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Bill Evans: Piano Player
by Douglas Payne
At first it's hard to tell if Piano Player is a quickie compilation or a never-issued recording. But it's a bit of both. It's a hodgepodge, really, consisting of eight never-before released songs enhanced by the Miles Davis quartet's 1958 performance of “My Funny Valentine" and two of five tracks from vibraphonist Dave Pike's ...
Alexander/Hicks/Mraz/Muhammad: Solid!
by Douglas Payne
Solid! is an aptly-titled tribute to Prestige Records, one year shy of its 50th anniversary. The music focuses squarely on the loose, swinging bebop the label made famous in the mid to late 1950s, when big names like Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane “headlined" sessions.Most ...
Russell Malone: Sweet Georgia Peach
by Douglas Payne
Sweet Georgia Peach is one of 1998's most compelling mainstream jazz releases. Guitarist Russell Malone (b. 1963), known better for his sideman roles with Jimmy Smith, Harry Connick, Brandford Marsalis, Diana Krall and Mose Allison, has produced quite a fine jazz document here, in only his third effort as a leader.He's ...
Gary Burton: Like Minds
by Douglas Payne
Every once in a great while, the stars align and the muse visit a recording studio to smile beneficently on the musicians assembled there. How else to account for the ineffable chemistry that infuses the best jazz albums? Well the muses were working overtime when vibraphonist Gary Burton arranged the first recording encounter between Chick Corea ...
Medeski Martin & Wood: Combustication
by Douglas Payne
Combustication is neither as good nor as bad as promised. Now that the trio of keyboardist John Medeski, drummer / percussionist Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood have become the equivalent of jazz superstars and their concerts are increasingly attended like Grateful Dead shows, they probably can do little wrong and even less right.But ...
Miles Davis: Miles Davis Live
by Douglas Payne
This fairly well-recorded concert captures the very electric Miles Davis octet live in the South of France sometime during the summer of 1988. It's hard to say if this is a legitimate release. But the quality of the recording and the performance places it above any of Mile's post- Pangaea “live" releases (pending Warner Brothers' choice ...
Les McCann: How's Your Mother?
by Douglas Payne
This intriguing, previously unreleased set captures Les McCann's working trio with bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Severino live at the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967. It's an exceptionally well recorded fifty-minute set that mixes four group originals with two Cole Porter tunes and two unfortunate pop staples of McCann's ("Goin' Out of My Head," ...
Kenny Barron: Peruvian Blue
by Douglas Payne
Peruvian Blue is Kenny Barron's second solo outing, coming right after 1973's marvelous Sunset To Dawn (released by 32 Jazz last year as part of the two-disc set Soft Spoken Here ). Originally released by Muse Records in 1974, this six-song program finds Barron shifting between electric and acoustic pianos in a variety of groupings, from ...
Buster Williams: Crystal Reflections
by Douglas Payne
Bassist Buster Williams is well featured here on this pretty, interesting set from 1976, his second disc as a leader. Crystal Reflections concentrates on exploratory duets with keyboardist Kenny Barron (the exceptional Barron original, “The Enchanted Flower"), pianist Jimmy Rowles (two versions of “I Dream Too Much") and vibraphonist Roy Ayers ("My Funny Valentine").Elsewhere, ...
Wes Montgomery: Groove Brothers
by Douglas Payne
Groove Brothers presents two of the few occasions guitarist Wes Montgomery (1925-68) was recorded with his brothers, pianist/vibraphonist Buddy (born 1930) and bassist Monk (1921-82). And it's a gem. This 78-minute disc contains perhaps the least known of the brothers' work together: The Montgomery Brothers (Fantasy,1960) and The Montgomery Brothers In Canada (Fantasy, 1961). Both were ...
