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Henry Darragh: Tell Her For Me
by David Rickert
By any standard--no pun intended--"Everything Happens To Me" is a terrific song. It has clever lyrics and a catchy melody, and when both are put together each enhances the other. Henry Darragh's version on his debut, Tell Her For Me, is a reminder of this fact; no one writes songs this great anymore. Darragh is a ...
Vince Guaraldi: The Definitive Vince Guaraldi
by David Rickert
Many of us were turned on to jazz before we even knew what it was, thanks to Vince Guaraldi. His soundtracks for the Peanuts television specials were a novel idea in cartoon scoring, yet seemed to perfectly fit the deceptively sophisticated adventures of Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang. His originals were some ...
Dave Evans: Sad Pig Dance
by David Rickert
One way that guitarists expand the harmonic possibilities of their instrument is through the use of open tunings. By tuning the guitar differently than the standard EADGBE arrangement (for instance, to an open chord), a whole new world of sounds and textures becomes available. New age guitarists were quick to adopt this method to ...
Various Artists: Contemporary Ragtime Guitar
by David Rickert
Most people's knowledge of ragtime doesn't go past a few classic Scott Joplin compositions, and practitioners of the style today (not to mention composers) are few and far between. However, there has always been a small cadre of guitarists devoted to playing traditional and original ragtime tunes, and most of them are quite good at adapting ...
Davey Graham: The Complete Guitarist
by David Rickert
Davey Graham never found a style of guitar playing that he didn't want to master. In fact, he was such a perfectionist that he recorded infrequently, preferring not to commit any tunes to wax until he had thoroughly explored all the avenues that each tune had to offer. From ragas to ragtime, Graham did it all, ...
Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade
by David Rickert
In the six years that he was active in the music industry, Scott LaFaro had a more notable career than many other bassists have in a much larger lifetime. He was a member of the Bill Evans Trio, one of the greatest piano trios of all time, and participated in Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960), ...
Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class
by David Rickert
Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class David Savran Hardcover; 336 pages ISBN: 978-0-472-11692-8 University of Michigan Press 2009 Jazz was blamed for many of the societal ills of the 1920s, and with Highbrow/Lowdown David Savran considers, with intelligence, one ...
Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
by David Rickert
Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz James Howland Hardcover; 360 pages ISBN: 978-0-472-11605-8 University of Michigan Press 2009 Ellington Uptown addresses the development of concert jazz, a largely neglected style that emerged near the beginning of the ...
James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game
by David Rickert
Had Ira Gitler not encountered John Coltrane and heard James Blackshaw instead, he might have used his famous “sheets of sound" to describe the guitarist's music. Blackshaw uses his twelve-string guitar to create giant waves of chords that repeat motifs, creating a harmonious and meditative music that is like new age music for the intelligentsia. New ...
Davey Graham / Dave Evans / Duck Baker / Dan Ar Bras: Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, and Airs
by David Rickert
Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, and Airs is the rare acoustic guitar CD that isn't dominated by Leo Kottke-style wizardry or a John Fahey influence. It's also a rare example of Irish music played traditionally and not with the ethereal trappings of new age music. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that it's necessary to travel back to ...
