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Ralph Sutton: In Copenhagen
by Chris Mosey
Ralph Sutton, “The Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players," was 54 and in peak form when these tracks were recorded over three days during a visit to the Danish capital in 1977. It is difficult to imagine Sutton, as a boy, playing organ at the Presbyterian church in Howell, Missouri, where he grew up. From the ...
Red Mitchell / Warne Marsh: Big Two
by Chris Mosey
In the 1950s, critics talked of East and West coast jazz. It was a way of playing the racial card, with East coast representing black, played from the gut; while West was white, played from the mind. As far as the dogmatists were concerned: East good, West bad. The word “cerebral" became a term of abuse. ...
Duke Jordan: In Copenhagen
by Chris Mosey
Irving Stanley “Duke" Jordan, pianist in legendary altoist Charlie Parker's classic quintet, recorded this solo album late in life. It shows he had lost none of the qualities that led Bird to pick him to take part--along with trumpeter Miles Davis, bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Max Roach--in such landmark recordings as “Bird of Paradise," “Dewey ...
Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel: In Our Own Sweet Way
by Chris Mosey
After Paris, Copenhagen was the European refuge for American jazz musicians fleeing racial and sometimes political oppression in their homeland in the postwar years. Ben Webster is buried there (in the same cemetery as Søren Kierkegaard), Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin locked horns there. Such greats created a solid local scene, which continues to produce some ...
Steven Bernstein / Marcus Rojas / Kresten Osgood: Tattoos and Mushrooms
by Chris Mosey
The line-up of slide trumpet, tuba and drums is, to say the least, somewhat unusual in jazz. As is the choice of Hank Williams' “So Lonesome I Could Cry" as a vehicle for improvisation. On Tattoos and Mushrooms, trumpeter Steven Bernstein, tubaist Marcus Rojas and drummer Kresten Osgood go boldly into aural regions where no man ...
Phil Parnell (featuring Lillian Boutte): That Don't Keep Me From Cookin In A Gumbo Pot
by Chris Mosey
Phil Parnell knows what it means to miss New Orleans. Having lived in the city from 1965 until 1996, he swapped the heat and the scent of magnolia and southern fried chicken for the chill and the rebarbative reek of fireweed and fish and chips of Walthamstow, East London. “I have been to a good many ...
Jay McShann: In Copenhagen
by Chris Mosey
Jay “Hootie" McShann was like one of those Russian dolls that you knock down and they bounce right up again. Right up until his death in 2006 at the age of 90, he was one of the jazz world's great survivors. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1916, his spiritual and musical home was Kansas City, where ...
Jacob Karlzon: Heat / Improvisational Three
by Chris Mosey
Jacob Karlzon is one of the most interesting pianists on today's Swedish jazz scene--percussive, intense, yet capable of great lyricism. Unwilling to be pigeonholed, he plays in a great many different constellations, most visibly with vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy, great granddaughter of Leo, for whom he composes and arranges. At the age of 39, Karlzon has already ...
Jean-Simon Maurin Trio and Elin Wrede: Djupa Andetag
by Chris Mosey
Djupa Andetag means “deep breaths" in Swedish. They're something that can be easily taken in the unpolluted atmosphere of Scandinavia. And at its best, Jean-Simon Maurin's music--light and lyrical, greatly influenced by pianist Bill Evans--is as fresh as a Baltic summer breeze. There's introspection but--perhaps because of his French ancestry--none of the brooding melancholy that is ...
Erik Soderlind: Twist For Jimmy Smith
by Chris Mosey
Erik Söderlind is a young man in no particular hurry. Not yet 30, he plays jazz guitar with supreme assurance, and on his debut album Twist For Jimmy Smith, he has put together a lovely, leisurely paced, always swinging collection of standards and originals that deserves worldwide recognition. Of course, he's unlikely to get it. We ...
