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Sonny Stitt: Just the Way It Was: "Live" at the Left Bank
by Matthew S. Robinson
To inaugurate his latest musical milestone, the starting of Label M, one of Jazz’s most underrated production legends, Joel Dorn, has taken a set of his musical counterpart, the electrifying saxophonist Sonny Stitt, from the vaults of the Left Bank Jazz Society and puts it back on vinyl (er... plastic) to sustain the Society’s mission of ...
Paul Desmond: Lemme Tell Ya 'Bout Desmond: the Music of Paul Desmond
by C. Michael Bailey
An alto saxophone tone as dry and bright as a martini with the sun shining through it. I have been listening to this disc over and over and over. My knowledge of Desmond is admitted limited. Sure he penned “Take Five" and was a mainstay with Brubeck in the '50s and '60s. And sure he has ...
Hubert Laws: Wild Flowers
by Craig Jolley
Wild Flower is the best flute record I know of. Hubert Laws plays flawlessly and sensitively as usual, but the record really belongs to John Murtaugh. Murtaugh came up as a Los Angeles tenorist in the 1950's but made his reputation as a writer. The program was thoughtfully considered. Each composition has its own identity and ...
Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: Collaboration
by AAJ Staff
In the CD jacket notes, Label M founder Joel Dorn informally, as is his wont, tells the buyers of Collaboration that it is one of his two favorite Modern Jazz Quartet recordings. The other is European Concert. Now, both albums have been re-released, and Dorn's perseverance and dedication to the highest level of jazz ...
Illinois Jacquet and His Big Band: Jacquet's Got It
by C. Michael Bailey
Illinois Jacquet has a rocking good time. Jean Baptiste Illinois Jacquet is one of the last of the big tenors. LabelM's re-release of Jacquet's big band Atlantic Recording Jacquet's Got It is more than welcome. The majority of big band music being made today is experimental and progressive. While the UMO Jazz Orchestra and Pierre Dorge ...
Ray Bryant: North Of The Border
by AAJ Staff
If only the rest of us could find overlooked valuables tucked away in closets and cabinets as efficiently and nonchalantly as can Ray Bryant. But then, the rest of us don't have Ray Bryant's talent, his worldwide performing schedule or his modesty. Such quiet modesty led Bryant to tuck away the performance tapes that recording engineers ...
Ray Bryant: North of the Border
by C. Michael Bailey
New Jazz Chamber Music from None Other than Ray Bryant. A new myth is carefully woven in the fabric of producer Joel Dorn's career. This one involves a trash sack of cassette tapes collected by pianist Ray Bryant's sound engineer of live Bryant performances over the past number of years. Out of this entire trash sack, ...
Ray Bryant: Somewhere In France
by Jim Santella
Recorded in 1993 before a live audience somewhere in France, this session was sitting around in Ray Bryant's home on a cassette tape that the sound man had handed him after the performance. The artist hadn't had time to listen to it; he hadn't even realized he was being recorded until the performance was over. The ...
Gary Burton & St: Paris Encounter
by AAJ Staff
Legend has it--and Gary Burton has confirmed it--that by the late 1960's, Stéphane Grappelli was tiring of being treated like a relic of the Quintette du Hot Club de Paris. He was purported to become staid and unadventurous, even as he continued to grow and seek new challenges. Those challenges, however, didn't present themselves, and Grappelli ...
Freddie Hubbard: Fastball
by C. Michael Bailey
More Live at the Left Bank from the Hard Bop Trumpeting Dream, Freddie Hubbard. Recorded April 23, 1967, this Freddie Hubbard recital offers an extended look at the trumpet wunderkind during a recording transitional period. Hubbard was just following his recording for Blue Note (with The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vols. ...
