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Sonny Rollins: Worktime & The Sound of Sonny
by Javier AQ Ortiz
The following recordings represent stations in the mid-50s...-as vital a period in Sonny Rollins' career as any as much of his reputation was built upon this period. The earliest of the two finds Rollins wondering whether he could perform after kicking his heroin habit, signalling his return to the jazz scene after rehab; the latter has ...
Jimmy Greene Quartet: Forever
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Forever offers a choice of reasons for celebration. Its repertoire, mostly based on music inspired by the Protestant and so-called Evangelical versions of the Christian faith, is a somewhat unexplored vein that contains rich melodic and evocative deposits yet to be strip-mined. Although there certainly are examples of its interpretation throughout the history of jazz, much ...
Jazz the Norway
by Javier AQ Ortiz
2005 marks the centennial of Norwegian independence from Sweden. Though you might not know it, Norwegians can, have been, and will be jazzing things up for quite a long time. Some are even among us in NYC! The field of jazz studies is indebted to jazz historians Bjørn Stendahl and Johs Bergh whose published ...
Dances; On Fire Hierseins-Erfahrungen; Emission
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Musical vanguardist and multi-instrumentalist Gunter Hampel has been under the spell of jazz since the end of WWII. By the end of the '50s, he was already a full-fledged European professional jazz musician and by the '60s, he had made lasting inroads into the North American jazz scene. Operating out of Germany and the USA, after ...
Manuel Valera: Forma Nueva
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Pianist Manuel Valera reminds me of the popularity Sonny Rollins had among music critics at the beginning of his career. Like Valera, the saxophonist entered the jazz scene fully developed. Valera, however, might take issue with such an observation, although his own productions to date would argue against him in that regard. Of those, Forma Nueva, ...
Mick Rossi: One Block From Planet Earth
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Mick Rossi's music brings to mind a couple of things. On one hand, it's reminiscent of Richard Feynman's life and work. Feynman, as is the quintet in One Block From Planet Earth, was multifaceted, humorous, life-relishing, unpretentiously profound, and a superb communicator of abstract concepts. On the other, it's reminiscent of the primeval concept of “talking ...
Freddy Cole: Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Originally released either in 1956, according to Freddy Cole's official website, or 1964, per the reissue's information, Waiter Ask The Man to Play the Blues: Freddie Cole Sings & Plays Some Lonely Ballads isn't--as the title might tempt one to think--an exercise in despondent blues and wrist slashing. Actually, it has plenty of tight, low, sizzling ...
Instant Party & Jerry Gonzalez y Los Piratas del Flamenco
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Poncho Sánchez Instant Party Concord Picante 2004Poncho Sánchez' Instant Party is part of a Concord series that includes similar compilations from Gene Harris, Tito Puente, Mongo SantamarÃ-a and Mel Tormé. “Just Add the willingness to have a good booty-shaking time and Poncho will bring the party home for ...
Charlie Haden: Land of the Sun
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Land of the Sun could--perhaps even should--be retitled Bolero: Gonzalo Rubalcaba Presents the Music of José Sabre MarroquÃ-n with Charlie Haden. This recording is about prowess of interpretative melodic dynamics; harmonic, rhythmic, and tonal beauty; and rigorous poetic tenderness. Playing jazzed boleros at this level of musicianship isn't an easy matter nonetheless. One must ...
Steve Turr: The Spirits Up Above
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Steve Turré first saw Roland Kirk performing almost forty years ago. The Spirits Up Above is a long-overdue homage to the Vibration Society's leader by one of its most distinguished alumni. Furthermore, this is a 24-bit engineered, mixed, and mastered recording by Rudy Van Gelder. Turré, sans seashells, offers only one original composition on ...
