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Miles Davis: Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
by Jim Santella
“Directions" begins each of these sets, which reflect the change in direction that Miles Davis was pursuing with his landmark albums that had already been recorded in the late 1960s. Bitches Brew had not yet been released, when Davis and his band opened for The Steve Miller Blues Band and Neil Young & Crazy Horse in ...
E.S.T.: Somewhere Else Before
by Jim Santella
The Esbjörn Svensson Trio offers natural sounds with innovative extras. Formed in 1993, the piano trio plays straight-ahead jazz the way we remember it, and the way it should live forever. They've released six CDs in Sweden so far. This album is a collection of tracks from their last two CDs: From Gagarin's Point of View ...
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of Japan
by Wayne Zade
Like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and their groups, Dave Brubeck and his first great quartet were among the first jazz musicians after World War II to travel diplomatically in the service of peace throughout the world. Armstrong released Ambassador Satch in 1955, and Brubeck released The Real Ambassadors, with Armstrong, Carmen McRae, and others, seven years ...
Miles Davis: The Essential Miles Davis
by Todd S. Jenkins
There can't be too many musical tasks as daunting as trying to trim Miles Davis' prodigious output down into two discs worth of “essentials". No matter how much time and thought went into this amazing package, arguments are sure to ensue for years to come. That said, reissue producers Michael Cuscuna and Bob Belden have done ...
Wynton Marsalis: Popular Songs: The Best Of Wynton Marsalis
by Jim Santella
He played the archetypal bandleader in the film Tune In Tomorrow. Clean-living, occupied with his profession, and a hard-working artist, Wynton Marsalis managed his acting role in much the same way he manages his career. There are mixed opinions of his celebrity status. A spokesman for jazz long before the Ken Burns documentary, this prolific trumpeter ...
Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
by Jim Santella
Three previously unissued performances and six months of Miles Davis' recording activity mark this 3-CD set as something special. This was a transitional time for the bandleader. It marked the beginning of a fusion. The package documents this period very well. Davis wanted a new sound. With several keyboards and significant changes in personnel, he got ...
Thelonious Monk: Monk in Tokyo
by AAJ Staff
Columbia Legacy Jazz recordings, the reissue department of Columbia Jazz, has seriously upped the ante on documenting Thelonious Monk's Columbia work with two more fine, fine Monk reissues. As those may be familiar, Columbia re- released both Monk: Live at the It Club, and Monk Alone (solo piano)- within the past three years. Now come these ...
George Benson: The George Benson Cookbook
by John Sharpe
While the phenomenal success of George Benson’s Breezin’ (1976) album may have fattened his wallet; it led the guitarist down a path that dismayed jazz critics worldwide. Indeed, the bulk of Benson’s albums over the past 20 years have featured considerably less jazz and, unfortunately, more pop. Not so with The George Benson Cookbook (1966). This ...
Miles Davis: The Essential Miles Davis
by Michael Fortuna
It is possible to boil a musician's extensive career down into two CDs.This year, in honor of what would have been trumpeter Miles Davis' 75th birthday, Columbia/Legacy Recordings has compiled The Essential Miles Davis, a collection that spans nearly four decades of Davis' eclectic career.From “So What" to “Miles Runs the Voodoo ...
Thelonious Monk: Live At The Jazz Workshop
by Jim Santella
In the same year that Thelonious Monk appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, he recorded several live sessions for Columbia. This 2-CD set features two and a half hours at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop, recorded November 3rd and 4th, 1964 with his working quartet. Nearly half the reissue consists of previously unreleased material. The rest, ...
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