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Charles Tolliver: With Love
by Jim Santella
Featuring the soulful trumpet soloing of Charles Tolliver and fiery band arrangements that he's created through a lifetime of paying dues, both in New York and Los Angeles, With Love drives with a powerful spirit and deep feeling. Tolliver's writing shows an influence from Gerald Wilson, with whom he worked in the late 1960s. ...
Don Byron: Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker
by Chris M. Slawecki
Through previous recordings in honor of Sly Stone, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Mancini and other influences on his highly individualized muse, Don Byron has demonstrated a great feeling for tributes. His sixth Blue Note release honors Autry DeWalt, who blew as “Junior Walker a string of saxophone/organ hurricanes that contributed mightily to the rock-soul wing of Motown ...
Top Ten "Most Read" Articles & CD Reviews: 2006
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles and CD reviews below represent our top ten published in 2006.Top Ten Articles Megaphone What the F**k Happened to Black Popular Music? By Kenny Drew, Jr.Interviews Marc Ribot: That's the Way I View ...
Seeing Music and the Challenges of Filming Jazz: The Exceptional Case of 'Calle 54'
by Victor Verney
Fernando Trueba Calle 54 Miramax 2001 In an era in which the visual media have increasingly come to overshadow both audio and textual forms, Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba's Calle 54 raises provocative questions about jazz movies and the challenges facing the creative filmmaker. It is, undoubtedly, a must-see/must-hear ...
Troy Collins' Lucky 13: Best New Releases of 2006
by Troy Collins
Michaël Attias Credo Clean Feed Records Joyously upbeat with excellent arrangements, adroit rhythmic interplay, and passionate improvisation, a stunning debut for saxophonist Michaël Attias' sextet. Bridge 61 Journal Atavistic Bridge 61 is as fine an ...
Brian Bromberg: Wood II
by Ernest Barteldes
On Wood II, bassist Brian Bromberg, instead of showcasing new material, prefers to give his take on songs by a different range of composers, some of whom, like Paul McCartney and Kansas, are not directly associated with jazz. He opens with a classic Duke Ellington number, “Caravan, showing incredible speed during certain moments and also giving ...
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Jim Santella
This 1965 soundtrack has become ingrained in our minds through repeated leisurely holiday seasons with the family in the living room. They're great memories, brought to us by a stellar jazz piano trio that was always on top of the situation. Together, they gave us a no-nonsense setting. Each traditional Christmas song and each Guaraldi original ...
November 2006
by Doug Collette
Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau Metheny Mehldau Nonesuch 2006 A true synergy of exceptional musicians, Metheny Mehldau scores by demonstrating how guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau complement each other. In much the same way as the disc's cover art depicts dark colors flowing into lighter ones, the brooding ...
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by David Rickert
If you were born in the sixties or later, there's a good chance that your first exposure to jazz was through the Peanuts Christmas special. Today the whimsical music of Vince Guaraldi seems inseparable from this holiday classic, but it almost didn't happen that way; producer Lee Mendelson originally envisioned either Dave Brubeck or Cal Tjader ...
Florian Weber / Jeff Denson / Ziv Ravitz: Minsarah
by Glenn Astarita
The members of this young and well-schooled, multi-national piano trio convened at Boston's Berklee College of Music--and the rest is history, so to speak. They recorded Minsarah in Germany, on which youth, vigor and invention come to fruition. The title of this release refers to a prism, where translucent glass is used to separate ...
