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Caltech Jazz Bands: The Variety Pack
by Edward Blanco
The California Institute of Technology's Caltech Jazz Bands present their third album of largely big band music, offering selected charts by musicians and composers identified with the music from one end of the jazz spectrum to the other. The Variety Pack lives up to its title, with fourteen songs touching upon a variety of jazz styles ...
John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West Of State Street / East Of Harlem
by Nic Jones
Accolades from the likes of Buddy De Franco and Louie Bellson might lend this band additional legitimacy as keeper of the flame, but its sheer love for the music, as manifested in countless ways here, is more than sufficient in itself. In times like these it takes love as much as anything else to put music ...
Sphinx and Preacher: James Carter and the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir
by Eric Benson
Odean Pope Saxophone Choir, featuring James Carter Blue Note New York, New York March 15, 2009 For the first thirty minutes of its set on Sunday night, the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir displayed its signature blend of precision and warmth, eight saxophones—nine when Pope stopped conducting and took up ...
Brian Patneaude: Riverview
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Tenor saxophone players have a dilemma that may be seemingly unique to that instrument: a dilemma of sound. While every artist will strive for their unique, personal voice, the tenor saxophonist has to be haunted by the “you-know-it's-them" sounds of greats such as Lester Young, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, and Michael Brecker. ...
Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout
by Donald Elfman
When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...
Bill McHenry Quintet: Sonic Pressure
by Farrell Lowe
In the world of music, some live performances stand out with distinction. There are nights where the bandstand can be a magical place, with the musicians expressing an added dimension to their normal artistry. Those nights are special and are, with luck, captured in a recording like this one. Sonic Pressure was recorded live at the ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
Sonny Rollins: Still Seeking the Lost Chord
by R.J. DeLuke
The Saxophone Colossus. The greatest living improvising musician. A musical god. Sonny Rollins has been called all these things at one time or another by fans across the globe, as well as by those involved in the pursuit of music criticism and jazz history. There's no question he is the greatest remaining icon to come out ...
The Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940
By Lester Young
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Shoe Shine Boy (A); Evenin' (A); Boogie Woogie (A); Oh, Lady Be Good (A); I Ain't Got Nobody (B); Goin' To Chicago (B); Live and Love Tonight (B);
Love Me Or Leave Me (B); What Goes Up Must Come Down (C); Taxi War Dance (C); Don't Worry 'Bout Me (D); And The Angels Sing (E); If I Didn't Care (E);
Twelfth Street Rag (E); Miss Thing (Pt.1) (E); Miss Thing (Pt.2) (E); Shoe Shine Boy (A); What Goes Up Must Come Down (C); Taxi War Dance (C) (alt tk);
Don't Worry 'Bout Me (D). CD2: 1. Lonesome Miss Pretty (F); Bolero At The Savoy (F); Pound Cake (F); You Can Count On Me (G); Song Of The Islands (I);
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (I); Dickie's Dream (J); Lester Leaps In (J); The Apple Jump (K); I Left My Baby (K); Riff Interlude (K); You Can Count On Me (G);
Dickie's Dream (J); Dickie's Dream (J); Lester Leaps In (J); I Left My Baby (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K); Riff Interlude (K).
CD3: Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Hollywood Jump (L); I Never Knew (M); Tickle-Toe (M); Let's Make Hay While The Moon Shines (M);
Louisiana (M); Easy Does It (N); Let Me See (N); Blow Top (O); Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L);
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Ham 'N' Eggs (L); Hollywood Jump (L); Let's Make Hay While The Moon Shines (M); Louisiana (M);
Let Me See (N); Blow Top (O). CD4: Evenin'; The World Is Mad (Pt.1); The World Is Mad (Pt.2) (P); Ad Lib Blues (Q); Wholly Cats (Q); Charlie's Dream (Q);
I Never Knew (Q); Lester's Dream (Q); What's Your Number? (R); Five O'Clock Whistle; Broadway (S); China Boy (H); Exactly Like You (H); On The Sunny Side Of The Street (H);
Upright Organ Blues (H); Who ? (H); Jazz Me Blues (H); Exactly Like You (H); What's Your Number? (R); What's Your Number? (R); Five O'Clock Whistle (S);
Five O'Clock Whistle (S); Broadway (S).
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