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John Coltrane: Fearless Leader
by Norman Weinstein
John Coltrane Fearless Leader Prestige 2006 This six-CD set of all of the original Prestige albums led by John Coltrane comes as a relief after the previous sixteen-disc box of every one of his preserved recordings on the label, as leader or sideman. Putting aside the daunting cost of that ...
Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
by Jim Santella
Fats Waller If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Bluebird Jazz 2006 His career was short, but he left behind the kind of memories that will never fade. Fats Waller had it all: personality, keyboard talent, musical ear, and an intuitive feel for communicating with an audience. He ...
Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group: Live in Seattle
by Jason West
Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer GroupLive in SeattleOrigin Records2006 As can be the case on special occasions, this live recording is ripe with sonic excitement, spontaneity, and the ubiquitous impression that something extraordinary is happening right before one's ears.That undoubtedly was the feeling of those ...
Charles Mingus: At UCLA
by Samuel Chell
Charles Mingus At UCLA Sunnyside Records 2006 The actual title of this CD is Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey, 1965. Not heard...played in its entirety at UCLA. Vols. 1 and 2. The apparent overkill of the title prepares us for more of the same in the accompanying booklet, which ...
Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
by David Rickert
Fats Waller If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Bluebird Jazz 2006 The first thing that strikes you about Fats Waller's music is how much fun it is. Today we recognize Waller as one of the first geniuses of jazz, both as a composer and as a musician, ...
Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952
by Jim Santella
Sonny Stitt Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952 Prestige 2006 Presented in chronological order, saxophonist Sonny Stitt's Prestige recordings, packaged here as a three-CD box set, reveal the pure tenor tone and fluid technique that Stitt always brought to a session. Most of the selections are from 1950, ...
Donald Byrd: Royal Flush
by Samuel Chell
Donald Byrd Royal Flush Blue Note 2006 One of a handful of Rudy Van Gelder remasters released this past August, Royal Flush would be welcome if only because it's the recording debut of Herbie Hancock. Looking all of fourteen in the photo included with the accompanying booklet (he was 21 ...
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra: 80th Birthday Concert
by Robert R. Calder
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra 80th Birthday Concert Concept Publishing 2005 Now and then in recent years, George Russell (born 1923) has attacked what he considers backward-looking tendencies in the playing of younger jazzmen. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra was among those who fell under grave suspicion. Yet ...
Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Sonny StittStitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952Prestige2006 There are two stories detractors tell about saxophonist Sonny Stitt (1924-82). Actually, his detractors tell many stories, but these two are chiefly musical. The first says that Stitt's musical inventiveness amounted to no more than being a reasonably good Charlie ...
Joe Lovano: Streams Of Expression
by Robert R. Calder
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note Records 2006 Forget those ill-founded accusations of conservatism. Joe Lovano is a genuine innovator. He's uninterested in novelty for novelty's sake and he's very, very ambitious for his music. He makes things more interesting for everybody, including himself, by (no apologies for the ...
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