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Larry Coryell: Shining Hour
by Douglas Payne
Guitarist Larry Coryell has successfully explored a surprisingly wide variety of creative music since he hit the scene in 1965. But the four albums he made for Muse Records between 1984 and 1989 were notable as some of the first full recordings of his straight-ahead jazz playing. In each case, Coryell's superb, seamless playing is featured ...
Charles Lloyd: Voice In The Night
by Douglas Payne
Voice in the Night is a welcome homecoming for reedman Charles Lloyd. He hasn't recorded in a guitar-based group since his two tremendously underrated (and rockish) albums for A&M in 1972-73. Here, he also pleasingly revisits a good deal of his earlier (and still his most personable) material: “Forest Flower," from the famed quartet days of ...
Milt Jackson/The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Explosive!
by Douglas Payne
In a recording career that's spanned more than half a century, the masterful vibraphonist Milt Jackson has seldom been less than flawless. For Explosive!, his fifth disc on Quincy Jones's well-distributed Qwest label, Jackson is suitably teamed with the well-populated Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. It too, is no exception; offering a sterling collection of Jackson's pleasing blend ...
Tim Hagans: Biography
by Douglas Payne
The title of trumpeter Tim Hagan's latest Blue Note recording, Animation Imagination, aptly describes the tenor of his new tunes, a batch of gritty, electronic, groove-driven numbers informed by the seminal jazz-funk fusion of the late '60s-early 70s. With his angular and lyrical trumpet lines arcing over the oftentimes speedy bears, Hagans takes the music out ...
Catalyst: The Funkiest Band You Never Heard
by Douglas Payne
Catalyst is one of those groups more talked about than heard. But most jazz listeners have heard the mighty tenor of Odean Pope as an integral part of Max Roach's great 1980s bands (Catalyst bassist Tyrone Brown eventually joined him there too) and through his recent and well-regarded Saxophone Choir. The underrated and under-recorded keyboardist Eddie ...
Tim Hagans: Animation * Imagination
by Douglas Payne
Little in 44-year-old trumpeter Tim Hagan's lengthy, mostly post-bop career prepares you for the intensely pleasurable shock of Animation * Imagination. Without giving too much away, Hagans (who's billed for the first time here by his surname only) serves up a drum 'n' bass masterpiece that has as much to offer a dedicated jazz listener as ...
Richard Bone: Coxa
by Douglas Payne
The multitalented and multi-textual keyboardist Richard Bone continues his ambient reflections on mid-1960s jazz with Coxa, his tenth disc as a leader and a sequel of sorts to 1998's bossa-oriented Electropica. Coxa, an anatomical term meaning hip bone (clever, huh?), is again inspired by producer Creed Taylor's galvanizing Verve productions of the mid-1960s. Here, ...
The Jazz Mandolin Project: Tour de Flux
by Douglas Payne
This Burlington, Vermont trio sounds more like an accomplished guitar trio than the gimmick their name might suggest. Maybe that's what makes Tour de Flux, the group's second disc in their four-year history, an absolute knock-out.Mandolin and banjo pyro-technician Jamie Masefield more or less leads the band. He's a methodic, even erudite player that ...
David Murray: Creole
by Douglas Payne
The protean and prolific David Murray is a force of nature. Surely, no tenor sax or bass clarinetist in the last two decades has crafted as distinctive and commanding a tone as his. Nor have many explored - much less mastered -- the many musical milieus he's investigated: free, bop, ballads, soul jazz , ...
John Coltrane: Coltrane's Sound
by Douglas Payne
Something about John Coltrane's brief but prodigious Atlantic period (1959-61) reminds me of my hometown, Pittsburgh - even though none of these sessions were recorded there, nor were any of these brilliant musicians from the Steel town. There's something honest, soulful, down-home and deeply touching in this music. Always takes me back; makes me ...
