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Herb Alpert Triple Play from Shout! Factory
by Charlie B. Dahan
Shout! Factory has just released three excellent reissues of Herb Alpert and His Tijuana Brass Band. This record company truly understands what it takes to successfully re-release an album: remaster the sound without removing the original charm, add new insight (essays and in this case recollections from Alpert) and stay true to the original artwork. Instead ...
Zoho Music: Lower Westchester County's Biggest Secret
by C. Michael Bailey
Latin / Jazz with a New York Vibe is a very accurate description of the music released by the New York record label Zoho Music. Borne from the archives of Khaeon Records, formerly a premiere independent exponent of Latin jazz, Zoho Music was the brainchild of über-entrepreneur Jochen Becker. Some of the original Khaeon releases made ...
Blue Note Connoisseur: Andrew Hill, Larry Young, Horace Silver and more
by C. Andrew Hovan
When the first batch of Blue Note titles released under the new “Connoisseur" umbrella hit the stores in 1994, collectors were astounded by the news that the label would be undergoing a reissue campaign that would focus on the under appreciated gems that they had been looking to acquire for so long. In fact, this reviewer ...
Treader Series One
by Derek Taylor
Every so often outside provocateurs enter the insular organism of improvised music and shake things up. Several years ago the culprit was Spring Heel Jack. A shared moniker for the British duo of John Coxon and Ashley Wales, the 'band' began fostering collaborative connections with British and American improvisers through a series of projects on the ...
John Hollenbeck Steps Out
by AAJ Staff
John Hollenbeck is like a spider at the drum kit. For each tune he builds a web of sound with its own characteristic architecture, based on the connections he hears in the music. And his spider legs are long enough to move around the music with ease during improvisation: tightening up here, loosening there, redesigning where ...
Eric Clapton: Prototype of the Guitar Hero
by Doug Collette
Eric Clapton Disraeli Gears (with Cream) 461 Ocean Blvd. Layla (with Derek & The Dominos) Universal Music Enterprises 2004 With the reformation of Cream looming for later this year, it's well to ponder how Eric Clapton became the archetypal guitar hero of our times. A series ...
Naxos Classical II: Continuing To Forge Ahead With The Familiar And Not
by C. Michael Bailey
Naxos Records has completely redefining the Classical Music marketing model in a stepwise fashion. The label has done this, first by using very fine, yet unknown artists to perform the standard and not so standard repertoire and selling the results for a budget price. The next step was fleshing out the not-so-standard repertoire and specializing in ...
2005 Grammy Award Round-Up
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz, and all music, once again had a good year at the Grammy Awards with the late Ray Charles weighing in several awards. Many of the recordings that won Awards at this year's ceremonies were featured in All About Jazz. Here is a smattering of those features: Contemporary Jazz Album Unspeakable
Love Songs: Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne & Nina Simone
by Andrew Rowan
Many jazz purists shy away from collections, opting for the artists' original CDs. But collections have their purpose. My first vocal jazz recording was on Columbia Records: Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah. It led to my lifelong affection for jazz singers. These Love Songs collections present three of the most distinctive American singers of ...
Branford Marsalis: Eternal & The Steep Anthology
by Russ Musto
Taken together these two CDs chronicle Branford Marsalis' 20-year recording career as a leader, documenting his ascent as one of the most recognized artists of his generation. There is much excellent music on both discs, but because they are so fundamentally different in temperament it is very likely that many fans who are totally enthralled with ...
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