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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 ...
Von Freeman & Ed Petersen: Von & Ed
by Derek Taylor
Down and dirty cutting contests are nothing new in Jazz and their allure seems to transcend any idiomatic boundaries in the music. There’s a long lineage to draw on from the spirited jousts of Lester Young and Herschel Evans in the early incarnations of Basie’s Orchestra to Long Tall Dex and Wardell Gray slugging it out ...
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Freedom Jazz Dance
by Derek Taylor
Kahil El’Zabar remains one of the reigning visionaries on the Chicago creative music scene. There is a consistency in his approach to his craft that carries through to all of his various recordings and working groups. His predilection for recycling compositions is tempered by the certainty that each new reading will result in something completely different ...
Francine Griffin: The Song Bird
by Derek Taylor
Jazz singing like other modes of jazz expression can be an acquired taste. Everyone has a voice, but finding a voice in song can be a lifelong challenge. If the music on this disc is any indication, Ms. Griffin found her a long while ago and has been plying a soulfully swinging croon ever since. Her ...
Eddie Johnson: Love You Madly
by Derek Taylor
Johnson is a prime example of the what I like to call the Iceberg Theory, the unwritten phenomenon in jazz which states that those who are recording the music regularly are only ‘tip of the iceberg’ when it comes to the sheer numbers of musicians who are actually playing and performing jazz and usually go unnoticed. ...
Barney Bigard & Art Hodes: Bucket's Got a Hole In It
by Derek Taylor
On the occasion of these sessions Ellington alum Bigard and Hodes, one of the most of revered proponents of classic New Orleans inspired jazz found themselves thrown together for the taping of a series of television concerts. Seizing the opportunity to make several sidetrips to the studio the two recorded the baker’s dozen of tracks collected ...
Percy Humphrey w/ the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag
by Derek Taylor
What’s not to love here? Six venerable patriarchs of classic New Orleans jazz reconvening for a rollicking trip down memory lane. As far as Hot Jazz goes it doesn’t get much more combustible than this. The roster reads like the roll call for a dream Dixieland band. The indefatigable Robinson, for years George Lewis’ right hand ...
Archie Shepp w/ the Ritual Trio: Conversations
by Derek Taylor
Archie Shepp has long held a special distinction as one of the pioneers of the so-called New Thing in jazz. Possessed of a sharp intellect and a deep pride in his African heritage he was one of the most vocal and uncompromising skeptics, challenging both his peers and himself to question not only musical conventions but ...
