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The Allman Brothers Band
by Doug Collette
Idlewild South (Capricorn/UMG) 1970When you measured your music by sides of lp's, there were few if any comparisons to side one of this one. From “Revival" to “Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" through “Midnight Rider" and “ In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,' this sequence of tracks showed how the band had ...
February 2004
by Doug Collette
Damaged in Transit Steve Swallow w/Chris Potter and Adam Nussbaum (ECM) The way Swallow describes this project in his liner notes, the recording of this live disc proceeded directly from the compositions to the rehearsals to the performance. As you listen, however, you can sense the effort expended by each ...
Brad Mehldau Trio in Burlington, Vermont
by Doug Collette
Brad Mehldau Trio Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington, Vermont January 17, 2004 Is The Brad Mehldau Trio the finest acoustic jazz group in the world right now?...You’d answer the question yes if you saw them on the Vermont stop of the current tour promoting their forthcoming album Anything ...
Best of 2003
by Doug Collette
The diversity of the following list illustrates how all encompassing the jazz genre has grown to be... which is another way of saying “Why limit your 'Best of' to just Ten?". One Quiet Night Pat Metheny (Warner Bros.) Pat Metheny’s prodigious guitar technique is such that, even ...
Miles Davis Boxes: Jack Johnson and At The Blackhawk
by Doug Collette
If Legacy's ongoing Miles Davis reissue program has proved anything, it’s that there’s never too much of the man’s music. And that goes for scholars as well as fans, because the insight offered into the man with the horn’s creative process is an invaluable tool for understanding not just how Miles worked with musicians and producers, ...
Santana Remasters
by Doug Collette
The original Santana band achieved huge commercial success through the fiery fusion of rock, blues and Latin musics. As Carlos Santana evolved as a musician, he took the group into equally interesting directions with often equally fascinating results, even if those projects didn’t match up to the first three albums’ impact in terms of sales. Listeners ...
Jeff Beck: Jeff
by Doug Collette
Ever since his days with The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck has positioned himself as an experimentalist with the electric guitar. Through his pioneering days as a heavy rocker (Truth, Beck-Ola) as well as his groundbreaking fusion efforts (Blow by Blow, Wired), the iconoclastic Brit has displayed almost a tangible hunger to find new sounds. Little surprise then ...
Bela Fleck and The Flecktones: Little Worlds/Ten From Little Worlds
by Doug Collette
Little Worlds is a gorgeous package of three compact discs on which Bela Fleck and the Flecktones seamlessly interweave inspiration, creative spontaneity and judicious production. The crystalline sound quality is just one of the constants deriving from collaboration between Bela himself and recordists Robert and Richard Battaglia: it’s a pleasure to listen to this ...
September 2003
by Doug Collette
The Bandwagon Jason Moran (Blue Note) Jason Moran is one of the most compelling figures of modern jazz precisely because he’s so challenging of his listeners and this live cd asks even more than last year’s solo album. Perhaps it’s due to the proximity of the audience, the presence of ...
August 2003
by Doug Collette
Captain Marvel Stan Getz (Legacy) Even in its expanded edition, this album is a document of musicians playing only the notes that count. Essentially Chick Corea’s first Return to forever band, plus Getz on sax and Tony Williams on drums, the pianist’s multi-part compositions are ideal for the approach the group adopted ...
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