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Jim Snidero: Strings
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz soloists especially like to make two types of recordings--those in duo with piano and those with strings . Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis made very fine piano duet recordings (Pepper and Morgan with the same pianist, George Cables, Gillespie and Faddis with Oscar Peterson). But seemingly, the Holy Grail of jazz ...
Sonny Rollins: With the Modern Jazz Quartet
by David Rickert
First off, don't be misled by the title--Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet only appear together on four of the thirteen selections. This CD is in fact comprised of three separate sessions from 1951- 53: one track recorded at the tail end of a Miles Davis session, eight done by Rollins' working quartet, and four featuring ...
Horace Silver: Paris Blues: Olympia Theater, Paris, 1962
by C. Michael Bailey
This is the classic Horace Silver Quintet. It existed and recorded here while Miles was between his two great quintets, just before Art Blakey recorded Caravan with Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter, and while John Coltrane was assembling his classic quartet. This concert takes place almost half way between Finger Poppin' With the Horace Silver Quintet ...
Ahmed Abdul-Malik: Jazz Sounds of Africa
by David Rickert
Ahmed Abdul-Malik was a resourceful and versatile bassist capable of fitting in with the groups of Thelonious Monk, Herbie Mann, and others. On his few recordings as a leader, he dove head first into his fascination with African music, documented on the two early '60s sessions collected here on Jazz Sounds of Africa. ...
Isaac Hayes: Isaac Hayes at Wattstax
by C. Michael Bailey
A Hot August Night in the Valley. Once upon a dream, in a galaxy far, far away, Isaac Hayes stood not as the vocal track for a silly cable TV cartoon sporting human stool as a character, but as the finest singer/songwriter/musician American music had to offer. Before establishing himself as a top solo ...
George Shearing/Cannonball Adderley Quintets: At Newport
by C. Michael Bailey
The Newport Jazz Festival, July 5, 1957. At Newport is a potent study in contrasts. Presented here are back-to-back sets, all previously unreleased, by the respective quintets at the 1957 event. Adderley’s band emits the Southern funk of the Delta, the church, and the roadhouse, testifying the cleansing fire of the blues. Shearing, on ...
Charlie Byrd: Byrd Song
by Derek Taylor
Eclectic is an adjective easily applied to Charlie Byrd. Over the course of his career the guitarist shaped a reputation as a genre-hopping virtuoso who crossed over into Latin, classical, country and popular music camps, while retaining his abiding affection for jazz. His preference for acoustic over-amplified strings also set him apart from his peers. Certain ...
McCoy Tyner: 13th House
by Derek Taylor
As with any art form, ambitious undertakings in jazz can be a tight rope enterprise. Marshalling substantial resources and broad rosters sometimes yields brilliance, other times it amounts to ill- advised self-indulgence. A survey of McCoy Tyner’s early post-Coltrane oeuvre shows the pianist often reaching for an expansive orchestral sound as well as incorporating a wide ...
Charlie Byrd: Byrd Song
by David Rickert
Byrd Song is a peculiar album, even from a man whose career was always hard to pigeonhole. Although not as well-known or perhaps as highly regarded as Wes Mongomery or Kenny Burrell, Byrd was an accomplished guitarist who fused classical technique and jazz licks on everything from standards to Brazilian folk music. On Byrd Song (recorded ...
Shelley Manne and his Friends: Modern Jazz Performances of Songs From Li'l Abner
by David Rickert
Sometimes mediocre albums can be more frustrating than lousy albums, simply because one can see the possibility of a great performance lurking behind the clouds. Shelley Manne certainly could have followed his best-selling jazz adaptation of My Fair Lady with a better choice than Li’l Abner, a lackluster musical with a Broadway run shorter than the ...
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