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Article: Reassessing

John Coltrane: Afro Blue Impressions

by C. Michael Bailey
August 29, 2013

John ColtraneAfro Blue ImpressionsOJC1963/2013 When considering the panoply of music living beneath the banner of Concord Music Group, there should be no problem understanding the company's reissue policy, which has been curious. Any wrinkles in such logic smooth out when anniversaries are celebrated. Concord recently acknowledged what ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Dreambox Media: The Philadelphia Jazz Label

by Mike Oppenheim
August 28, 2013

Any fan of the great American music that is jazz is surely aware that the art form's history depended on the convergence of geography, individual talents, and inspiration. Cities such as New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago, and New York are synonymous with particular styles of jazz. One often overlooked city is Philadelphia, the birthplace and/or home ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Chick Corea: The Vigil

by John Kelman
August 28, 2013

While he's never come close to falling out of the spotlight, there's little denying Chick Corea's two Return to Forever reunion tours and resultant live recordings of the past half decade have been two of the keyboard star's most eagerly anticipated events, considerably raising both his visibility and viability. That The Vigil--the name of both his ...

News: Recording

Concord/Pablo jazz reissues include Ellington, Gillespie/Pass, Tatum, Sims, Peterson/Grappelli

August 28, 2013

Concord Music Group will release five new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on September 17, 2013. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, bonus tracks (some previously unreleased), and new liner notes to provide historical context to the originally released material, the series celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records, the prolific Beverly ...

Article: Book Excerpts

Beyond A Love Supreme

by Tony Whyton
August 26, 2013

The following is an excerpt from “Composition/Improvisation" chapter of Beyond A Love Supreme by Tony Whyton (Oxford Univ. Press, 2013). Composition/Improvisation A good example of the way in which binaries shift according to context can be seen when A Love Supreme is described either as a composition or an improvisation. Conventionally, ...

News: Event

Jazz "Musician's Artist" 100th Birthday Commemorated With New Fine Art Collection

August 26, 2013

The centennial birth year of acclaimed modernist jazz illustrator David Stone Martin marked by release of 100 limited edition prints. In the world of jazz there’s one artist collected the world over who’s never played a note of music yet left an indelible mark on jazz culture and modern art & design. David Stone Martin (1913-1992) ...

Article: Book Review

Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane And The Legacy Of An Album

by Ian Patterson
August 25, 2013

Beyond A Love Supreme:John Coltrane And The Legacy of An Album Tony Whyton Pages: 176 ISBN: 978-0-19-973323-1 Oxford University Press 2013 Few jazz icons have cast such a long shadow as saxophonist John Coltrane. Since his death at the age of 40 in 1967, ...

Article: Live Review

Clifford Brown-Max Roach Project at the Piedmont Piano Company

by Harry S. Pariser
August 25, 2013

Clifford Brown-Max Roach ProjectPiedmont Piano CompanyOakland, CAAugust 10, 2013“[Clifford Brown's] technique was, for him, to use the facility and bring up the quality of a trumpet player in relation to having his trumpet expressed as a voice. He not only had the technique, he had the love. The sound he would ...

News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Bing and Trane

August 25, 2013

I don’t know whether “Love Thy Neighbor” is the most unlikely song John Coltrane ever recorded, but his 1958 version is one of the most delightful. Mack Gordon and Harry Revel wrote it for the 1934 movie We’re Not Dressing, a classic of the shipwreck survivor genre. Bing Crosby sang it beautifully in a contrived sequence ...

Article: Reassessing

Cannonball Adderley & Milt Jackson: Things Are Getting Better

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2013

Cannonball Adderley & Milt JacksonThings Are Getting BetterOJC1959/2013 Alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley's 1959 Things Are Getting Better joins guitarist Wes Montgomery's So Much Guitar!, trumpeter Chet Baker's Chet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner & Loewe (OJC/Riverside, 1959/2013) and Gerry Mulligan's Mulligan Meets Monk (OJC/Riverside, 1957/2013) in ...