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Jaleel Shaw: Perspective
by Joel Roberts
Jaleel Shaw certainly knows how to make an entrance. The first cut on the alto saxophonist's first outing as a leader has already earned the Philadelphia native an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. That tune, “Heavyweight Champion, an inspired tribute to one of his heroes, John Coltrane, is just one of many treats on this impressive ...
Mulgrew Miller: Live At Yoshi's Volume Two
by Joel Roberts
Mulgrew Miller is one of the unsung heroes of jazz. The veteran pianist, who turns fifty this month, has played in the bands of major figures like Betty Carter, Woody Shaw, Art Blakey, and Tony Williams and has more than four hundred recording credits to his name. Though respected as a dependable, first-call sideman, he's only ...
Hank Jones and the Great Jazz Trio
by Joel Roberts
Hank Jones For My Father Justin Time 2005 Hank Jones, who celebrates his 87th birthday this month, is in the midst of one of the most productive periods of his long, distinguished career. Following last year's critically acclaimed outing with the Great Jazz Trio (his final session with ...
Jim Hall: Magic Meeting
by Joel Roberts
Jim Hall has long been an island of calm in a sea of overheated jazz guitarists. On countless solo efforts and memorable collaborations with Bill Evans, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, and many others, Hall's subtlety and intelligence have elevated him above the crowd on an instrument where speed and pointless virtuosity unfortunately rule. ...
A Love Supreme and La Espada de la Noche
by Joel Roberts
For years, jazz artists have shied away from A Love Supreme, treating it as somehow too iconic, too hallowed or at least too uniquely tied to its composer to cover. Who would dare try to improve on the perfection the Coltrane quartet achieved on their legendary 1964 Impulse! recording? Wynton Marsalis, that's who. And it's a ...
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
by Joel Roberts
Gary Giddins Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Oxford University Press ISBN: 0-19-515607-2 2004 Gary Giddins' “Weather Bird column in the Village Voice was required reading for New York jazz buffs for years. Equal parts critic, booster and history teacher, as well as a ...
Billie Holiday: The Sensitive & 1937-1952
by Joel Roberts
A search on Amazon reveals an absurd total of 498 Billie Holiday titles, including imports and out-of- print albums. That begs the question, “Do we really need another Holiday compilation? Two releases from Europe try to provide an affirmative answer. Billie Holiday 1937-1952 Nocturne The first collection, a two-disc set from the ...
Adam Makowicz and Leszek Mozdzer: Makowicz vs. Mozdzer at Carnegie Hall
by Joel Roberts
Adam Makowicz has such phenomenal technique at the keyboard that it sometimes sounds as if he's playing with four hands. On his latest album there really are four hands at work, though two of them belong to fellow Polish piano sensation Leszek Mozdzer. Their solo and duet excursions on Chopin and popular standards, recorded live at ...
Sidney Bechet: Sidney Bechet, 1938-1952
by Joel Roberts
New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet was all the rage in Paris in the late '40s and early '50s, when he recorded the sides included on disc one of this new two-CD package. After some lean years in the US, when he temporarily dropped out of the music business to run a tailor shop in Harlem, ...
John Ellis: One Foot in the Swamp
by Joel Roberts
If, as the title of his new album suggests, saxophonist John Ellis has one foot in the swamp--meaning the Southern-fried funk of New Orleans, where he spent his formative musical years and recorded his new disc--his other foot is firmly planted in the more adventurous modern jazz scene of his current base here in New York. ...
