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The Elliot Lawrence Big Band: Swings Cohn and Kahn
by Jack Bowers
There's far more Cohn than Kahn on these studio / live dates from the '50s by the Elliot Lawrence Big Band, but that's not a criticism, merely an observation, as both Tiny and Al were superlative big--band writer / arrangers and this generously timed release includes topnotch material from both as well as several handsome charts ...
Jimmy Smith: Fourmost Return
by David A. Orthmann
An informal, occasionally rambling conversation between longtime colleagues,Fourmost Returnconsists of seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1990 live performance at Fat Tuesday’s in New York City. With an emphasis on blues material, the record is a no frills blowing session, a format ideally suited to the individual talents of organist and leader Jimmy Smith, tenor saxophonist ...
Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, Ralph Burns and the Herdsmen: Play Paris
by Jack Bowers
In early 1954, while Woody Herman’s Third Herd was touring Europe, a number of Woody’s sidemen took the opportunity to pick up some spare change by collaborating on a couple of sessions in Paris for French record executive Charles Delaunay. The results of the Paris dates are documented on tracks 1–8 of this reissue on Fantasy; ...
Thelonious Monk: Thelonius Monk Trio
by David Rickert
Ben Franklin reported in his autobiography that he once spent the better part of a day sharpening an old ax, determined to return it to its original luster. He finally gave up, concluding that perhaps “a speckled ax was best after all". By this he meant that sometimes the imperfections inherent in things are what make ...
Sandole Brothers: And Friends
by Derek Taylor
The close-up shot of Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell that adorns the cover of this disc is exemplary of the music contained inside. Tame by the furious standards set by 1960s free jazz the Sandole’s forward-thinking experiments with time signatures and harmonic emancipations easily fell into the Avant-Garde camp of 1950s jazz. LaPorta’s trio excursions which round out ...
Martin Taylor: In Concert
by David Adler
Martin Taylor, the Django-inspired Englishman who shared many a stage with the late Stephane Grappelli, has developed one of the brightest, purest guitar tones in the business. At Pittsburgh’s Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in 1998, Taylor showed off that tone in a solo setting, and this recording of the event is simply stunning. Jim Ohlschmidt’s liner notes ...
Red Rodney: The Quintets
by Derek Taylor
There’s scene in Clint Eastwood’s biopic Bird that immediately springs to mind hearing these seminal Red Rodney sides. In the scene Rodney is forced to sing in front of an audience of rural Southerners under the dubious alias of blues singer in order to substantiate a ruse devised by Charlie Parker to camouflage his quintet’s racially-integrated ...
Curtis Fuller/Hampton Hawes: Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns
by David Rickert
One would be hard pressed to find an instrument less suited to jazz than the French horn. Firmly rooted in classical music and played sitting down, the French horn seems almost to resist being pulled from the orchestra pit. Of course, this didn't stop people from using it. The wide experimentation of the forties and fifties ...
Duke Pearson: Dedication
by David Rickert
The jazz scene is replete with artists who died before they were able to realize the extent of their capabilities; Dick Twardzik, Booker Little, and Scott LaFaro were prodigious talents whose small recorded output gives us only a glimpse of the enormous talent each possessed. Add to this list Willie Wilson, whose sole performance on record ...
Mundell Lowe: A Grand Night for Swinging
by David Rickert
Mundell Lowe has always been on the fringes of the jazz scene, peering over the shoulders of guitar giants like Jim Hall and Herb Ellis and relegated to the long list of those deserving wider recognition. Even the most knowledgeable of jazz fans will end up scratching their heads at the mention of his name. His ...
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