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Oliver Lake: Upwards & Outwards
by Nic Jones
Oliver Lake has always had an innate grasp of musical tradition that extends beyond jazz to encompass other areas of African American musical expression, and the effect of this on his music has always been beneficial. Allied to this have been two other virtues, namely his abiding fascination with the work of Eric Dolphy, perhaps unsurprisingly ...
Horace Parlan & Oscar Peterson: Keys To The City
by Nic Jones
Like any other instrument, the piano reflects the personality of the musician playing it. This truism applies to both Horace Parlan and Oscar Peterson, and the contrast between their respective styles is not wanting in starkness. Both players are virtuosos, though Parlan's virtuosity is of a radically different order to Peterson's. Where Parlan brings echoes of ...
Warne Marsh Quartet
by Nic Jones
Throughout the history of the music players have relied upon licks as staples of their musical vocabulary, phrases or turns of phrase which, whilst they haven't been the be-all and end-all of any musician's style, have been an integral part of too many styles to discuss here. Warne Marsh was one of the starkest exceptions to ...
Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake "The Newest Sound Around" (1961) and Tina May & Nikki Iles "Change Of Sky" (1997)
by Nic Jones
The current fuss over largely photogenic female singers is doing a disservice both to the music itself and to those singers who, regardless of whether or not they wish to be defined in terms of their physical appearance, are caught up in the superficial values of the times in which we live, the unwritten strictures of ...
Stan Getz 'Award Winner' (1957) Bob Cooper 'For All We Know' (1990)
by Nic Jones
Stan Getz will always be admired for the purity of his tenor saxophone tone, spawned by Lester Young, personalized and polished to dazzling point by Getz. Indeed, for the latter part of his career he used it to disguise the fact that he often coasted. That stage was still some way in the future when he ...
Sonny Criss: Go Man! (1956) and Out Of Nowhere (1975)
by Nic Jones
Sonny Criss was never a musical innovator. He was however a stylist of exceptional originality whose music on record is a working definition of soul in the best sense of that term. An abiding aspect of his work is the feeling that he played each and every note as though it were his last, and that ...
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