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Love Songs: Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne & Nina Simone
by Andrew Rowan
Many jazz purists shy away from collections, opting for the artists' original CDs. But collections have their purpose. My first vocal jazz recording was on Columbia Records: Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah. It led to my lifelong affection for jazz singers. These Love Songs collections present three of the most distinctive American singers of ...
Jason Moran: Same Mother
by John Kelman
Contrary to popular opinion, the blues transcends structured musical form. Rather, it is a feeling that imbues, a deep and dark sense of despair that pervades. Regardless of the context, there was always something distinctly blue about the way Miles Davis approached every phrase. Similarly, while his music in no way relates to conventional blues form, ...
Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood
by John Kelman
Is it possible to be too reverent to one's roots? Over the course of three prior releases for Blue Note, Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista has honoured a number of players who have informed his music, including Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, and Johnny Hodges. But whereas previous discs have delivered homage in the context of largely ...
Marsalis Music: A Love For Jazz Supreme
by Doug Collette
Born into a family with an estimable legacy in the annals of jazz, Branford Marsalis has always done that legacy proud and never more so than through his conception of Marsalis Music. Conceived, according to noted jazz critic Bob Blumenthal (who works hand in hand on various projects under the MM aegis), as a homage to ...
Various Artists: New Orleans
by AAJ Staff
The city of New Orleans counts many styles among its diverse musical offspring, including jazz, the focus of this compilation of old and young players alike. It's a timely entry by Putumayo, a world music label whose every release comes with the proclamation that it's “guaranteed to make you feel good!" No false claim in this ...
Branford Marsalis: Eternal & The Steep Anthology
by Russ Musto
Taken together these two CDs chronicle Branford Marsalis' 20-year recording career as a leader, documenting his ascent as one of the most recognized artists of his generation. There is much excellent music on both discs, but because they are so fundamentally different in temperament it is very likely that many fans who are totally enthralled with ...
Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood
by AAJ Staff
Coming on the heels of another prominent Bird dedication, Anothony Braxton's recently reissued Charlie Parker Project, Parker's Mood is not only a change of pace but a totally distinct look at the music of one of bebop's founding fathers. Whereas Braxton's sprawling work was loose, cantankerous, and abstractly modern, Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista's collection is ...
New Orleans: Then and Now
by Joel Roberts
The Putumayo catalog generally focuses on the rather amorphous genre of world music, with titles like Brazilian Groove, Women of Africa and Greece: A Musical Odyssey. Two new Putumayo collections, however, cover somewhat less exotic, though no less musically fertile territory: New Orleans. The first disc is devoted to Kermit Ruffins, the trumpeter, ...
Kermit Ruffins: One Night in New Orleans
by Franz A. Matzner
With the temperature plunging and the streets decked out in ice and snow, there were few better ways to warm up last weekend than heading to Blues Alley for some good, old-fashioned New Orleans jazz performed by revivalist Kermit Ruffins and his Barbecue Swingers. Hailing from the city of swing itself, Ruffins has ...
Dexter Gordon: Mosaic Select 14
by John Kelman
Dexter Gordon Mosaic Select 14 Mosaic Records (B2-70985) 2004 While tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, long considered the bebop progenitor on his axe, recorded a number of classic sides for Blue Note in the '60s, including Go! and A Swingin' Affair , as well as seminal albums for ...
