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Baileo Big Band: Jumbo Swing Night
by Jack Bowers
Baileo Big Band and Guests Jumbo Swing Night Jumbo 2003 I recently asked a pen-pal in the Netherlands, trombonist Rene Laanen, about the big-band scene there. “We have a pretty good new band,"? he said. “It's called the Baileo Big Band."? Was he ever right! I've now had the pleasure ...
Stan Levey: The Original Original
by Jack Bowers
Stan Levey The Original Original StanArt Productions 2004 One of the real pleasures for me during the 32nd annual conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) last January in Long Beach, CA, was shaking hands with one of the great drummers of the bop era and beyond, Stan ...
Derek Bailey: Playing For Friends on 5th Street
by A. Henkin
Derek Bailey Playing For Friends on 5th Street Straw2Gold Pictures 2004 This DVD is dedicated to the late Irving Stone and his wife Stephanie, once ubiquitous at NYC avant-garde concerts. Sadly, it can also be considered a dedication to Bailey himself, now retired due to ill health. But is also ...
Diana Krall: Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
Diana Krall Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival Verve Music Group 2004 Diana Krall's early career earned widespread acclaim, much of which vanished as her albums became increasingly vacuous mass-market efforts. When 2003's Live In Paris came out, it felt shameful admitting a liking for it and thinking she might ...
Ride The Music: Los Lobos Live at the Fillmore
by Doug Collette
Los Lobos Live at The Fillmore Hollywood 2004 During the “Imported from ELA"? documentary section of the new Los Lobos DVD, guitarist/songwriter/singer Cesar Rosas muses on the acts who once opened for his band, such as Melissa Etheridge and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who have gone on to great popularity. He ...
Al Di Meola: Live at Montreux 1986/1993
by Jerry D'Souza
Al Di Meola Live at Montreux 1986/1993 Eagle Eye Media 2004 Al Di Meola has been a contrast in terms of music. He has taken his guitar into various streams with different levels of success. His playing has been marked with a gentle lyrical air just as it has been ...
Oscar Peterson Trio '77
by Jerry D'Souza
Oscar Peterson Trio Oscar Peterson Trio '77 Eagle Rock Entertainment 2005 The combination of Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Niels Pedersen in performance could well lead one to salivate at the prospect of listening to them play. It does, and as well, succeeds to a great extent. All ...
Ebba Jahn: Rising Tones Cross
by A. Henkin
In 1984, before Tonic or CB's Lounge or even the Knitting Factory and Rudy Giuliani, New York City was a rough-and-tumble place filled with a wonderful array of musicians in a state of hyper-creativity. Some of them had come out of the loft scene of the '70s or even earlier and were reconciling ...
Milt Jackson & Ray Brown '77
by Jerry D'Souza
Milt Jackson and Ray Brown Milt Jackson & Ray Brown '77 Eagle Vision 2004 The combination of Norman Granz and the Montreux Jazz Festival was a strong one. The music that Granz presented at the festival had some top notch performers. Several of the concerts are now available as part ...
Charles Mingus: Live At Montreux 1975
by Jerry D'Souza
Charles Mingus Live At Montreux 1975 Eagle Vision 2004 Charles Mingus made his first appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 25, 1975, after he had completed recording the two land mark albums Changes One and Changes Two. It seemed natural enough that he should take the core that ...
