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Leaves of Grass & Mystic Trumpeter
by Andrew Rowan
Fred Hersch Leaves of Grass Palmetto 2005 In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, the poet of democracy, sought to express the still-young nation's ideals. Fred Hersch has realized his dream to pay homage to the poet by crafting an intelligent and, often, moving account of carefully selected excerpts from Whitman's ...
Freddie Hubbard: Four From Freddie
by AAJ Staff
By Francis Lo Kee Freddie Hubbard has led a productive and interesting recording career that has gone through various phases, showing up on revolutionary records of the '60s (with Ornette, Dolphy and Coltrane) and some of the best hard bop, “keeper-of-the-flame sessions, too (as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers). Ready for Freddie ...
Patrick Brennan: Rapt Circle & The Drum is Honor Enough
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Altoist Patrick Brennan's latest two releases, under the ever-evolving and exploratory guise of Sonic Openings Under Pressure, aren't threaded the same way, even when weaving the same musical material as he does in Rapt Circle. The aforementioned documents live music from two different presentations in 2002. One of them included percussionist Juma Santos Ayantola, ...
John Butcher: Cavern with Nightlife, New Oakland Burr & 13 Friendly Numbers
by Kurt Gottschalk
British saxophonist John Butcher has become one of the preeminent voices in the world of veryquiet improv, having been a member of the supergroup Polwechsel and working with such artists as Rhodri Davies, Axel Dorner and Phil Minton. At the same time, he's pushed his horn into the role of feedback machine, close-miking it and turning ...
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 ...
Calvin Newborn: New Born & UpCity
by Jerry D'Souza
Calvin Newborn New Born Yellow Dog Records The name Newborn is synonymous with Memphis just as Presley or King or Hayes is. The Patriarch Phineas (Finas) had two sons, Phineas and Calvin. The first made the piano his instrument of choice, the second took to playing the guitar. In sum they were ...
Verve's Free America Series, Part 1-3
by Derek Taylor
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 France was a hotbed of free jazz activity during the late 1960s and early 1970s. A fraternity of expatriate American musicians solidified their reputations in the music through visits both abbreviated and protracted to the continent. One, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, would extend his stay for the better ...
Joe McPhee: The Sugar Hill Suite & Rules of Engagement, Vol. 2
by Kurt Gottschalk
Trio-X is one of the longest-standing and strongest vehicles for one of the best free-thinking saxophonists around today. Joe McPhee has countless associations, but consistently is at his most relaxed and exploratory with bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay Rosen. With only five releases in the decade they've played together, the group has afforded itself the ...
Tubby Hayes & the Rendell/Carr Quintet: Live In London
by A. Henkin
With Harkit's Live in London series, it can be heard what musicians like Sonny Rollins to Stan Getz sounded like on tours to Europe, where presumably they made much of their money and played with an abandon unfit for American audiences. The period recordings were done by British jazzer Les Tomkins. Two entries into the series ...
Monty Alexander: In Tokyo, Live at Iridium and Steaming Hot
by AAJ Staff
The task of listening to all three of these CDs led by the great pianist Monty Alexander (actually four, Steaming Hot being a double disc) is both pleasurable and daunting. There's a “something for everyone type of quality: great for a person that you would like to interest in jazz because of their “good times feel; ...
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