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Tubby Hayes: Intensity: The 1965 Tapes
by George Kanzler
The late '50s and early '60s were a great time for jazz at clubs in downtown Manhattan. It was a heyday for tenor saxophonists; such giants as Sonny Rollins, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Wayne Shorter, Booker Ervin and Tubby Hayes could be heard at cozy spots like New ...
Jimmy Cobb: Tough Guys & Stickadiboom
by George Kanzler
GenerationsTough GuysICA2008 Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy CobbStickadiboom ZoHo2009 Jimmy Cobb, the latest member of the jazz octogenarian drummers club (Charli Persip joins later this year), is the common thread ...
Dick Hyman: Thinking About Bix (Piano Solo)
by George Kanzler
A piano is not a cornet. That should be obvious, yet both the name of the label, Reference Recordings and statements like this one by pianist Dick Hyman in the notes--"As with all of these replicas, I've tried to reproduce Bix' solo exactly."--belie that obvious fact. Hyman's reproductions of cornet solos by Bix Beiderbecke lack not ...
Will Bernard: Blue Plate Special & Night for Day
by George Kanzler
Will BernardBlue Plate SpecialPalmetto2008 Bernard/Emer/Lackner/FerberNight for DayBrooklyn Jazz Underground Records2008 Guitarist Will Bernard is the common denominator on these two stylistically divergent CDs. On Blue Plate Special he's joined by ...
Sahib Shihab: And the Danish Radio Jazz Group
by George Kanzler
Made in the mid-'60s, over a decade before Thad Jones led the Danish Radio Big Band, this gem of an album offers more evidence of the centrality of Denmark to the modern, post-World War II jazz scene. It's also a forceful reminder of the limitations of the “great names" approach to jazz history, where such worthy ...
Charli Persip
by George Kanzler
People looking for the magic elixir, the Fountain of Youth, should stop looking and start jazz drumming. Charli Persip, who'll turn 80 in July, will soon join Roy Haynes and Chico Hamilton as fully active octogenarian jazz drummers with busy careers. Persip grew up in Newark, NJ and, after touring with Dizzy Gillespie's small group and ...
Benny Golson: New Time, New 'Tet & The Best Of
by George Kanzler
The seductive charm that makes Benny Golson's “Whisper Not" so appealing has not diminished in half a century, as is evident when listening to the two performances found here, one recorded in 1956, the other just last year. The latter, with Al Jarreau singing the Leonard Feather lyrics with surprising sensitivity, comes from Golson's latest version ...
Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
by George Kanzler
Willie Nelson / Wynton Marsalis Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC Eagle Eye 2008 Willie Nelson has the final word on this DVD, heard over the closing credits, and he nails it: “You know, labels were invented to sell the music. You had to name it before ...
Steve Davis: Outlook
by George Kanzler
Trombonist Steve Davis has spent much of his two-decade jazz career in larger ensembles--big bands but most notably sextets, from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Chick Corea's Origin and the co-op band One for All to Benny Golson's New Jazztet. But when Davis leads his own bands or puts out his own records he thinks smaller. Outlook ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Showtime at The Spotlite
by George Kanzler
Clark Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem was an incubator of bebop, so it wasn't a surprise that Monroe gave Dizzy Gillespie a venue for reviving his big band at the short-lived (1944 to early 1947) 52nd Street club, The Spotlite, in 1946. Two CDs capture two sets toward the end of that historic engagement in June, ...
