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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Quanta July: Fundamental Piano Trio I - Bill Evans, Mike Jones, Fahir Atakoğlu, Roberto Magris, Chat Noir

by C. Michael Bailey
July 8, 2016

Bill Evans Some Other Time: the Lost Session From the Black Forest Resonance 2016 Pianist Bill Evans has never suffered from a lack of musical documentation. A majority of his recordings remain in release and more unheard performances continue to surface. Resonance Records' Some Other Time: the Lost ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope

June 27, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today! This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings. St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris: Need to Bring Out Love

Read "Need to Bring Out Love" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2016

Perhaps the best word with which to describe Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris is busy. Since launching his career in the late '70s, the fifty-six-year-old keyboardist has performed with a veritable who's who of jazz luminaries in forty-one countries, and Need to Bring Out Love is his twenty-seventh album as leader of his own groups (in this ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris: Enigmatix

Read "Enigmatix" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 24, 2015

As a showcase for Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris' exceptional talents, Enigmatix works quite well. Magris, who has devoted several albums to the music of others (Lee Morgan, Elmo Hope, Cannonball Adderley) and shared center stage with saxophonists Herb Geller and Sam Reed on others, turns the spotlight on himself and his keyboard this time around in ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope

June 27, 2015

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Article: Interview

A Remembrance of Percy Heath

by R.J. DeLuke
March 9, 2015

This article was originally published at All About Jazz in May 2005. Percy Heath could play the hell out of that big contrabass. Played it for more than half a century. With Bird and Miles and Diz and 'Trane and Brownie and the venerable Modern Jazz Quartet and on and on. And ...

Article: Album Review

Peter Zak: The Disciple

Read "The Disciple" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 2, 2014

Peter Zak has put out one strong trio affair after another, yet his work is often overlooked. Maybe it's due to the fact that he hasn't settled on one lineup for an extended period of time, preferring to try out different combinations for his trio recordings; or maybe it's because he doesn't stray far from the ...

Article: Album Review

Peter Zak: The Disciple

Read "The Disciple" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 20, 2014

Pianist Peter Zak had a transcontinental shift from Los Angeles to Columbus and Kent Ohio and, finally, to New Your City, where he has remained since 1989. He has released critically well-received CDs for the Danish SteepleChase label: The Eternal Triangle (2012), Nordic Noon (2011) and Down East (2011). He returns with the present trio recording, ...

Article: Album Review

Roberto Magris Septet: Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 2

Read "Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 2" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2014

Not only is Italian pianist / composer Roberto Magris conversant with jazz history and tradition, he honors it, as he has done in a series of albums devoted to the music of pianist Elmo Hope, alto saxophonist Julian Cannonball" Adderley and trumpeter Lee Morgan who is saluted here in a second two-disc volume. Whereas young lion ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

My Pet Peeve: The Mislabeled CD – Clifford Brown Memorial Album – Blue Note 1526

by Marc Davis
July 21, 2014

And now it's time for a personal pet peeve, something far worse than a squeaky sax or a fumble-fingered pianist: The mislabeled CD. Today's example: The Clifford Brown Memorial Album. Let's start by noting that this is a terrific record--recorded in 1953, released in 1956, shortly after Brown's tragic death in a ...