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Pat Martino: Mission Accomplished
by Douglas Payne
The title refers to 32 Jazz's successful release of Pat Martino's entire Muse and Warner Bros. catalog between 1972 and 1996. The result is four two-fers, two single discs and several compilations showcasing one of the finest, most consistent jazz guitarists of the last quarter century. Mission Accomplished is one of the two-fers that ...
Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet: Breakthrough!
by Douglas Payne
Although recorded 14 years before he died, 1972's Breakthrough was one of the final recordings the lamentably under-appreciated tenor great Hank Mobley made (he also guested on a 1980 Tete Montoliu record). Mobley, an especially lyrical and melodic tenor titan, had recorded prolifically - and consistently well -- between 1955 and 1970, mostly (and most substantially) ...
Lalo Schifrin: Latin Jazz Suite
by Douglas Payne
Lalo Schifrin's Latin Jazz Suite is a masterful celebration of the diverse and colorful sounds and feelings that Latin forms add to the jazz vocabulary. It is also a reflection of the composer's successful contributions to the Latin musical language over the last four decades.This enthralling, consistently engaging six-piece suite - recorded live over ...
Joao Donato: Joao Donato
by Douglas Payne
This odd cult item, originally released on Muse in 1973, is also known as Donato/Deodato -- a reference to then-hot arranger Eumir Deodato's participation and, probably, the similarity in their surnames. With the exception of the kick-off tune - the insanely catchy and wonderfully funky “Whistle Stop" -- it's a brief, strange trip that meanders aimlessly ...
Mimi Fox: Kicks
by Douglas Payne
Unfortunately, Mimi Fox is one of only a few female guitarists in jazz. Only Leni Stern and the late, lamented Emily Remler seem to have broken through that male-dominated stranglehold. But Kicks, Fox's latest disc and her third as a leader, places the guitarist in star-studded company to firmly announce that, yes, she too can play ...
Kenny Burrell: 12*15*78
by Douglas Payne
This period of Kenny Burrell's career found the guitarist playing more -- and better -- than ever. But he had long before abandoned his high-profile role as house guitarist for Prestige and Blue Note (in the 1950s and 1960s) and as a studio guitarist on a staggering number of jazz, pop and film dates (during the ...
James Asher: Raising The Rhythms
by Douglas Payne
Too many jazz listeners make the most intolerant music lovers. There is the likable fact that no two people ever define jazz -- or their tastes in it -- the same way. But jazz people too often disregard “other" music (whatever that is) and belittle what others find appealing in “other" music. Don't think so? Consider ...
Cannonball Adderley: Phenix
by Douglas Payne
Consider how fate portions what it takes and what it gives. Cannonball Adderley's death by stroke in August 1975 robbed music of one of the most distinctive, dynamic and delightful sounds ever known to jazz. But the big man built a considerable and hugely popular musical catalog over three decades and, on the very precipice of ...
Lenni-Kalle Taipole Trio: Nothing To Hide
by Douglas Payne
If there's any new ground left for piano trios to explore, none of today's jazz threesomes are finding it. But the familiar can always be a comforting place to come back to. And a player who excels on already oft-heard keyboard commentary is no less interesting to hear.Such a player is twenty-something Finnish pianist ...
Monty Alexander: Stir It Up: The Music Of Bob Marley
by Douglas Payne
Proof, as if any was still necessary, that Reggae king Bob Marley wrote songs melodic enough for jazz. Grover Washington, Jr. was one of the first during the 1970s to do jazz covers of Marley's music. Then guitarist Charlie Hunter put the definitive stamp on his 1997 cover of the Natty Dread album. Now comes Jamaican ...
