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Preludes and Postludes: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings (Prestige) may seem a curious collection to certain MJQ fans. It’s a bookend compilation, with 54 remastered tracks from their 1952 – ’55 Prestige recordings near the beginning, and from their 1981 – ’85 Pablo recordings near the end, of their 48-year, illustrious and elegant ...
Rockin
by Chris M. Slawecki
“He’s not playing rock n’ roll solos on that record, he’s playing really great trumpet on a jazz level...everybody’s playing well on a jazz level. But it’s still blatantly a rock ‘n’ roll record.” -- Guitarist Robert Quine on Jack Johnson “This is the album that is going to get Miles ...
A Period of Transition: Miles @ the Blackhawk 1961
by Chris M. Slawecki
In early 1961, Miles Davis set out to record sessions that would become his Someday My Prince Will Come album. At the same time, he was phasing saxophonist Hank Mobley into, and John Coltrane out of, his working quintet. Someday proved a true transitional record, as Coltrane recorded solos for two songs and handed off the ...
Summer Vacation
by Chris M. Slawecki
Summer vacation usually means discovering new locations or revisiting favorite horizons for a fresh perspective. Here we explore music most likely found outside the “Jazz" section of your favorite online or retail music shop. Sometimes it's nice to travel...and sometimes it's nice to return home, too. Steely Dan: Everything Must Go (Reprise) ...
Lift Every Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jimmy Scott: Moon Glow (Milestone) It took a long time in coming, but Jimmy Scott’s sure found his career groove with his series of “comeback” albums with Todd Barkan for the Milestone label. Barkan somehow knows how to set up Scott’s distinctive vocal presence – an unparalleled dynamic between Scott’s exquisite sense of jazz ...
Adelante a Libertad! (Onward to Freedom!)
by Chris M. Slawecki
Latin music has been of such interest to me lately, I think, because it is generally played with passion and precision in a world that seems to hold both in short supply. To me, good Latin music usually sounds like a vibrant and colorful and noisy carnival. To borrow the lyric from “I Don’t Speak Spanish” ...
The Playin's The Thing
by Chris M. Slawecki
The Great Bard knew that sometimes, even more important than the final story, traveling the journey is just as essential to the tale. It’s often not just the song, but it’s the playing, that’s the thing. The Crusaders: Rural Renewal (PRA / Verve) It’s been more than twenty years ...
Paradise in Brazil
by Chris M. Slawecki
For decades, music from Brazil has served to illustrate valid arguments from BOTH sides of the classic “heredity vs. environment” debate. Listeners almost naturally sense an organic connection between the softly flowing rhythms of samba, bossa nova, and other Brazilian staples, and the tropical paradise of Brazil’s topography. At the same time, names such as “Jobim” ...
Thoughts of Chico Hamilton: Hollywood Swinging
by Chris M. Slawecki
He’s into his sixth decade of performing and recording, reaching way back to when he kept time for Lester Young and for Count Basie. But with his latest release, Thoughts of..., drummer Chico Hamilton demonstrates that he is not quite ready to drift into the mute pages of jazz history books just yet. ...
Latin Jazz to Warm Your Winter
by Chris M. Slawecki
Maybe it’s the insidious impact of its generally sunny climates, but Latin jazz, in its many forms, seems to project a sense of warmth. Faced with the prospect of a new winter’s chill, it’s comforting to rediscover in new Latin jazz releases that the source of this heat remains an eternal if occasionally flickering flame.
