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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 ...
Mosaic Select 8: Duke Pearson
by C. Andrew Hovan
Duke Pearson Mosaic Select 8 Mosaic Records In recent years artists such as Mike LeDonne and Jim Rotondi have brought to light the overwhelming lyrical gifts of composer Duke Pearson in their own recordings of some of his most memorable lines. Unfortunately, too much of Pearson's work lies just under the radar ...
Paul Chambers: Mosaic Select 5: Paul Chambers
by C. Andrew Hovan
Aside from Ray Brown and Dave Holland, few bass players over the years have chosen to put their instruments up front as a leading voice. Lest we forget the efforts in this area by the legendary Paul Chambers, a recent Mosaic Select collection sets the record straight on the bassist's own sessions as a leader. While ...
Mosaic Select 7: Curtis Amy
by C. Andrew Hovan
Curtis Amy Mosaic Select 7 Mosaic Records I can still remember doing an interview with Mosaic's Michael Cuscuna several years back when I felt compelled to probe him about the lack of reissues from African American artists who happened to record for the Pacific Jazz label. Many still associate Richard Bock's imprimatur ...
Marian McPartland at 86
by AAJ Staff
A Blue Lake Public Radio interview with jazz great Marian McPartland invariably begins with the subject of Tom Pletcher, the former Montague, MI, area jazz cornetist whose father Stew Pletcher played trumpet with Red Norvo's big band of the 1930's. Tom Pletcher, who now lives in Florida, and pianist Dick Hyman just released If Bix Played ...
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