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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence
by Nic Jones
Spontaneous Music Ensemble Quintessence Emanem 2007 The music on this two-disc set was originally reissued on two separate CDs some ten years ago, and this latest edition adds no additional material. That's of no real concern though, because what's here is one of the seminal recorded documents of ...
Fredrik Ljungkvist & Yun Kan 5: Badaling
by Eyal Hareuveni
Fredrik Ljungkvist & Yun Kan 5 Badaling Caprice Records 2007 Badaling is the sophomore release of the excellent Swedish quintet Yun Kan 5. The group is led by saxophonist/clarinetist Fredrik Ljungkvist, better known as one of the key composers in the Swedish/Norwegian quintet Atomic, and for his association with saxophonist ...
Jug and Jaws: The Titanic Tenor Voices of Gene Ammons and Eddie Davis
by Samuel Chell
Gene Ammons, Boss Tenor (Prestige, 1960/2006)Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Cook Book, Vol. 1 (Prestige, 1958/2006) Before the Trojan prince Aeneas ended his torrid love affair with the African queen Dido, sailing from Carthage to Italy, he certainly must have created with his companion a select gene pool that would eventually produce not only the lyric ...
Ben Sidran: Talking Jazz - An Oral History
by Mark Corroto
Ben Sidran Talking Jazz - An Oral History Self Published 2006 In jazz, there are only six degrees of separation between Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman, or beween any other pair of musicians you care to name. Perhaps a six-degrees/small-world theory which suggests a jazz critic from Ohio can find ...
Hy Perbole's Astonishingly Incomparable Superstars: Platinum-Plated Gold
by Jack Bowers
Confirming long-whispered rumors of its existence, a mint-condition master tape of what almost everyone this side of uncharted Borneo agrees is absolutely, positively and beyond any doubt the most breathtakingly spectacular jazz recording ever made, Platinum-Plated Gold by Hy Perbole's Astonishingly Incomparable Superstars, has been found lying under rotting carcasses at a meat-packing plant and former ...
Sidney Bechet: Mosaic Select 23
by Robert R. Calder
Sidney Bechet Mosaic Select 23: Sidney Bechet Mosaic Records 2006 In August 2004, in a back street in the German town of Konstanz, I heard his music played by an itinerant Italian clarinetist. Days later in Spain, in front of Barcelona cathedral, I heard a different clarinetist and ...
Charlie Christian: The Original Guitar Genius
by Chris May
Charlie ChristianThe Original Guitar GeniusProper Records2005 The New Orleans cornetist Buddy Bolden--active in the early 1900s--won his reputation as a founding father of jazz without leaving any recorded evidence of his talent. His epoch-shaping stature is based entirely on folklore, the testimony of a few contemporaries, and ...
Thomas Marriott: Both Sides of the Fence
by Bill Bennett
Thomas Marriott Both Sides of the Fence Origin Records 2007 In 1999, Thomas Marriott won the prestigious Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition sponsored by the International Trumpet Guild and the Herb Albert Foundation. Michael Caldwell wrote in the March 2000 International Trumpet Guild Journal: “[His] confident stage ...
Donald Byrd: Off To The Races
by John Barron
Donald Byrd Off To The Races Blue Note Records 2006 (1959) Detroit was producing a lot more than cars in the 1950s: the city was a breeding ground for an impressive number of hard bop giants. Two of the most dynamic instrumentalists to trek eastward from Motown to ...
Chie Imaizumi: Unfailing Kindness
by Jack Bowers
Chie Imaizumi Unfailing Kindness Capri Records 2007 Thanks, Greg. Sometimes all it takes to launch a promising career is a chance meeting, in this case between trumpeter Greg Gisbert and young composer/arranger Chie Imaizumi. The two met in March 2005 at the Jazz Standard in NYC, where Gisbert was playing ...
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