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Roswell Rudd & Archie Shepp: Roswell Rudd & Black Gipsy
by AAJ Staff
A phenomenal outpouring of reissued '60s timepieces has come stateside. Available for the first time on CD are seminal recordings by Steve Lacy, Alan Shorter, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Frank Wright, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Roswell Rudd from Verve's collectable Free America catalogue. Roswell Rudd Roswell Rudd Verve/Free ...
Bull/Fonda Duo: Cup of Joe, No Bull
by Terrell Kent Holmes
On the heels of her release Love Spook, vocalist Katie Bull has hooked up again with bassist Joe Fonda on Cup of Joe, No Bull, a selection of standards and originals that the duo reduces to their bare essentials. Bull delivers a kind of relaxed, languid, yet lively kind of singing where the lyrics aren't sung ...
Richard Drexler: Se
by Andrew Rowan
Pianist/bassist/vocalist Richard Drexler has crafted an eclectic recording, full of fire and humor, saluting the music of Johannes Brahms reinvented through Latin American rhythms. Along the way he also tips his hat to American popular music. The imaginative Drexler uses the vallenato and cumbia (Columbia), tango (Argentina), bolero (Cuba), merengue, pasajes and gaitas (Venezuela), ...
David "Fathead" Newman: Keeper of the Flame
by Gary Firstenberg
Saxophonist David “Fathead" Newman is best known for his many years playing in Ray Charles' bands from 1954 to the mid '60s and again in the early '70s. He got his start in Dallas and acquired his trademark nickname at Lincoln High, when band director J.K. Miller called him “Fathead" after he bungled a note in ...
Eldar & Hiromi: Eldar & Brain
by Brian P. Lonergan
Eldar Eldar Sony Classical 2005 One of the questions provoked by prodigies is whether their music has an emotional resonance informed by life experience. In other words, does the prodigy have something to say yet? Elsewhere in the jazz press, Kyrgyzstan native Eldar Djangirov has already been ...
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Underneath a Brooklyn Moon
by Mark F. Turner
Whether you call the locale uptown or downtown, pianist JC Hopkins and his “biggish band play it in fine New York City style on their debut, evoking the sounds of both smoky lounges and larger halls of yesteryear. The California-born Hopkins moved to New York and began this heartfelt project, which combines a larger jazz ensemble ...
Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City 1945
by Norman Weinstein
This is absolutely a find, a well-recorded (for 1945) live concert of Bird and Diz and Max Roach in peak form. The numbers were quite familiar to these artists at the time ("A Night in Tunisia," “Salt Peanuts," “Groovin' High"), but these are slashingly brilliant versions to be treasured.Gillespie sounds unusually florid and assured, ...
Enrico Rava: La Dolce Vita & Full of Life
by C. Michael Bailey
The jazz stylings of Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava, much like that of his Polish counterpart Tomasz Stanko, are a synthesis 1950s Miles Davis and Chet Baker transformed through the fifty years that have elapsed since the release of the first sides which would become Birth of the Cool and the Gerry Mulligan pianoless quartets ...
Bob Rodriguez: Corridor
by John Kelman
It's a mystery why some artists reach positions of prominence and others don't. Sometimes it's more about being in the right place at the right time than specific musical criteria like aptitude, creativity, and a distinctive personal approach. Since moving to New York in '88, pianist Bob Rodriguez has managed to create a niche through performing, ...
Arturo O'Farrill: Live in Brooklyn
by Norman Weinstein
This recording may come as a surprise for those who identify pianist Arturo O'Farrill primarily as the heir to the throne of his father Chico O'Farrill, the esteemed Latin jazz big band leader and composer. While he has honored his father's legacy with his leadership of the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Orchestra, the Arturo O'Farrill this remarkable ...
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