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Take A Bow: String Jazz
by David Rickert
Cat On a Hot Fiddle Stuff Smith 1959 Back in the thirties Stuff Smith entertained crowds at the Onyx Club with a blend of artistry, entertainment, and goofy facial expressions, all this on an instrument whose jazz credentials have always been suspect. Fortunately, he was able to bring the same degree of ...
The Contemporary Records Story
by David Rickert
Various Artists The Contemporary Records Story Contemporary 2004 While the East Coast is often heralded as the hotbed of jazz performance in the fifties both live and in the studio, there was also quite a bit of superb playing on the West Coast as well. Along with Pacific ...
Lee Konitz Quintet: Peacemeal
by David Rickert
Starting with his association with Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz proved to be a curious and creative player who over time has pursued some interesting musical ideas quite successfully. A few years after an excellent album of duets, Konitz recorded Peacemeal, a quintet album of hit-or-miss ideas that nevertheless remains an intriguing listen decades after its 1969 ...
Yusef Lateef: The Golden Flute
by David Rickert
It’s a shame that Yusef Lateef is relegated to the second tier of jazz musicians, left as an artist who is known more for his work as a sideman. His abilities as a multi-instrumentalist place him a category with Roland Kirk, yet with none of the acclaim. It’s true that on his Atlantic releases Lateef was ...
Tony Scott: Tony Scott
by David Rickert
Up until now the only Tony Scott currently available was two albums intended as background music for meditation, neither pointing to the jazz leanings of a artist who cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Carter, to name just two. This reissue of a 1967 Verve album amply documents Scott’s interest in Middle Eastern music, ...
Archie Shepp: The Cry of My People
by David Rickert
Archie Shepp is an artist whose work, while not always successful, nevertheless remains compelling and worth a listen. The Cry of My People is not his best effort, but one can respect his maverick approach to jazz scholarship that resists classification and challenges the notion of what can be defined as jazz. This album comes from ...
Phil Upchurch: Feeling Blue
by David Rickert
In 1967 many aspiring musicians picked up the guitar as their instrument of choice, but most were interested in becoming the next Bob Dylan rather than the next Wes Montgomery. It’s understandable, then, that Phil Upchurch’s debut as a leader got lost in the shuffle. At this point he had worked as a sideman with some ...
New LPRs: Shepp, Scott, and Lateef
by David Rickert
The Cry Of My People Archie Shepp 1972 Archie Shepp is an artist whose work, while not always successful, nevertheless remains compelling and worth a listen. The Cry of My People is not his best effort, but one can respect his maverick approach to jazz scholarship that resists classification and challenges the ...
Frank Sinatra: Young Blue Eyes: Birth of the Crooner
by David Rickert
A prophetic moment occurs on The Birth of a Crooner after the MC introduces Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. Dorsey responds, “you sure you don’t mean Frank Sinatra and his Orchestra?” The cover of the CD will lead one to believe that the bandleader knew what was coming, since Sinatra’s name occupies most of the cover ...
Bill Evans: New Jazz Conceptions
by David Rickert
The first album by any given artist is not likely to be their best, for obvious reasons: most are still developing a style and honing their craft. This 1956 session, Bill Evans’ first as a leader, is no different. The introverted pianist had to be virtually forced into recording as a leader, but these early explorations ...
