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Peter Br
by Mark Corroto
The milestones of the 66 year old German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's career are a useful device by which to review his prolific and passionate music making. From early experiments with Alexander von Schlippenbach and the Globe Unity Orchestra, he gained jazz infamy with an octet recording called Machine Gun (FMP, 1968). Aptly named, the unrelenting surge ...
Dick Haymes: A Major Player for Whom Luck Was No Lady
by Samuel Chell
Dick Haymes Complete Capitol Collection EMI Gold 2006 If you've read this far, it's either because you don't know who Dick Haymes is and wonder whether you should, or you recall some passing mention of him by a grandparent but little else. No offense intended to retros and ...
Double Standards: Volume One & Volume Two
by Annika Westman
Double Standards Volume One & Volume Two Kopasetic Productions 2006 It's sometimes asserted that, when it comes to the best known standard tunes, every conceivable angle worth exploring has already been explored. With tunes like “Body And Soul" or “All Of You," for instance, what could possibly be ...
Sonny Stitt: Quadromania/One O'Clock Jump
by Samuel Chell
Sonny Stitt Quadromania: One O'Clock Jump Membran Records 2006 Regarded by many musicians as the prototypal, or “most perfect," saxophonist, Sonny Stitt recorded some 150 sessions under his own name. These four discs in German company Membran's Quadromania series will, with the possible exception of some recorded tenor battles 1950-52 ...
Don Cherry: Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966
by Clifford Allen
Don Cherry Live At Cafe Montmartre 1966 ESP Disk (1966) 2007 A little over a year after trumpeter/composer Don Cherry debuted his European quintet in Rome and Paris, resulting in a brief return to New York and the beginning of a short-lived Blue Note recording contract, he reconvened his multi-national ...
Chicago Underground Trio: Chronicle
by Jerry D'Souza
Trumpeter Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor have a long history as experimental musicians. They play in several different bands and pull in like-minded musicians to expand into a trio or into the larger context of an “orchestra. For this venture they have Jason Ajemian on bass. Chicago Underground Trio Chronicle ...
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Brad Mehldau
by Samuel Chell
Brad Mehldau Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Brad Mehldau Concord Records 2007 The pianist Marian McPartland gave an outdoor concert in my small Midwest community several summers ago, and attending the event led me to a realization about the appeal of Piano Jazz, her syndicated, international jazz show that has been ...
Nicki Parrott & Rossano Sportiello: People Will Say We
by Elliott Simon
Nicki Parrott & Rossano Sportiello People Will Say We're In Love Arbors Records 2007 With People Will Say We're In Love, bassist Nicki Parrott and pianist Rossano Sportiello have stepped to the forefront and formed a musical partnership that keeps the melody squarely in focus while creating an atmosphere of ...
Curtis Counce: Curtis Counce/Jack Sheldon/Harold Land/Carl Perkins/Frank Butler Quintet: Complete Studio Recordings
by Samuel Chell
The beauty of this music is so much greater than the sum of its parts that a listener hardly knows where to begin. The two-disc package comprises the main recordings on the Contemporary label 1956-1958 by the short-lived Curtis Counce Group, whose expressed purpose was to develop a West Coast answer to the soulful, hard-boppish East ...
The Collectable King Crimson Volume Two
by John Kelman
The second in a series bringing together some of the best live material from its nearly four decade off-again-on-again existence, The Collectable King Crimson Volume Two collects two shows from the art rock group's 1980s incarnation. As much as Volume One (DGM, 2007) was a stunning example of the sheer power and improvisational prowess of 1973-1974 ...
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