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Richard Galliano & Tangaria Quartet: Live In Marciac 2006
by Chris May
Accordionist Richard Galliano's Tangaria Quartet made its studio debut earlier this year with the thrilling Luz Negra (Milan Records, 2007), recorded in Brazil. The group's warm-up gig for those sessions happened a month earlier, in August 2006, at France's Marciac Festival, and, happily, the performance was recorded. Like the studio set, Live In Marciac ...
Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble: Refuge
by Chris May
Something of a polymath amongst the general corpus of jazz musicians, Israeli-born reed player Gilad Atzmon, London-based since 1994, is not only a prolific performer and recording artist, but also a novelist, political essayist and campaigning anti-Zionist. Atzmon's books--his most recent, My One And Only Love (Saqi Books, 2004), is a comic satire about a Jewish ...
Ethiopia: The Last Days of Ras Tafari & Mali: Salif Keita Launches Wanda Label
by Chris May
This month, traditional music from Mali and more recent, jazz and funk cross-pollinated styles from Ethiopia. The Very Best Of Ethiopiques chronicles the work of artists in Addis Ababa during the final, surreal years of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's rule. Boula and Baba are two roots albums on Malian singer Salif Keita's newly formed label, Wanda ...
Mayra Andrade: Navega
by Chris May
Until now, for most people, the music of the Cape Verde islands has started and finished with the singer Cesaria Evora, who arrived on the international stage, aged 47, with the album La Diva Aux Pieds Nus (Lusafrica, 1988), becoming a festival-headlining world music star with Miss Perfumado (Lusafrica, 1992). Evora's style is called morna, and ...
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others: Gypsy Jazz
by Chris May
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others Gypsy Jazz Proper Records 2007 This wonderful 4CD collection of Gypsy jazz--an Aladdin's Cave of rarities, curiosities and lesser known virtuosi of the genre--covers the first twenty or so years of the music's history. Disc one starts in 1934, with future Quintette Du Hot ...
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen: The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live
by Chris May
Like the British pianist Stan Tracey, the Danish bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen served a lengthy apprenticeship accompanying US stars playing the European club circuit. In the 1960s in London, Tracey was the pianist in the Ronnie Scott Jazz Club's house band, while Pedersen held down a similar gig at Copenhagen's Montmartre Jazzhus. Tracey and Pedersen benefited ...
Bembeya Jazz National & Tabu Ley: Masterpieces From The Guinean And Congolese Belle Epoques
by Chris May
An irony of post-1980s world music is that it has sustained an interest in the earlier, belle epoque musical styles of post-colonial Africa, elements of which it reshaped and recalibrated for a global audience--not necessarily to either their detriment or advantage, but whose evolution it nonetheless influenced and accelerated. Now more than ever, the belle epoque's ...
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport
by Chris May
Complete recordings of saxophonist John Coltrane's 1963 and 1965 Newport Festival appearances, most of the material on My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport has been available before. Most, but crucially, not all--the disc includes some eight minutes of previously unreleased music. When you're talking about the incandescent Coltrane quartet of the mid 1960s, that's a ...
Mytha: How It All Started
by Chris May
Extraordinary is an over-used word, but it applies to this album, and then some. The music is made almost entirely by Swiss alphorns, heavy wooden horns ten-to-twelve feet long, straight except for their bulbous curved bells, which rest on the ground, the player standing at the business end, gripping the instrument's neck with both hands and, ...
Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble: Expectation
by Chris May
The young Swiss label Kind Of Blue, after a patchy start which included some pretty cheesy projects, is beginning to hit a more formidable stride. Two 2007 releases, pianist Mark Soskin's One Hopeful Day, a fine band album made luminous by saxophonist Chris Potter, and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's For Sentimental Reasons, all silk sheets and flickering ...
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