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Lester Young: Live at Birdland
by Graham L. Flanagan
Whenever a label decides to blow the dust off of a live Lester Young recording, the results are unlikely to disappoint. Such is the case with Live at Birdland, which fits on one disc three different live radio broadcasts. The first of the three sets was recorded January 15, 1953 and broadcast on ...
Organ-mania: Trudy Pitts, Radam Schwartz, Gary Versace & Jimmy Smith
by Graham L. Flanagan
Trudy Pitts Live at the Great American Music Hall Doodlin' 2007 Radam Schwartz Conspiracy for Positivity: Magic Tales Arabesque 2007 Gary Versace Reminiscence Steeplechase 2007
Jentsch Group Large: Brooklyn Suite
by Graham L. Flanagan
It's nice to see that some of that grant-money floating around out there is being put to good use. Such is the case with guitarist Chris Jentsch's Brooklyn Suite, a 2005 live recording of a complex-yet-highly rewarding suite for 18-piece ensemble. Underwritten by the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Foundation, the project takes full advantage ...
Miles Davis: The Complete On The Corner Sessions
by Graham L. Flanagan
What better gift could you think of bestowing on the Miles Davis fan in your family this holiday season than the exhaustively comprehensive The Complete On The Corner Sessions--a set that expands on the legendary trumpeter's 1972 release that some interpreted as a “f*#k you to his loyal fan base. Although On The ...
Dave Brubeck: Indian Summer
by Graham L. Flanagan
Fifty years after the release of his classic solo session Dave Brubeck Plays and Plays and ... (Original Jazz Classics, 1957), the jazz legend delivers another opportunity for his fans to hear him in an intimate setting. Indian Summer can be seen as a sort of companion piece to Plays and Plays and.... They are, in ...
Kenny Drew: Farmer
by Graham L. Flanagan
Art Farmer Farmer's Market (RVG) Blue Note 2007 Kenny Drew Undercurrent Blue Note 2007 Warne Marsh/Kenny Drew In Copenhagen Storyville 2007 ...
Herbie Hancock: Jazz to Funk
by Graham L. Flanagan
Aussie label AIM's motives might need to be called into question with the release of the new Herbie Hancock set Jazz to Funk. It features the reissues of two obscure sessions from the '60s, both of which have been seen before, albeit under different titles. The first disc, previously released under drummer Albert ...
Skerik: Husky
by Graham L. Flanagan
Harry J. Anslinger, the United States' original Drug Czar, invented an unusual term to sum up what he considered as the moral decay caused by the collision of the jazz and drug cultures in the 1930s and 1940s: “syncopated taint." Popular tenor sax phenom Skerik--fresh off of a 2005 tour with Mike Clark's Headhunters--adopted ...
Curtis Fuller and Louis Hayes at Jazz Standard
by Graham L. Flanagan
Curtis Fuller and Louis Hayes Jazz Standard New York, NY March 25, 2006 A packed Jazz Standard played host to two illustrious members of the hard-bop movement's old guard on March 25 as Curtis Fuller and Louis Hayes--along with veteran pianist John Hicks--led an ensemble of “rising stars featuring ...
