Results for "Fantasy Jazz"

McCoy Tyner: Together

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1998

This relatively overlooked McCoy Tyner album features a septet of Tyner on piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and flugelhorn, Hubert Laws on flutes, Bennie Maupin on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes and marimba, Stanley Clarke on acoustic bass, Bill Summers on congas and percussion, and the uncredited Jack DeJohnette on drums. Tyner ...

Hank Crawford: Down on the Deuce

by Douglas Payne
March 1, 1998

Although Hank Crawford's second Milestone LP was made in 1984, it's never been available on CD until this 1998 release. It's a welcome, enjoyable date that finds Hank digging into what he does best. There's a bit 'a funk ("Survival"), a bit 'a blues ("Used To Be Love" and “Down Home Blues"), some ballads (the yucky ...

McCoy Tyner: Together

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1998

As he approaches 60, McCoy Tyner continues to be one of jazz's greatest living pianists. But it's a different kind of greatness from the McCoy of the 1960s and 1970s--who was (generally speaking) a more radical and risk-taking player than the standards-oriented and less adventurous (though still highly enjoyable) Tyner of today. Recorded in 1978 and ...

Lester Young: In Washington, DC 1956, Vol. 4

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1998

Some jazz critics contend that Lester “The Prez" Young went downhill after World War II, but don't believe it for a minute. The seminal tenorist (who died in 1958) continued to excel during the last years of his life, and one of the great things about his 1950s output is the fact that LPs gave him ...

Hiram Bullock: Carrasco

by Ed Kopp
February 1, 1998

Hiram Bullock is best known as the bare-footed lead guitarist in the old Late Nite With Letterman house band. A student under Pat Metheny at Miami, a member of David Sanborn's old band, and a well-traveled session player, Bullock has recorded eight solo albums since 1986. In the past, Bullock generated a fairly conventional ...

Hank Crawford / Jimmy McGriff: Road Tested

by Douglas Payne
January 1, 1998

Alto man Hank Crawford and organist Jimmy McGriff are made for each other. Mixing the right brew of blues, swing and funk, they compliment one another's soulful sound in distinctive style. Road Tested, the seventh pairing under both their names, is exactly what you'd expect from these two: the tried and trues of funk and blues. ...

Various Artists: Brazilian Horizons

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 1998

The influence of Caribbean and South American musical ideas on jazz goes as far back as Jelly Roll Morton and his “Latin tinge." Brazilian music, which first became popular in this country in the 60s with the samba craze, has always possessed a unique identity and sound. After Brazilian music was imported into America, a two ...

Keystone Trio: Newklear Music: The Songs of Sonny Rollins

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 1998

The title of the Keystone Trio's Newklear Music is deliciously pregnant with twin metaphors. The first is the play on Sonny Rollins' nickname “Newk" (a name he was ostensibly anointed with because of his resemblance to major league baseball pitcher Don Newcome). Rollins also represents a nuclear influence in Jazz. More compelling, however, is that this ...

By Request: Bud Shank Meets The Rhythm Section

By Bud Shank

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1997
Track listing:

September Song; Besame Mucho; Angel Eyes; Someday My Prince Will Come; Beautiful Love; I Remember Clifford; Tenderly; Here's That Rainy Day; I Remember You; Night And Day; Autumn.

Personel : Bud Shank - alto saxophone; Cyrus Chestnut - piano; George Mraz - bass; Lewis Nash - drums.

Landmarks

By Clifton Anderson

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1997