother Of Violence 33 Jazz 2008 Led by guitarist and composer Trevor Warren, Disassembler brings together half a dozen outward-looking British jazz musicians in a jazz and post-rock mix with Native American, Albanian and Mongolian flourishes. The adventurous and attractively rough-edged Fear Is The ...
Marco Benevento: Me Not Me
by Chris May
It's hard, even one year and countless spins on, to listen to keyboard player Marco Benevento's gimcrack riot of sound “The Real Morning Party" without breaking into a huge grin, if not out-loud laughter. The track, from the Benevento trio's debut album, Invisible Baby (Hyena, 2008), explodes with an irresistible love of life. ...
John Coltrane: The Impulse! Albums - Volume Three
by Chris May
John Coltrane The Impulse! Albums - Volume Three Impulse! 2009 With this latest edition of the Originals box sets collecting saxophonist John Coltrane's albums for the Impulse! label, the series reaches the critically-polarised period immediately following the release of A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965). Five albums are included--The ...
Tim Garland: Libra
by Chris May
Listening to British reed player Tim Garland, it's easy to be reminded of saxophonist Sonny Rollins' remark, decades ago, about Stan Tracey, the Ronnie Scott's house pianist who accompanied Rollins on many of his appearances at the London club. “Does anybody here realise how good he is?" asked Rollins rhetorically. Happily, times have changed and many ...
Julian Arguelles: Inner Voices
by Chris May
If a solo album by a saxophonist sounds a little dry and rigorous ... wait! Julian Arguelles' Inner Voices dodges any such preconceptions, delivering instead a melodic, foot-tapping hour of gentle, feel-good music. An album it closely resembles isn't in fact a solo saxophone album at all, but fellow British reed player Finn Peters' mellifluous Butterflies ...
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic - Africa's Greatest - A Retrospective - Vol. 1 1953 - 1980
by Chris May
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz Francophonic - Africa's Greatest - A Retrospective - Vol. 1 1953 - 1980 Sterns 2008 During his 35 year recording career, the Congolese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Franco released several hundred singles and around 150 albums. Where does the anthologist begin, and ...
Richard Galliano / Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Ten Years Ago
by Chris May
An energetic recording artist who since 2007 has been averaging three albums a year, accordionist Richard Galliano appears even more prolific because of the quick-fire diversity of contexts in which he places himself--solo, with his Tangaria quartet, with European and American jazz groups ranging from duos to larger lineups, and with strings. Between them, Galliano's albums ...
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