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Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by Jim Santella
Don Byron's virtuosic clarinet technique allows him to stretch his limits this way and that. With piano and drums, he opens his program by setting the pace for adventure. With a glimpse of familiar melody here and a peek at remembered themes there, the clarinetist launches an improvisational tirade. Both his clarinet and bass clarinet enable ...
Renaud Garcia-Fons: Entremundo
by Jim Santella
World music is universal. As bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons performs eleven original compositions with his small ensemble, we're treated to the sounds of India, Persia, Spain, Ireland, South America, South Africa, and more. Reaping a contemporary flavor with the harmonic depth of a much larger ensemble, his band provides exotic sounds and pleasant melodies. Born ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Eternal
by John Kelman
When you hear that an artist is doing a ballad record, the first thing that comes to mind is “accessible product, commercial album for the masses." And, truth be told, some records seem to fit that description perfectly--Michael Brecker's Nearness of You: The Ballad Book , for example, sported an ace team of players but was ...
Miles Davis - Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964
by Colin Fleming
Seven Steps : Review #1 | Review #2 | Review #3 | Discuss | Poll Miles Davis Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis, 1963-1964 Columbia Legacy 2004 One of the more undervalued phases in Miles Davis' career, the years 1963-64 are typically deemed a fallow ...
Miles Davis - Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964
by Jim Santella
Seven Steps : Review #1 | Review #2 | Review #3 | Discuss | Poll Miles Davis Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis, 1963-1964 Columbia Legacy 2004 Seven discs paint a pretty good picture of the sound that Miles Davis gave us back ...
Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by John Kelman
Clarinetist Don Byron has fashioned a career something akin to a great jazz history lesson. With albums like Plays the Music of Mickey Katz and Bug Music , he demonstrated some of its traditional roots, whereas Music for Six Musicians and You are #6 explored the Latin and Afro-Cuban legacies. Tuskegee Experiments and the frighteningly good ...
Herbie Hancock/V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky
by John Kelman
There are a number of revelations on this remastered reissue of pianist Herbie Hancock and the V.S.O.P. quintet's Live Under the Sky , but two are essential. The first comes about eight bars into the first track on the first disc. The thought? How much drummer Tony Williams is truly missed. Sure, there are drummers out ...
Chet Baker: The Last Great Concert
by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Chet Baker had his ups and downs. The ups: his groundbreaking work with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet in the early to mid-fifties, followed by dozens of great early recordings under his own name. The downs: his long term involvement with drugs, which took him out of the picture for a stretch in the ...
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper: Mosaic Select 10: Bud Shank & Bob Cooper
by C. Andrew Hovan
One is no longer with us and the other still serves as a vital bop-inflected saxophonist, but for a short period of time in the late '50s, Bob Cooper and Bud Shank joined forces with producer Richard Bock on a series of fine Pacific Jazz sessions that, while not widely known even at the time, will ...
Mosaic Select 11: Dizzy Reece
by C. Andrew Hovan
Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select 11 Mosaic Records During the '50s and '60s there were any number of minor jazz legends recording actively for such independent labels as Prestige, Riverside, Savoy, and Blue Note. As far as trumpeters go, the names Richard Williams, Blue Mitchell, Carmell Jones , Booker Little, and Dizzy Reece ...
