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Ed Calle: Sunset Harbor
by Jim Santella
Smooth jazz is comprised of blended sounds, hummable melodies, fluid embellishment, and a steady comfortable one-two-three-four beat. In the same way that the music fades in and out to create 3- to 4-minute excerpts, the listener’s attention tends to come and go. Thus, smooth jazz finds a home wherever and whenever folks want relaxing background music ...
Ed Calle: Sunset Harbor
by Jack Bowers
More smooth Jazz, albeit with a more discernible pulse than some we’ve heard. Although axophonist Ed Calle, who was born in Venezuela, blends Latin rhythms to spice his music, it has been no less carefully sanitized for your protection. In other words, it remains closely related to Kenny G, in spite of Calle’s impressive credentials and ...
Chick Corea and Origin: A Week at the Blue Note
by Douglas Payne
Like his former boss, Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea isn't comfortable in one place for too long. Nor, thankfully, does he seem to want to retread his own past. After a lengthy run of his Elektric/Akoustic band (1986-1993), a solo record, several all-star projects and a reunion with Gary Burton (1997's Native Sense ), ...
Brother Jack McDuff: Bringin' It Home
by Ed Kopp
Over the course of a nearly 40-year career, Jack McDuff's recorded output has been consistently good if unspectacular, and this latest release is no exception. On Bringin' It Home, the 72-year-old Hammond B-3 organist reunites with some of the ex-sidemen he helped to make famous: George Benson (guitar), Red Holloway (tenor sax), and Mark Whitfield (guitar).
Brother Jack McDuff: Bringin' It Home
by Jack Bowers
Another funky, blues–drenched date by Hammond B–3 impresario Brother Jack McDuff and an assortment of intrepid soulmates who excel at bringin’ it home (and cookin’ it with the appropriate seasonings and garnishes). Every recording by McDuff is in a sense predictable, as one knows in advance that there’ll be an abundant supply of down–home music with ...
Stan Getz Quartet with Chet Baker: Quintessence, Vol. 1
by Jack Bowers
So Stan Getz and Chet Baker weren’t the best of friends offstage. It’s what they accomplished onstage that is of greatest interest to Jazz historians and most other listeners. Apparently, they were able to set aside their personal differences long enough at least to make lovely music together, as they sometimes do on Quintessence, a concert ...
Gene Harris and the Philip Morris All-Stars: Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Good News/Bad News. The editors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette sum up Gene Harris' craft by stating that, “Harris is always going to end up making the same record, but so far it still sounds pretty good". I agree. Gene Harris, Ray Bryant, Junior Mance, and Monty Alexander all play ...
Charlie Byrd: My Inspiration
by Jim Santella
Born 1925 in Virginia, guitarist Charlie Byrd started his professional career shortly after World War II touring with jazz bands such as that of saxophonist Joe Marsala. In his early twenties, the guitarist learned the ropes while on the road from Chicago to New York and Washington, D.C. He later studied guitar with Andrés Segovia and ...
Stan Getz Quartet With Chet Baker: Quintessence, Vol. 1
by Jim Santella
What a pair! Stan Getz and Chet Baker in 1983 before a live audience in Norway. Two icons of the jazz world performing standards. With talk of a pending feature-length movie about Chet Baker fresh on the horizon, remembering his clean trumpet sound and his singing voice at this time seems quite appropriate. Baker left us ...
Maynard Ferguson: Brass Attitude
by John Sharpe
Maynard has scaled back the personnel of his orchestra in recent years but his 10-piece Big Bob Nouveau still packs a hefty punch. They provide plenty of brassy backing and rhythmic muscle for Maynard's lip-busting high note gyrations. Although he has recently shown a certain degree of restraint, the seventy-year-old trumpeter is still capable of uncorking ...
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