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Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!! - The Music Of Ornette Coleman
by AAJ Staff
Here it is: Ornette's first recording, containing his most conventional compositions, one ("The Blessing") written in 1951. Even so, it came only after a long period of struggle ("...most musicians didn't take to me; they said I didn't know the changes and was out of tune.") He was an elevator operator in an L.A. department store; ...
Straight Up: Jimmy McGriff
by Ed Kopp
Jimmy McGriff considers himself a blues organist, not a jazzbo. Regardless of the label, McGriff is one of the most soulful B3 organ players alive, a verity he proves yet again on this fine release. Straight Up features two of my favorite tenor saxmen, the great David “Fathead" Newman and the elegant Frank Wess. ...
Tom Coster: Ivory Expedition
by Ed Kopp
Back in the early '80s, when I was a beer-swilling, poverty-stricken, disco-hating, post-college naif, my favorite kind of music was jazz-fusion. My early-80s self was particularly smitten by Tom Coster's first two solo records. I regretted having to sell those albums to a graduate student prior to one of my many cross-town moves. When I learned ...
Joe Locke: Slander (And Other Love Songs)
by Douglas Payne
This superb quintet session is the third, and undoubtedly best Milestone disc 39-year-old vibraphonist Joe Locke has released to date. Locke, a veteran of the Mingus Big Band and former Pepper Adams, Eddie Henderson, Dianne Reeve and Hiram Bullock sideman, has made his strongest personal statement with Slander (And Other Love Songs).The ...
Vince Guaraldi Trio: Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits
by Douglas Payne
This nice little holiday gift is easily confused with the popular soundtrack to the 1964 TV special,A Charlie Brown Christmas. But don't be fooled. Nine of the 14 tracks included here are culled from the 15 Peanuts holiday specials Vince Guaraldi scored before his untimely death at age 47 in 1976--and have never been released on ...
Alexander/Hicks/Mraz/Muhammad: Solid!
by Douglas Payne
Solid! is an aptly-titled tribute to Prestige Records, one year shy of its 50th anniversary. The music focuses squarely on the loose, swinging bebop the label made famous in the mid to late 1950s, when big names like Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane “headlined" sessions.Most ...
Barney Kessel: Exploring The Scene and Workin' Out
by Larry Koenigsberg
Back in the 1950's, before jazz was “America's classical music," when it was still a contender among the various genres in American popular music, Barney Kessel was the perennial winner of the guitarist's spot in the jazz polls which various magazines conducted. Readers of Downbeat, Playboy and the long-gone Metronome liked the clear electric timbre, swift ...
Arnett Cobb, Gene Ammons, Paul Quinichette, Booker Ervin: More Party Time, Angel Eyes, For Basie, Heavy!!!
by AAJ Staff
There are many ways to skin a cat, and there are many ways to approach a tenor. The goosestepping Jazz Police of Mighty Manhattan will tell you what they think the “correct" ways are, but in jazz, diversity is much more appealing than dogma. Reissued for Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics line, these OJCs are by heroes ...
Red Garland, Victor Feldman, Don Patterson: Red Garland Revisited!, The Arrival Of Victor Feldman, Boppin' And Burnin'
by AAJ Staff
Fantasy Records' Original Jazz Classics (OJC) series is up to almost 1000 titles; these three classics are among the titles Fantasy has recently reissued on CD for the series. When pianist Red Garland was signed to Prestige from 1956-62, he recorded so often that the label had plenty of material in the can long after he'd ...
Freddie Hubbard: Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980
by AAJ Staff
Freddie Hubbard's output grew increasingly erratic after his departure from CTI Records in the mid-1970s, and you never knew whether he would come out with a gem like Super Blue or an embarrassing “smooth jazz" stinker like Windjammer. Originally a two-LP set and now a single CD, Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980 definitely falls ...
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