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Norrie Cox & His New Orleans Stompers: Dance Hall Days
by Dave Nathan
Has a New Orleans jazz renaissance been going on without a lot of attention given to it? Looks like it. Nagel Heyer, for example, has released several traditional jazz albums by Randy Sandke, George Masso, Byron Stripling and others. Now comes Norrie Cox and his New Orleans Stompers on their second album for the Delmark label ...
Chicago Underground Trio: Flamethrower
by Derek Taylor
‘Chicago Underground’ is an overarching appellation for a myriad of projects under Rob Mazurek’s nominal leadership. Its various guises include Duo, Trio and Orchestra incarnations. Peripheral to these associations Mazurek and his partners also work together in a variety of other outfits including Isotope 217 and Tortoise. All of these groups demonstrate a penchant for electro-acoustic ...
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio: Africa N'da Blues
by Derek Taylor
On this, their fifth album for Delmark, the Ritual Trio sticks to the formula that has served them well on past outings for the label, that of welcoming a legendary guest star into the fold. This time around Pharoah Sanders occupies the guest chair and his presence affects a wonderful series of alchemical changes both in ...
Harold Ousley: Grit-Gittin' Feelin'
by Derek Taylor
Chicago has long been the land of the larger than life jazz tenors. Boasting a lineage that stretches back generations the Windy City has birthed some of the music’s most venerated big-toned saxophonists. Clifford Jordan, Gene Ammons, Von Freeman, Fred Anderson and Eric Alexander are but a handful of the names belonging to this fraternity of ...
Chicago Underground Trio: Flamethrower
by AAJ Staff
For the Chicago Underground Trio, anything goes. On Flamethrower, swinging jazz wanders in and out of an otherwise very free field. The opening track, for example, starts with a six-note bass groove. Jeff Parker steps in for a crisp, swinging guitar solo, then the ensemble gradually travels into free jazz territory. Punchy clusters replace clean lines, ...
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio featuring Pharoah Sanders: Africa N'da Blues
by AAJ Staff
The aptly titled Africa N'da Blues is the Ritual Trio's fourth outing on Delmark. Most of the record explores the uniquely Afro-American space between African percussion and the '60s free jazz revolution. El'Zabar's group appears equally at home playing straight-ahead standards like “Autumn Leaves" or post-Coltrane material like the title track, but it really seems to ...
Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six: Control Freak
by Derek Taylor
The neo-Swing resurgence advanced by such colorfully-plumaged groups as the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies may have fizzled in the last few months, but the Quality Six continue to solider on. There debut record for Delmark Heretic Blues showcased a band whose eclecticism and musicianship stood them shoulders above the competition. Rather than simply ...
Malachi Thompson: Timeline
by Derek Taylor
Delmark’s been a watering hole for AACM musicians since the latter organization’s inception. The mutually supportive relationship is such that many of these musician’s have returned to the label over the years, some sporadically, others more frequently. Case in point, Roscoe Mitchell who cut his first session for Delmark (the seminal Sound ) in 1966 and ...
Dave Specter: Speculatin'
by Ed Kopp
Dave Specter is a blues guitarist whose music crosses over seamlessly into the jazz realm. Speculatin' is an all-instrumental album featuring a hot guitar-organ combo playing tunes derivative of Grant Green, the Meters, and various heavyweight blues guitarists.Like his one-time collaborator Ronnie Earl, Dave Specter's playing embraces jazz, gospel, New Orleans funk, Texas blues ...
Robert Ward: New Role Soul
by Ed Kopp
Robert Ward set an awfully high benchmark with his 1990 release Fear No Evil, a comeback album now considered a classic. New Role Soul is the work of a somewhat mellower man who remains an incredible musician at age 64. Propelled by the leader’s intricate guitar playing and animated vocals, this CD sounds better with each ...
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