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Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
by David Rickert
Paul Austerlitz Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0-8195-6782-5 260 pages 2005 Jazz Consciousness works from the premise that jazz, while often classified as a strictly American art form, embodies a sense of inclusiveness that not only influences other genres, but also ...
Great Guitars: Herb Ellis, Howard Roberts, and Jimmy Raney
by David Rickert
Verve's inaugural edition of the “Verve Originals series features a handful of long out-of- print guitar jazz classics. No more cardboard like the LPRs and VMEs; these are jewel cases, but features the same excellent reissues of both those series. Here's hoping Barry Galbraith's Guitar In the Wind comes out in the next batch. ...
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live at Slug's, NYC
by David Rickert
Many of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers left the group to build successful careers of their own. However, in between Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter and the Marsalises was this curious 1968 band, made up largely of talented unknowns. This particular version of the band never made it into the studio, and this live recording from Slug's ...
Tommy Dorsey: Livin' In A Great Big Way
by David Rickert
Peter J. Levinson Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way Da Capo Press 352 pages ISBN: 0306811111 To the people who played with him, Tommy Dorsey was a real S.O.B. To millions of others, he was one of the greatest big band leaders, providing the soundtrack that ...
Glenn Miller: In the Mood
by David Rickert
One Of the Kings Of Swing While many people argued whether Goodman or Shaw was the better musician, nobody during the Swing Era could ignore that Glenn Miller left both of them in his wake once he hit the scene. Sure, the bespectacled, tight-lipped bandleader seemed more like the leader of a choir than a swing ...
Yusef Lateef, Gabor Szabo, Oliver Nelson and Albert Ayler: LPRs from Impulse!
by David Rickert
Yusef Lateef Psychicemotus Impulse! 2005 (1965) Yusef Lateef had the misfortune of playing in a very crowded field of Coltrane and Dolphy enthusiasts and thus his records, which are always compelling and dynamic, tend to get ignored. Part of the problem may be that Lateef's records featured a kaleidoscope of ...
In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man Of Jazz
by David Rickert
Donald M. Marquis In Search Of Buddy Bolden: First Man Of Jazz Louisiana University Press 256 pages ISBN: 0-8071-3093-1 When In Search of Buddy Bolden first came out in 1978, it was a landmark work filled with a staggering amount of research on the legendary trumpeter. Bolden was ...
The First Community Church Chancel Choir with Jazz Quintet: Sacred Jazz and Spirituals
by David Rickert
Although jazz musicians have been dabbling with spiritual music for years, few have combined the two into an entire worship service. Ronald Jenkins, the musical director of First Community Church in Columbus, Ohio, is not one to shy away from such a task. His past achievements include a service comprised of Mozart's music and a patriotic ...
Understanding Jazz: Ways To Listen
by David Rickert
Tom Piazza Understanding Jazz: Ways To Listen Random House 201 pages ISBN: 1-4000-6369-8 Beware jazz snobs! This book isn't for you. For one thing, it was produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which you probably can't stand, and it features an introduction from Wynton Marsalis, who you probably ...
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
by David Rickert
Thelonious Monk's solo recordings offer fascinating insight into the compositional and improvisational talents of one of music's true oddballs, and Alone In San Francisco is widely considered to be his best in this format. Unencumbered by bass and drums, Monk is at his most introspective, taking advantage of the liquid tempo to patiently work ...
