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Joe Locke Quintet: Slander (And Other Love Songs)
by Glenn Astarita
Vibraphonist Joe Locke has been a much in demand session musician for several years but steps out as a leader and composer in impressive fashion on “Slander (And Other Love Songs)”. Locke’s “Song For Cables”, commences with verve and exhilaration as the seasoned rhythm section of Rufus Reid (b) and Gene Jackson (d) set an up-tempo ...
Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Teddy Charles: Olio
by AAJ Staff
The title is not misspelled, and the Sonny Rollins tune is not played here. (Ira Gitler made this point in the original liner notes; it’s a point still worth making.) “Olio” is an old vaudeville term meaning “medley” or “variety”, and that’s what you get in this Prestige jam session from 1957. While some do not ...
Red Garland: The Nearness of You
by AAJ Staff
From time to time Red Garland would do something new in his long series of albums, injecting some variety into his classic formula. Sometimes it was an added musician, or there’d be a “theme” album like WHEN THERE ARE GREY SKIES, full of old tunes like “St. James Infirmary”. This is one of the latter – ...
Nat Adderley: Little Big Horn!
by AAJ Staff
Not that it’s fair, but Nat Adderley will always be considered the Little Brother; he was even billed that way on an album. Tunes like “Work Song” built the funky base of the Adderley band, he used Wes Montgomery at the start of his meteoric rise, and Ellis Marsalis on a New Orleans live album Still ...
Dexter Gordon: Ca'Purange
by AAJ Staff
At this time, Dexter was living in Paris. When he came to the States, Prestige would record him, part of a deal that would end in the early ‘Seventies. This one, from 1972, features an all-star band (including a fresh-faced Stanley Clarke) who challenge Dexter and benefit from his interplay. This one takes a little while ...
Oscar Peterson: Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980
by AAJ Staff
This isn’t Jazz at the Philharmonic, but the feeling is much the same. A loose jam session of familiar standards (plus two ringers, of which more later) played by some of the best. The veterans, having done this many times before, look at each other and then proceed to give the people what they came to ...
Various Artists: Brazilian Horizons, Volume 2
by AAJ Staff
This continues a series from last year, showing the lasting influence of samba/bossa nova on jazz musicians, and their effect, in turn, on Brazil. While Volume One was mostly in the ‘Seventies, this one digs deep, going nearly a quarter-century to show how long the two musics have been married – and how deep the love ...
Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins: Bluesy Burrell
by AAJ Staff
This is the third Prestige album Burrell made with Coleman Hawkins, each with a different mood. The first, SOUL, was a gentle small group session with a nice version of “Greensleeves". The next, the underrated THE HAWK RELAXES, was a graceful ballad set, originally for the Moodsville label. This record was also for Moodsville, but this ...
L. Subramaniam: Indian Express/Mani & Co.
by Glenn Astarita
“Indian Express and Mani & Co. represent the 2nd and 4th LP’s recorded by Indian Violinist L. Subramaniam, originally released in 1984 & 1985 respectively. In the liners Dr. Subramaniam asserts that this music could be called “Neo-Fusion” for blending elements of Indian, European and North American compositional form. The supporting cast reads as a Who’s ...
Sonny Criss: Intermission Riff
by AAJ Staff
The tapes were on a high shelf in an old storeroom, so lost that their labels were barely legible. Producer Eric Miller stumbled upon them while putting other tapes back; the faint scrawling ("JATP/SHRINE/1951") piquing his interest. With the personnel unlisted, there was nothing to do but listen. “As soon as I heard the alto, I ...
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