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Charles Earland: Black Talk!
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
One of the all-time classic soul-jazz records gets its turn at remastering by Rudy van Gelder, the original engineer of the 1969 session. Charles Earland had a strong affinity for the organ, though he didn't start on the instrument. He began his career as a saxophonist, playing in groups with organists like Jimmy ...
Steve Swallow with Robert Creeley: So There
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Steve Swallow with Robert CreeleySo ThereXtraWatt/ECM2006 Bassist Steve Swallow has been meditating on the poetry of the late Robert Creeley (1926-2005) for a long time. In 1980, Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn released an album of song settings of Creeley's poems with vocalist Sheila Jordan ...
Cedric Caillaud Trio: June 26
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Jean-Michel Reisser, in his thoughtful liner notes to bassist Cédric Caillaud's trio début, argues that French jazz has excelled in producing top-flight bassists. The late Pierre Michelot, a veteran of Miles Davis's L'ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Fontana, 1957), would be the granddaddy of that confrérie. Reisser reminds us of others: Patrice Caratini, Henri Texier, and Pierre Boussaguet, ...
David Murray Trio: 3D Family
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
I think of David Murray's long career in two phases: before and after Ming (Black Saint, 1980), the breakthrough album that signalled a substantial jump in maturity as well as a move toward jazz's musical center. But such a division betrays my age. From the distance of nearly thirty years, it's obvious that much of the ...
Nachito Herrera: Live at the Dakota 2
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
This 2003 date by pianist Nachito Herrera, a veteran of both the Cubanismo group and an idiosyncratic migration from Havana to Minneapolis, is his second live record from the Dakota, located in his adopted hometown. This time around, the large-group format of the first live disc gives way to a smaller ensemble. Herrera's group masters the ...
Andy Biskin Quartet: Early American: The Melodies of Stephen Foster
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
In the October 2006 issue of Jazzman magazine, Vincent Bessières documents the explosion of jazz renditions of compositions by Björk, pointing to versions by artists like Geoff Keezer, Marcin Wasilewski, Greg Osby, Eric Legnini, Jason Moran, Larry Goldings and Dave Douglas. (If he'd waited another month or so, he could have included a lovely reading of ...
Florian Weber / Jeff Denson / Ziv Ravitz: Minsarah
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
It's nice to see a pianist also credited with kalimba, loops and rum bottle, as Florian Weber is on this disc. That sounds a little wilder than it is; this is really a piano trio date. Nevertheless, the slightly odd instrumentation on the margins is indicative of a fanciful energy that suffuses Minsarah, this disc from ...
Dan Wilson / Mark Huggett Project: Max Roach Park
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Too few musical groups call themselves “projects"; perhaps they fear unwarranted comparison with the Alan Parsons Project (you know, “I Am The Eye In The Sky"). As indeed they should. Some groups nevertheless really are projects, which is to say, not necessarily long-term relationships but rather short to medium-term agglomerations of talent, with ...
Sebastien Jarrousse / Olivier Robin Quintet: Tribulation
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Three-fifths of the quintet on this record--tenor and soprano saxophonist Jarrousse, drummer Robin and bassist Jean Daniel Botta--just wrapped up a month-long run as the on-stage jazz band in Emmanuel Dongala's theatrical tribute to John Coltrane, A Love Supreme. (The Tarmac de la Villette theater has just announced that it will reprise the play in February ...
Mark Egan: As We Speak
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Given Mark Egan's long and deep involvement with the commercial end of the music business (as evidenced by a long resume of session credits in the jazz and pop worlds), the personality of this record is perhaps surprising. As We Speak is essentially a blowing session, with no overdubs or big production numbers. Not that there's ...
