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Eddie South: 1933: The Cheloni Broadcast Transcriptions
by George Kanzler
Eddie South was one of the earliest jazz violinists--he recorded in 1923 (Joe Venuti, often thought of as the earliest, didn't record until 1924) and one of the first African/American jazz musicians to play extensively in Europe. South was also a highly-trained violinist, having studied at the Chicago College of Music and the Paris Conservatory; if ...
Champian Fulton: Champian
by George Kanzler
Nobody does Duke-style big band music better than David Berger's Sultans of Swing, so just hearing this big band so attuned to swing with such Ellington-ian touches as muted lead and solo brass voices, and weaving saxophones and clarinets is a joy. That the arrangements all feature singer Champian Fulton is not always such a plus. ...
Trombonucopia: Trombone for Two/Jay and Kai; The Trombones, Inc.; Trombone Heaven, Vancouver 1978; SteepleChase Jam Session, Vol. 23
by George Kanzler
JJ Johnson/Kai Winding Trombone for Two/Jay and Kai Mosaic 2007 Bob Brookmeyer/Jimmy Cleveland/Frank Rosolino The Trombones, Inc. Warner Bros-Lone Hill 2007 Frank Rosolino/Carl Fontana Trombone Heaven, Vancouver, 1978 Uptown 2007 Various Artists Jam Session, Vol. 23 ...
Martial Solal: Solal Seul
by George Kanzler
Lorraine Gordon has been trying to persuade pianist Martial Solal to return to the Village Vanguard ever since his unfortunately timed debut there, with a trio, in September of 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Solal, claiming he was too lazy at his age to travel to New York (he was 80 this August, 2007), kept ...
Reservoir Music
by George Kanzler
When you Google “Reservoir Music", the top hit on the Google list is for the Japanese distributor's website. Mark Feldman, the Kingston, NY doctor who runs the label with his wife Kayla, isn't surprised. “Japan really helps to keep the label alive," he says. “We have significant sales there, especially with our piano trio ...
Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: At The Bimhuis 1982
by George Kanzler
Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy (1934-2004) and pianist Mal Waldron (1925-2002) worked together in bands from 1958, but coalesced as a duo in 1981, continuing sporadically for two decades. Both expatriates in Europe, At the Bimhius 1982 captures them at the Amsterdam club in December of that year in just-now-released recordings. Although Lacy was ...
Charles Mingus: Epitaph's Return
by George Kanzler
Charles Mingus' place in jazz history was secured well before his death at fifty-six in 1979. He had made his mark as one of the music's great bassists, most uncompromising bandleaders and original composers. But an event that happened ten years after his death created a tsunami spreading throughout the jazz world, now known as Mingus ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by George Kanzler
Stephen Foster was America's first pop songwriter, his music widely sung and played, as well as reproduced on music boxes (this album begins and ends with examples) in the last half of the 19th Century. But Foster is not the only uniquely American musician clarinetist Andy Biskin takes inspiration from in this idiosyncratic album. The spirit ...
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business
by George Kanzler
This is a “ghost band" in the midst of an exorcism. Dizzy's ghost is almost gone. Past editions of this band featured Jon Faddis, Dizzy's most faithful acolyte, on trumpet, carrying the torch. No torch carriers here: sans Faddis, the other trumpeters obviously feel no compunction to channel Dizzy bop lines in their solos. And while ...
Kenny Davern: No One But Kenny
by George Kanzler
The album title could stand as a fitting epitaph for clarinetist Kenny Davern, who died of a heart attack in December, 2006 at seventy-one. For no one else played jazz quite like Davern, whose affection for old trad jazz tunes belied a quirky sense of time as singular as Thelonious Monk's and a cavalier attitude toward ...
