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Best Reissues of 2003
by C. Andrew Hovan
It seems to this reviewer that 2003 marked a turning point not only for new music but also for jazz reissues. Of course, most labels have maintained a very active back catalog program for several years now and so a great deal of product has made it to the marketplace. So at this point, holes are ...
Eric Kloss: Grits and Gravy
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of the true child prodigies of the ‘60s, saxophonist Eric Kloss holds the distinction of having a record contract with Prestige Records at the ripe young age of 15. Blind, smart as a whip, and technically proficient at even this early stage in his career, Kloss went on to make some remarkable albums up through ...
Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although largely ignored today except by astute guitar students, the late Gabor Szabo left behind a large body of work that is still very much misunderstood. A descendent of Hungarian gypsies, Szabo's guitar style was very much in line in with his heritage, full of dark and mysterious textures that were the antithesis of the modern ...
Mongo Santamaria: El Bravo
by C. Andrew Hovan
As one of the premier ambassadors of Latin music, conguero and bandleader Mongo Santamaria melded styles to arrive at an infectious fusion of hot rhythms with the improvisational energy of jazz. Although his series of albums in the '50s for Fantasy and the early '60s for Riverside established his integrity as a major artist, it would ...
Bobby Timmons: Little Barefoot Soul
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although best known for a string of popular and attractive funk numbers in the tradition of “Dat Dere,” pianist and composer Bobby Timmons was in fact a well rounded musician who could speak a varied language as evidenced by his recorded appearances with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his own series of solo albums. Inexplicably, it ...
Dannie Richmond: 'In' Jazz For the Culture Set
by C. Andrew Hovan
As anyone who collects jazz records will very likely tell you, the rare ones are typically hard earned and usually accompanied by a story or two. Such is the case with the uncommon and definitely curious solo album that drummer Dannie Richmond cut for Impulse back in 1965. With shades of Any Warhol to be had ...
Eddie Palmieri: Lucumi, Macumba, Voodoo
by C. Andrew Hovan
With the dog days of summer upon us, it seemed like a good idea to go just a bit left of center for this month’s feature. Keeping the temperatures in the caliente zone (that means keeping things hot, if you’re a gringo), we visit an obscure gem from Latin music sensation Eddie Palmieri. On the scene ...
Bob Brookmeyer: 7 x Wilder
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although he never really received much of the recognition due to him at the time, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer developed a distinctive catalog in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s that asserted the lighter strains of West Coast ‘cool’, but below the surface burned with a hale and hearty flame that owed just as much to ...
Lou Donaldson: Say It Loud!
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although it was fun while it lasted, it seems that we might have seen the end of that whole acid jazz movement. At its height, labels were searching fast and furiously for lost trinkets of soul. Fantasy launched its Legends of Acid Jazz series and Blue Note had its Rare Groove series. At the ...
Schifrin/Brookmeyer-Samba Para Dos
by C. Andrew Hovan
Of course, when it comes to bossa nova strains everyone is familiar with the timeless sound of Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, not to mention the critics’ contentions that after a few jazzy bossa records came out the rest of the lot were simply a retread of familiar territory. Close examination however shoots this myth right ...
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