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Various Artists: The Prestige Records Story
by Robert Spencer
This is much more than the history of just one label: this is a primer of modern jazz. The sweep of Bob Weinstock and Prestige Records, particularly in the Fifties and early Sixties, was so broad that this collection encompasses a large part of the jazz that mattered in those days. There is a stunning roster ...
Eddie Henderson: Inspiration
by Bob Jacobson
After being so impressed with Eddie Henderson's trumpet work on Billy Harper's 1990 album Destiny Is Yours, I wanted to hear him as a leader. Little did I know that he'd also played with Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson, Art Blakey, Kenny Barron and McCoy Tyner. The result of those experiences is strongly in evidence ...
Charles Earland: Intensity
by AAJ Staff
You hear it at once: a different sound, not always for the better. The music was changing, and Charles Earland joined his easy groove to the lush CTI sound so popular at the time. Results vary: the Burner is hot but too many horns spoil the brew. Take “Goin' Home": a rock guitar crashes through the ...
Cannonball Adderley: Phenix
by Douglas Payne
Consider how fate portions what it takes and what it gives. Cannonball Adderley's death by stroke in August 1975 robbed music of one of the most distinctive, dynamic and delightful sounds ever known to jazz. But the big man built a considerable and hugely popular musical catalog over three decades and, on the very precipice of ...
Sonny Rollins: The Complete Prestige Recordings
by Robert Spencer
1999 AFIM Indie Awards (Association for Independent Music) nominee for best Mainstream Jazz recording: Sonny Rollins's Global Warming. Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the Second Annual Jazz Awards, held in New York in mid-June: tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Top tenor saxophonist in Down Beat's 47th annual International Critics Poll: Sonny Rollins. Subject of two forthcoming books: ...
Charles Earland: Intensity
by Douglas Payne
For 1972's Intensity, Charles Earland's fifth of ten Prestige discs, the Mighty Burner seemed to be aiming toward something a little different than his usual collection of soulful tenor-organ jams. The presence of two songs from the rock group Chicago and a small trumpet-dominated horn section indicate that jazz-rock was the goal. The result, the LP's ...
Eric Alexander: Man With A Horn
by Douglas Payne
Think of the stunning array of tenor greats buoyed at one time or another by pianist Cedar Walton: John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Clifford Jordan, Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Lucky Thompson, Junior Cook, George Coleman and Stanley Turrentine to name only a few. And these associations take into account neither the considerable number ...
Eric Alexander: Man With A Horn
by Glenn Astarita
A best seller in Japan in 1997, Man With A Horn has recently been released Stateside by the folks at Milestone records. Thirty-year-old tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander shows quite a bit of verve and panache on this release. Alexander’s funk-swing based “Unsung Hero” glowingly demonstrates his sure-fired, well-pronounced phrasing and cleverly stated lyricism through his huge ...
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald in Budapest
by AAJ Staff
The year is 1970, and Ella is changing. The girlish voice is beginning to fray, and at times a faint rasp sneaks in. It becomes another weapon, giving some words urgency and other words charm. Her repertoire is mostly “modern”, with three tunes from Burt Bacharach. Her brief stay at Reprise Records had stressed such material, ...
Joe Henderson: In Pursuit of Blackness / Black is the Color
by Robert Spencer
Rather famously, Joe Henderson released a series of albums for Milestone in the early Seventies that courted popular acceptance in a variety of ways: most notably, he played modal proto-world music with Alice Coltrane and added an electric piano and other frou-frou to his ensembles in order to catch the fusion crowd. Nothing worked, and these ...
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