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Byard Lancaster: Live at Macalester College
by Hrayr Attarian
Sometimes the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and sometimes it is less. The latter is true for this reissue of Live at Macalester College by the Byard Lancaster unit. The music, deftly played and improvised by all the musicians, is avant-garde and free jazz in character during the leader's various horn solos, ...
Ornette Coleman Quartet at the Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington, Vermont
by Hrayr Attarian
Ornette Coleman Quartet Discover Jazz Festival, Flynn TheaterBurlington, Vermont June 6th, 2008 Ornette Coleman and his quartet were the headline act that closed the exceptionally successful 25th Annual Discover Jazz Festival, playing to an almost full house at the Flynn Theatre in downtown Burlington on June 7th 2008. The musicians walked ...
Duke Pearson, Andrew Hill, Don Pullen, Randy Weston, McCoy Tyner: Pianists of the Mosaic Select Series
by Hrayr Attarian
Does limited edition always translate to music of outstanding quality? In the Mosaic Select series more often than not it does. There are, however, some discs that are stimulating without being outstanding, and even a rare set catching an artist's career at its low point. This variation in standard is apparent in the six ...
Buddy Bolden: The Sky Is Blue
by Hrayr Attarian
2008 will always be remembered fondly in the world of jazz because it's the year of this music's greatest discovery. Buddy Bolden's only recording is no longer stuff of legend and lore, but a reality. The story of this great find sounds almost fictional: A graduate student at the University of Kansas while helping a local ...
Akira Miyazawa: Four Units
by Hrayr Attarian
The name Akira Miyazawa, rarely if ever, appears in jazz reference books, at least not in ones available in North America. Other than some sites selling his CDs, the internet does not offer much about the saxophonist. This is a shame since his recordings tell the story of an accomplished musician whose work has remained intriguing ...
Quartetto Di Lucca: Quartetto
by Hrayr Attarian
When one thinks of jazz in Italy few names come immediately to mind: Enrico Rava, Stefano Battaglia and maybe even Carlo Actis Dato, but definitely not Quartetto di Lucca, a short lived Modern Jazz Quartet-inspired group from the late 1950s. In 2006, RCA Europe's The Vibe subdivision released the group's only album, originally released in 1962, ...
Kenny Cox: Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet
by Hrayr Attarian
Much like the pop music world has its so called “one hit wonders, jazz has also had those musicians who produced one or two excellent records and then faded into obscurity, only to have their records become collector items decades later. Blue Note Records, more than any other mainstream label, has recorded these talented, but ill-recognized ...
Michael Kocour: Speaking in Tongues
by Hrayr Attarian
Recording a tribute album is a brave and often thankless undertaking since listeners and reviewers are bound to compare the musician doing the recording to the one to whom homage is being paid. This becomes a more courageous act when the subject of the album is not one but two giants of modern music: pianists Bud ...
David Lackner: Chapter One
by Hrayr Attarian
With few exceptions there are two types of debut albums in jazz. The first is a perfect and brilliant work that becomes the high point of the musician's career, whose later works are always compared to that first flash of brilliance. The second is a solid, interesting and intriguing work that, although far from perfect, serves ...
Mike Longo: Float Like a Butterfly
by Hrayr Attarian
When an essential element is missing from a recording, even the highest quality of musicianship cannot make up for its absence. There is no doubt that Mike Longo and his trio, featuring bassist Paul West and drummer Jimmy Wormworth, are musicians and improvisers of the first order, but on Float Like a Butterfly one cannot shake ...
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