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Duke Ellington: Symphony of the Body and Soul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A study in sepia It was the package that arrived, which prompted me to open an album of memories in the first place. Looking at the photograph, I recall some--not all--of the many details of the evening it was taken. The boy in the photograph is I, and I am in a black mood. ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Joe's Blues
Label: Lone Hill Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Joe's Blues; Joe's Blues; I'll Walk Alone; Harmony In Harlem; Warm Valley; Wild Bill Blues; Somebody Loves Me; Solitude; Clementine; Wings & Things; Wings And Things; Spotted Dog; Casanova; Dow De Dow Dow Dow; Peg O' My Heart; The Nearness Of You; Imbo; Take The "A" Train;
Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...
Bobby Watson
by AAJ Staff
In 1977, quite a few eyebrows were raised when drummer Art Blakey, the nurturer of many jazz greats, started touting the country kid in overalls with the alto saxophone as his latest great discovery. Eyebrows remained up in amazement as Bobby Watson let loose with a Parkeresque run of notes. Watson's sweet, full tone evokes both ...
Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...
The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-1961
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 95 performances, including 30 previously unissued tracks
Antoine Silverman
by Joel Roberts
Antoine Silverman's singular gifts as a musician, as well as his choice of the violin as his musical voice, lend his work both a freshness and a familiarity that reaches well beyond a traditional jazz audience. “The violin is such an unusual instrument for jazz that it almost inherently lends itself to new approaches ...
Johnny Hodges: The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-1961
by C. Andrew Hovan
You know, things just ain’t what they used to be. There was a time when the average blue-collar worker could stay with a job 30 or 40 years without so much as a care. The same held true for many musicians who happened to be caught in the orbit of Duke Ellington’s mercurial jazz institution. For ...
