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Chu Berry: Classic Columbia & Victor Sides
by Nic Jones
Chu Berry Classic Columbia & Victor Sides Mosaic Records 2007 This seven-disc set is both a summary of tenor saxophonist Chu Berry's tragically short life and an important contribution to jazz history. It is a “warts and all collection due to some of contexts in which Berry is heard, but ...
Allen Lowe: Jews In Hell/Radical Jewish Acculturation
by Clifford Allen
Allen Lowe Jews In Hell: Radical Jewish Acculturation Spaceout Records 2007 Art critic Clement Greenberg once offered a useful explanation of the task of modernism. To paraphrase rather liberally, Greenberg wrote that a modernist work must engage and self-criticize its own basic tenets and those of its chosen medium--not as ...
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage
by C. Michael Bailey
The importance of saxophonist Michael Brecker's final recording, Pilgrimage, is densely multidimensional. The romantically inclined will attach significance to the fact that the nine compositions were conceived and recorded while Brecker was aware of the gravity of his final illness. Pilgrimage falls into an artistic/musical category that includes such disparate music as Mozart's Requiem, Puccini's Turandot, ...
Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing With Joe McPhee: Two Bands And A Legend
by Eyal Hareuveni
Two Bands And A Legend Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing With Joe McPhee Smalltown Superjazz 2007 “Are you cramped? Can you find your mind? Can you shake your ass?" asks Sonic Youth's guitarist Thurston Moore in his liner notes to Two Bands And A Legend. The album ...
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner Ojos Negros ECM Records 2007 As of this writing, Ojos Negros, the new album of duets by bandoneón master Dino Saluzzi and classical cellist Anja Lechner, has been the subject of four glowing reviews at AAJ. Add to those Steve Lake's excellent liner notes and ...
Bobby Hutcherson: Mosaic Select 26
by John Kelman
Among the relatively small community of vibraphonists, Bobby Hutcherson is not only one of the most influential, he's clearly the most widely versed and consistent too. In a career now nearing its sixth decade, Hutcherson has played mainstream to Third Stream and soul jazz to free jazz. A mainstay of the Blue Note label in the ...
Tigra Negra
by Donald Elfman
Tigra NegraPierre Dorge and the New Jungle OrchestraIlk Music2007Pierre Dørge has what seems like a magical ability - he can re-imagine and rethink the way that music is voiced thus creating entire new worlds out of worlds we think we know. He can take an Ellington standard or ...
McCoy Tyner: Mosaic Select 25
by John Kelman
By the time pianist McCoy Tyner turned thirty in 1968 he'd already built a successful career as a sideman and leader. He got his first break with trombonist Curtis Fuller in 1959, but by the following year had joined up with saxophonist John Coltrane. The rest, as they say, is history. From 1960 through 1965, Tyner ...
Grant Stewart: In The Still Of The Night
by David A. Orthmann
Grant Stewart In The Still Of The Night Sharp Nine Records 2007 Soloing on the title track of In The Still Of The Night, tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart plays scads of notes over a rhythm section traveling at warp speed. But while his stamina and ability ...
Kenny Clarke: Klook's The Man
by Chris May
Kenny Clarke Klook's The Man Proper Records 2007 Of the three great African American drummers whose work in the early and mid 1940s shaped the contours of bop--Kenny Clarke, Max Roach and Art Blakey--it was “Klook" Clarke who lit the first and fattest fuse: taking timekeeping away from the bass ...
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