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Bill Frisell Quartet
by Craig Jolley
Country music and jazz, musical cousins barely on speaking terms, both came of age in the 1920's. They have not really affected each other until lately, although their early histories have much in common. They emerged through back doors and depended heavily on irony and parody inherited through the blues. The phonograph record spread their popularity. ...
Hod O'Brien Trio
by Craig Jolley
Bud Powell-inspired pianist/composer Hod O'Brien came to maturity on the late-50's New York scene, gigging and recording in the company of Oscar Pettiford, Art Farmer, J.R. Monterose, and others. I first noticed him years ago on “Diffusion of Beauty," a piece of exotica he wrote for a three-trumpet record with Farmer, Donald Byrd, and Idrees Sulieman. ...
Brad Mehldau Trio
by Craig Jolley
Cal State Northridge University The band is everything with Brad Mehldau's trio. Beyond that the musicians play with a sense of openness and immediacy that allows the pieces to evolve as they're played. The tunes--mostly Mehldau originals from his recent Places CD--are generally abstractions that act as starting points. Mehldau generally leads melodically and harmonically, but ...
Charles McPherson Quartet
by Craig Jolley
Charles McPherson Quartet Westin Airport Hotel One of the best-known Charlie Parker disciples Charles McPherson occasionally ventures out from San Diego under favorable circumstances such when he gets the opportunity to play with a crackerjack trio. (He'll be back in LA in March to play a “Bird with Strings" concert.)McPherson's “Manhattan Nocturne" with ...
James Carney Trio
by Craig Jolley
Skirball Cultural Center, LA James Carney's piano style fits his compositional approach: percussive, eccentric, unpredictable, concise. After his theme statement he'll parse his way through a piece one segment at a time, working on that segment until he's ready to move on. Choruses are of indefinite length. The trio is very much of a group concept ...
Ray Drummond - Celebrating Mingus
by Craig Jolley
Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA Among Charles Mingus' legacies are any number of tribute bands. Celebrating Mingus is at least the fifth I've heard. Mingus Dynasty sprang up soon after Mingus died--a sextet of ex-Mingus sidemen including Danny Richmond and Jimmy Knepper authentically soloing on his music. With the music expanded to a bigger ...
Paquito D'Rivera - Triangulo
by Craig Jolley
Cal State Northridge University February 23, 2001 Triangulo would probably be called a World Music supergroup by an up-and-coming publicist. The players have enjoyed distinguished, separate careers as composers, conductors, musicologists, and performers. After collaborating occasionally on various projects the ensemble was formed at Rutgers University and has toured internationally. Their repertoire comes from ...
Open The Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter
by Craig Jolley
Open The Door William R. Bauer Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 019514838X Betty Carter came up as a bebop-only singer in the late 40's. She gradually broadened and deepened her music, enduring what she perceived as failed career over the next 25 years. Beginning with an engagement at the Keystone ...
Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet
by Craig Jolley
Bill Cunliffe Latin Jazz Nonet Spazio Sherman Oaks, CA February 16, 2004 As with his other projects Bill Cunliffe's new band runs in an intelligent, fresh direction. An outgrowth of his straight-ahead sextet, the key to this band (besides the extra percussion) is the double trombones with the ...
Kenny Dorham: 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia
by Craig Jolley
Trumpeter Kenny Dorham played extensively with Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and other New York heavyweights of the 1950's and 60's. He was a hot player, but he never built up his technique to the point where he could cut the most daring passages like his contemporaries Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie ...
