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Billy Strayhorn: Piano Passion
by Andrew Velez
During their nearly three decades of working together, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington created a legacy of music for the ages. This set offers a rare opportunity to hear Strayhorn the composer playing many of his own songs, as well as some he wrote with Ellington and others. Their partnership began in 1939 and ended only ...
Tony Bennett: The Complete Improv Recordings
by Andrew Rowan
Once upon a time the line between jazz singing and jazz-tinged popular singing was blurred. Singers like Mabel Mercer, Sylvia Syms and Bobby Short roamed the borders between jazz, pop and cabaret, and the world was better for it. On the jazz side, singers like Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Carmen McRae and Shirley Horn looked across ...
February 2006
by AAJ Staff
With the albums Lay Up and Bigmouth (both on Fresh Sound), bassist Chris Lightcap has articulated a powerful two-tenor concept with the aid of Tony Malaby, Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver. In recent months he's added pianist Craig Taborn to this volatile mix. At Cornelia Street Café (Jan. 6th), the group did its spacious funky ...
Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project: Move
by Andrew Velez
Listening to Bireli Lagrène's renditions of “Melodie au Crepuscule and “Hungaria instantly recalls his deeply bonded connection with the music, the style, and the sound of guitar legend Django Reinhardt. As inevitable as the Django connection seems to be, there is nothing shallow or merely imitative about Lagrène's playing. As this latest set attests, he's a ...
Ray Barretto: Time Was - Time Is
by Russ Musto
Ray Barretto continues to refine his brand of swinging, Latin-inflected jazz with each succeeding release. On Time Was - Time Is, the venerable conguero leads a polished instrumental ensemble featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet and Myron Walden on alto with Robert Rodriguez at the piano and Sean Conly and Vince Cherico on bass and drums.
Freddie Hubbard: The Artist Selects
by Russ Musto
Blue Note's The Artist Selects series offers a valuable insight into some of the jazz greats who recorded for the label by having the musicians themselves “select and sequence songs to be reissued on a single disc. In the case of Freddie Hubbard, the choices are especially interesting because they are culled from a particularly diverse ...
Sonny Rollins: Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
by Florence Wetzel
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Sonny Rollins was in his home, located six blocks from the World Trade Center. His evacuation the next day happened to be filmed by CNN. Despite the travel restrictions, Rollins and his band managed to make their September 15 gig at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Rollins was ...
Garrison Fewell/John Tchicai: Big Chief Dreaming / Adam Caine: Pipe
by Elliott Simon
A partnership between reedman John Tchicai and guitarist Garrison Fewell has resulted in a melodic multicultural release while guitarist Adam Caine's trio offers up a time warping ethereal sonic journey. Tchicai, Fewell, Tracanna, Dalla Porta and Manzi Big Chief Dreaming Soul Note 2005 Beginning with an engaging ...
Lynn Seaton: Puttin
by Marcia Hillman
This recording offers a refreshing take on eight standards, plus one original. Between them, bassist Lynn Seaton, pianist Stephen Anderson, and drummer Joel Fountain make a lot of good music. “Bernie's Tune is a perfect opener, swinging with solos by all three players. “Gone With The Wind starts off with Anderson playing out-of-tempo ...
Anderskov Accident: Unity of Action
by A. Henkin
On Unity of Action, Rhodes player and composer Jacob Anderskov has the enviable task of writing pieces for a front line that can at any time consist of trumpet, cornet, alto sax, clarinet, tenor sax, bass clarinet, and trombone. The colors at his disposal seem limitless. But many writers have become stymied by all this choice, ...
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