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Tyshawn Sorey: That/Not
by Nic Jones
Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12 Records 2007 This is drummer/pianist/composer Tyshawn Sorey's first outing on record. It's a two-disc manifesto of some downright iconoclastic music, and the work of a quartet of musicians with their eyes seemingly on expansive, open, new vistas. That much is clear ...
The Complete On The Corner Sessions
by John Kelman
Much has been written about what is perhaps trumpeter Miles Davis' most controversial album, On The Corner (Columbia, 1972). Already shaken from the electric onslaught of Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970), and a series of live or, in the case of Live-Evil (Columbia, 1970), largely live releases, it was the ...
Billie Holiday: Lady Day - The Master Takes and Singles
by David Rickert
Billie Holiday Lady Day - The Master Takes And Singles Columbia Records 2007 It's fitting that singer Billie Holiday began the most celebrated part of her career with Columbia in 1933, when the country was in the throes of the depression, and ended it in 1942, when the ...
Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Seconds
by John Kelman
Tim Berne's Bloodcount Seconds Screwgun Records 2007 While documentation of saxophonist/composer Tim Berne's remarkable Bloodcount has been most widely available on Lowlife, Poisoned Minds and Memory Select--all culled from four nights in Paris in 1994, released that year on JMT and ultimately reissued in remastered form ...
The Complete On The Corner Sessions
by Greg Masters
“There is no architecture and no build-up. Just a vivid, uninterrupted succession of colors, rhythms and moods." --Arnold Schoenberg describing his Five Pieces For Orchestra in a letter to Richard Strauss, 1909, quoted in The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) The music that trumpeter Miles Davis forged in the first ...
Various Artists: The Best of Polish Jazz 2005
by Chris May
Various Artists The Best Of Polish Jazz 2005 PolishJazz.com 2005 Is Poland the best kept secret in jazz? The evidence suggests it might be. During the four decades since the composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda recorded his iconic Astigmatic (Polskie Nagrania, 1966, reissued on Harkit), Poland has produced ...
Keely Smith: The Essential Capitol Collection
by Samuel Chell
Keely Smith The Essential Capitol Collection Capitol/EMI 2007 Of all the great American female singers, Keely Smith may be the most naturally gifted. The instrument, the technique, the sense of melodic line all invite the closest analysis and emulation--simply exemplary, textbook examples of the art of singing. How ...
George Mraz & Iva Bittova: Moravian Gems
by Victor Verney
George Mraz & Iva Bittova Moravian Gems CubeMetier 2007 The United States is a large country and anything but culturally homogenous. Americans routinely make geographical distinctions among themselves, politically (red state vs. blue state), religiously (Southern Baptist vs. New England Baptist), and of course, musically. All three of ...
Mulatu Astatqe: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale
by Chris May
Mulatu Astatqe Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale Buda Musique 2002 An idiosyncratic amalgam of late 1960s/early 1970s US jazz and jazz-rock refracted through the prism of Ethiopian five-tone scales and harmonies, the early work of composer, keyboardist and bandleader Mulatu Astatqe, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, has finally ...
Robert Mitchell: Equinox
by Frederick Bernas
Robert Mitchell Equinox F-IRE 2007 British pianist Robert Mitchell, yet another distinguished alumnus of bassist Gary Crosby's Tomorrow's Warriors development programme for young British jazz musicians, throws up many questions on his ambitious solo release Equinox. Performing alone is not unusual to Mitchell: as recently as 2004 he played opening ...
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