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Tribute to Bird & Monk
Label: Labor Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Air Conditioning; Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are; Au Privave; Straight No Chaser; Misterioso; Perhaps.
Troy Collins' Best Releases of 2011
by Troy Collins
Compiling end of the year lists is never easy. Considering the quantity of recordings issued during a year, attempting to mention every noteworthy session would result in a list of epic proportions. These few albums are a cross-section of some of the best modern jazz released in 2011, highlighting sophisticated new developments in composition and improvisation--from ...
Heiner Stadler: Tribute to Bird and Monk
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the winter of 1978, Heiner Stadler lent his consummate skill to conceiving, arranging and conducting a project featuring the music of two of the most beloved icons of modern music: Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker. Tribute to Monk and Bird (Tomato, 1978) was released as a 2-LP set, produced by Michael Cuscuna, and eleven years ...
Heiner Stadler: Tribute to Bird & Monk
by Nic Jones
Tribute to Bird & Monk is a scintillating blast recorded in 1978, when the battle lines between innovation and the tradition were clearly drawn. In tackling compositions by Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, and casting them in a fresh light, arranger Heiner Stadler obviously wasn't shy about playing the provocative agent. Initially it sounds as if ...
Heiner Stadler: Tribute to Bird & Monk
by Troy Collins
Originally released in 1978 as a double LP by Tomato Records, Tribute to Bird & Monk is as revelatory now as when it was awarded a five star review in Downbeat over three decades ago. This unique tribute transcends convention, featuring a stellar cast of musicians performing under-sung German composer Heiner Stadler's polyphonic orchestrations of be-bop ...
A Welcome Reissue of Heiner Stadler's "Tribute to Bird and Monk" and How Wrong is Right
I keep coming back to Ken Burn's jazz series because it towed a particular party line (musically speaking) that I have disagreements with, and because it reached so many people who otherwise would not have gotten some kind of comprehensive overview of jazz in its 100-or-so- year history. (That's good, but that also means that a ...
Labor Records reissues Heiner Stadler's pioneering album
Featuring a stellar group of NY musicians, this critically acclaimed tribute, long unavailable, continues to sound as fresh and daring as it did when originally released. Remixed for the first time to digital from original sources by noted engineer Malcolm Addey A truly groundbreaking landmark recording, Tribute To Bird and Monk, was widely lauded when it ...
Conference Call: What About...?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
It has been said that live music offers the composer the opportunity to add the final ingredient in the decoction of their creation: the audience. In the case of Conference Call's 2007 concert in Krakow, Poland, documented on the double-disc What About...?, there's the dramatic addition of completely spontaneous, improvisations by one or more of the ...
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: Merengue
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Carlos Barbosa-Lima Merengue Zoho Music 2009There is distinct nobility surrounding the virtuosity of guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima. His South American sojourn, Merengue, presents sweeping vistas and myriad emotions described with degrees of technical superiority only a few other musicians have achieved. Unfortunately, Barbosa-Lima's reputation has not kept pace with ...
Jazz Alchemy
Label: Labor Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Jazz Alchemy: Still Bebop; Three Problems (duo version 2); Jazz Alchemy: The Nod; Three Problems (solo version 1); Jazz Alchemy: Out-Rock; Jazz Alchemy: Self-portrait; Three Problems (solo version 2); Jazz Alchemy: Brooding; Three Problems (duo version 1); Jazz Alchemy: Latin Gretchen; Three Problems (solo version 3).
