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Lennie Tristano: Abstraction & Improvisation
by Nic Jones
Pianist, composer and educator Lennie Tristano's place in the history of the music seems anomalous from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. His music was arguably as iconoclastic as that of Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's and equally of its time, but in contrast with that it can come across as colorless and one-dimensional. His ...
Dave Brubeck: Brubeck In Wonderland
by David Rickert
Brubeck recorded his most durable work with Time Out, which launched a series of successful albums by the stately jazzman for the Columbia label in 1959. However, his earlier works for the Fantasy label, which find him fully entrenched in the cool scene, are arguably more rewarding. Brubeck had not yet stumbled upon the gimmickry of ...
Milt Jackson: Da Capo
by Nic Jones
Milt Jackson was to the vibraphone what Bud Powell was to the piano, in terms of how he disseminated the expansive harmonic vocabulary of bebop. This set, featuring both his early small group work and a fledgling Modern Jazz Quartet, indicates just how expansive his music was in the first decades of his career. “Baggy Eyes" ...
Django Reinhardt: Keep Cool: Guitar Solos 1950-53
by David Rickert
Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known. Facing artistic obsolescence while jazz fans who once embraced him were hooked on the latest thing, Django assembled a new quintet of players schooled in bebop instead of swing to produce some records that were decidedly modern in feel. Long gone were the Hot Club with Stephane ...
All About Chris
By Chris Connor
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2006
Track listing: All About Ronnie; Lullaby Of Birdland; What Is There To Say?; Try A Little Tenderness; Spring Is Here; Why Shouldn't I?; Lush Life; Out Of This World; A Cottage For Sale; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Stella By Starlight; Goodbye; He's Coming Home; Riding High; Blame It On My Youth; Trouble Is A Man; All This And Heaven Too; I Concentrate On You; A Good Man Is A Seldom Thing; Don't Wait Up For Me; Fly Me To The Moon.
Pavane For Ahmad
By Ahmad Jamal
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Ahmad
Keep the Coffee Coming
By Anita O'Day
Label: FiveFour
Released: 2006
Track listing: Lover Come Back To Me; Lullaby Of The Leaves; Love For Sale; Speak Low; Strawberry Moon; Pagan Love Song; Ain't This A Wonderful Day; Somebody's Cryin'; Vaya Con Dios; The Gypsy In My Soul; Anita's Blues; I Cover The Waterfront; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; From This Moment On; You Don't Know What Love Is; You're The Top; Who Cares; I Can't Get Started; Fine And Dandy; As Long As I Live.
Chris Connor: All About Chris
by David Rickert
Chris Connor is one of many blond-haired kittens whose vocals were popular during the fifties. Like many of her fellow canaries, she got her start in the big bands (Thornhill's and Kenton's, in this case) before becoming successful enough to strike out on her own. Leaving the big band sound behind for the intimacy of the ...
Ahmad Jamal: Pavane For Ahmad
by Nic Jones
Some of Ahmad Jamal's detractors over the years have expressed the opinion that his music belongs as much in a cocktail lounge as in a jazz club. The fact of the matter has perhaps always been that he's got no closer to that dubious location than Errol Garner did, and this collection of his sides from ...
Anita O: Keep the Coffee Coming
by C. Michael Bailey
Keep the Coffee Coming is a collection of eighteen small, medium and big band recordings fronted by Anita O'Day from 1952 to 1955. This is the period just prior to O'Day's climb toward her zenith with Verve records. During this period, O'Day was recording for the Norman Granz pre-Verve labels Clef and Norgram. It is not ...
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