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The Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas
by Paul Abella
At first glance, this doesn't look like a jazz record, with that big picture of what might be a robot on the front--and three thugs on the back looking like they just stepped out of the garage. But look closer. The Bad Plus is one of the most unique piano trios you are ever ...
The Bad Plus: These are the Vistas
by Jeff Stockton
Sure, the Bad Plus is a piano trio. Just a modern take on one. On These Are The Vistas, the group's major label debut, these three players present a decidedly more contemporary vision of the concept. “Big Eater" begins ominously, before its disjointed beat turns martial. Drummer Dave King's attack is alternately aggressive, delicate, and swinging. ...
Miles Davis: Porgy and Bess
by Robert Gilbert
In jazz, only a handful of albums never lose their lustre. Each listening is a magical experience, no matter how familiar the material has become. The second collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Porgy and Bess, is one such distinctive recording. Davis and Evans’ recasting of the George Gershwin opera was their followup ...
Louis Armstrong: Love Songs
by AAJ Staff
The first thing to notice about this lovingly-crafted collection is its clarity. So much so, that listeners might be send fumbling for the liner notes to see that these tracks originally appeared not in the digital era, but deep in the analog and pre-analog days. Though some of these sides date back to the Depression, even ...
Dave Brubeck: Love Songs
by AAJ Staff
For over 50 years, Dave Brubeck has been sitting quietly behind the keys making some of the biggest sounds in jazz. He’s worked with Davis and Evans and played the music of Porter, Gillespie and even Disney. However, much if not most of his best work was with his trusted quartet, backed by the rhythms of ...
Harry Connick, Jr.: 30
by AAJ Staff
Released four years after the fact (the younger Connick is now 34), the New Orleans’ District Attorney’s favorite son has released another of his bi-decade birthday albums. As with 20 and 25, Connick has chosen a selection of standards, along with three of his personal musical heroes with whom to perform them. Opening with a rollicking ...
Miles Davis: Love Songs
by AAJ Staff
Throughout his long, varied and storied career, Miles Davis was known for many things. As the father/godfather/originator/pioneer of bop, hard bop, fusion and other styles, Miles’s 40+ albums revealed a diverse array of styles and sounds. Through it all, however, Miles maintained his trademark poise and lyricism, often best expressed through his ballads. On this collection, ...
Jeff "Tain" Watts: Citizen Tain
by AAJ Staff
As one of the most visible drummers of his generation, Tonight Show rhythm man Jeff “Tain" Watts was not going to bring his own compositions out with just anyone! So, he joined forces with old band mate (and Leno connector) Branford Marsalis (who also produced the album). Watts also reunited the sax-y Marsalis with his horn- ...
Harry Connick, Jr.: Come by Me
by AAJ Staff
After some time in the land of New Orleans Funk, Harry Connick, Jr. has returned to the orchestral standards which first got him noticed and which have since garnered him multi-platinum, Grammy-winning fame. On Come By Me, Connick combines familiar originals with thoroughly represented selections from the Great American Songbook. These tunes include a punchy take ...
Thelonious Monk's Straight, No Chaser: Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Straight, No Chaser; Pannonica; Trinkle, Tinkle; Ugly Beauty (rehearsal); Ugly Beauty; Epistrophy; Evidence; I Mean You (Stickball); Lulu's Back In Town; Don't Blame Me; Sweetheart of All My Dreams; 'Round Midnight; Straight, No Chaser.
