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Grant Green: Goin' West
by Colin Fleming
Tempting as it is to dismiss this Grant Green album as the sixties' slant on lite jazz, overriding talent, as one would expect, has a tendency to compensate for a decided lack of risk taking, the very virtue, considering the quality of these players, that could have elevated Goin' West to a minor classic. Recorded in ...
Baby Dodds: Talking and Drum Solos (1946)
by Colin Fleming
"Spooky Drums No. 1," so-titled for the relative unfamiliarity of a drummer finding a studio all to himself, is as good an introduction to this man's art as any, and I suggest you hear it. The first in line, chronologically, of the great jazz drummers, Baby Dodds, who played and recorded with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, ...
Joy Division: Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
by Colin Fleming
With a recorded legacy once founded almost exclusively on two studio albums, the last couple of years has seen the basis of Joy Division's stature as one of rock and roll's greatest bands shift to a series of live releases. The latest, Les Bains Douches, is highlighted by a nine song set recorded at the Parisian ...
The Velvet Underground: Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
by Colin Fleming
A sprawling triple-disc album featuring over three and a half hours of music, The Quine Tapes is also an especially historic one. Despite two previously issued live albums, the Velvets' live legacy had suggested more than it revealed. 1969 was a fine, arresting document, but lacked both “Foggy Notion" and “Sister Ray," setlist cornerstones, the two ...
Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981
by Colin Fleming
Being in the minority in my feelings for Glenn Gould's second Goldberg Variations, I feel it wise to add that I do not necessarily prefer them to his more famous 1955 recordings, as an admirer might. Yet there is something in the second Goldberg Variations, taped four months before Gould's death, that I more frequently return ...
The Miles Davis Story
by Colin Fleming
A virulent sort of man with a bent for misogyny, selfishness, and a deep rooted, almost fanatical racism, Miles Davis, as his music asserted and any thoughtful analysis confirms, was also one of jazz's three or four greatest artists, an individual belonging to group of men with sublime and graceful talent who also happen to embody ...
The Sound of Jazz
by Colin Fleming
Oddly omitting Thelonious Monk, this DVD presentation of CBS Television's The Sound of Jazz still rates near the top of jazz on the small screen, albeit in a somewhat diminished capacity, lagging behind the earlier VHS release. But for most jazz fans, any edition of The Sound of Jazz still boasts, regardless of drawbacks, the ultimate ...
The New York Times Essential Library--Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
by Colin Fleming
Jazz, like several twentieth century art forms, has for decades seemed to gain acceptance as a scholarly concern in part because of a number of renowned writers and critics heralding something that was once, remarkably, regarded as vulgar, base entertainment for the base masses, and now deemed America's indigenous artistic progeny. As with James Agee and ...
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
by Colin Fleming
Principally a concert film of Jimi Hendrix's set at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, his last British date, Blue Wild Angel begins, not with the show itself, but with material gathered from several sources. We see Hendrix with Dick Cavett, at Berkeley, and at Woodstock, each image and bit of narration presumably a primer for ...
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