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Eri Yamamoto: Cobalt Blue
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
When the Bad Plus covered Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit" a few years back, it sounded (a little) like a long-lost track from John Coltrane's rhythm section; thus did the Love Supreme virus erupt in the least likely of contexts. Pianist Eri Yamamoto's Cobalt Blue, a trio performance with bassist David Ambrosio and ...
Bill Coleman: The Complete Philips Recordings
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Trumpeter Bill Coleman (1904-81) played in a host of orchestras (led by Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Luis Russell and Don Redman) in the 1930s, with the same vibrato and finesse as his contemporary, Buck Clayton, but not quite the same bravura and vocabulary. To make an analogy using trumpeters from another jazz era, Coleman is to ...
Russ Lossing: All Things Arise
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Stuart Broomer's ponderous liner notes to Russ Lossing's latest release correctly point out that the track sequencing suggests a “side one" and “side two," as would an old vinyl album ("the LP of tradition," as Broomer says). The first side is given over to a suite of freely improvised music with echoes (probably unwitting) of various ...
Tuxedomoon: Bardo Hotel Soundtrack
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Tuxedomoon emerged from an eccentric byway of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1970s. At the time, the group's music was a prescient mix of human and machine-made sounds, with a propulsive beat and a savory dash of anomie. In the decades since, the band's membership has fluctuated wildly, and the ...
Ignacio Berroa: Codes
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
For some insight into the codes to which the title of drummer Ignacio Berroa's debut album refers, compare his version of the António Carlos Jobim classic “Inútil Paisagem with the excellent piano trio version by Aaron Goldberg on Worlds (Sunnyside, 2006). Goldberg takes it very slow and successfully taps into the number's rarefied, slightly decadent Brazilian ...
Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
A good 80% of the music reviewed at All About Jazz is “instrumental": that is, it has no singing or human voices. It's almost superfluous to say so, of course: have you ever read a review that said “'St. Thomas,' like all the other cuts on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, is an instrumental offering ? When ...
Aaron Goldberg: Worlds
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Man, am I glad that pianist Aaron Goldberg and I never tried to apply for the same job. I'm not a musician, but you should see this guy's CV. While he was double-majoring at Harvard in history and science plus mind, brain and behavior, he was working with Betty Carter, gigging weekends in Boston and winning ...
Pete McCann: Most Folks
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Pete McCann is a versatile guitarist with a daunting list of sideman credits: Kenny Wheeler, Maria Schneider, Dave Liebman, Kenny Garrett and many others. Most Folks is his third date as leader. As an artistic statement, it's organized around the notion of sketches, portraits and tributes to “folks" whose lives have intersected with McCann's.
Michy Mano: The Cool Side of the Pillow
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Cool Side of the Pillow brings together singer and sentir player Michy Mano and Oslo DJ Bugge Wesseltoft to create a work of musical fusion that is accomplished, hip, witty, but ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Those parts--Moroccan popular styles and Norwegian electronica--do not mix as readily as you might suppose. Start ...
Deidre Rodman / Steve Swallow: Twin Falls
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Deidre Rodman's third release on Sunnyside is accompanied by a poetic statement of purpose: “Growing up in Idaho, she begins, “the mountains became a part of my consciousness. We are led to expect a backward-looking meditation on natural beauty. A backward-looking meditation is what we get, but its reference points are socio-cultural, not geological. To start, ...
