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The Blue Note 7: Mosaic: A Celebration of Blue Note Records
by Chris May
2009 is the 70th anniversary of the birth of Blue Note, the label founded in New York by German emigre Alfred Lion. During its mid-1950s to mid-1960s heyday, it was practically synonymous with hard bop, nurturing a great many of its leading artists and recording dozens upon dozens of classic albums. 2009 is also the 25th anniversary ...
Joshua Redman: Compass
by Chris May
Like its predecessor Back East (Nonesuch, 2007), saxophonist Joshua Redman's Compass invites comparisons with Sonny Rollins' totemic acoustic trio outing Way Out West (Riverside, 1957), whose instrumentation it reflects and whose influence Redman has acknowledged. Another Rollins album which springs to mind, though more for its title than its structure, is Saxophone Colossus (Riverside, ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: A Trickster Sensibility
by Chris May
Is Taylor Ho Bynum the most extraordinary cornet player to emerge since Louis Armstrong? It's beginning to look that way. With a vast sonic vocabulary, blessed with soaring lyricism, fearlessly forward looking yet with a hotline to gut bucket primitivism, Bynum, still in his early 30s, is already a singular and thrilling artist. Two ...
Eliane Elias: Bossa Nova Stories
by Chris May
For most people, bossa nova began in 1962, the year tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's album Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) and 45rpm pull “Desafinado" stormed up the pop albums and singles charts. That fall, “Desafinado" sold approaching 500,000 copies and by the year's end America had gone bossa nova crazy. But in its birthplace, Brazil, bossa nova ...
The Will Collier Septet: Everybody Loves The Will Collier Septet
by Chris May
To name your debut album with a knowing reference to the titles producer Orrin Keepnews gave to breakthrough releases by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Wes Montgomery--Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Riverside, 1958) and The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (Riverside, 1960)--takes either a lot of nerve or a very British touch of self-deprecating humour. Everybody ...
The Sam Crockatt Quartet: Howeird
by Chris May
Tenor saxophonist Sam Crockatt is a founder member of London's Loop Collective, an association of up and coming musicians linked in philosophy and purpose to the city's longer established F-IRE Collective. Several F-IRE musicians--saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, trumpeter Tom Arthurs, drummer Seb Rochford, and cellist Ben Davis amongst them--are already major league bandleaders on ...
Curtis Fuller: The Opener
by Chris May
Detroit-born trombonist Curtis Fuller stepped into the hard bop big league during the summer of 1957 with a flurry of high profile sideman dates and two albums as leader, New Trombone (Prestige, 1957) and The Opener, made within a few weeks of each other. The Opener, a lithe and soulful but largely forgotten disc, has been ...
Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums
by Chris May
Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz created by an emergent generation of Brazilian songwriters led by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, bossa nova (meaning “new flair" or ...
Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland and Roy Haynes: Question and Answer
by Chris May
Question and Answer is the second in a glittering, altogether too infrequent series of albums guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded in acoustic trio settings, usually on the hoof and with little post-production, which act as a counterweight to his more elaborate work with larger line-ups. Recorded in 1989 and originally released on Geffen, it's been immaculately ...
Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek: Upojenie
by Chris May
An oddity this one, even within the variegated discography of Pat Metheny. It features the guitarist alongside Polish singer Anna Maria Jopek and a group of mostly Polish musicians, recorded in Warsaw during 2002. Half the set features lyricised and re-titled versions of Metheny compositions, sung in Polish; the other half are originals composed in the ...
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