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Albert Ayler: Knocking On The Door of Astral Jazz
by Chris May
Despite everything life threw at saxophonist Albert Ayler--critical incomprehension, paucity of performing opportunities, probable bi-polarity--his music shone with light. At the time of his passing, aged 34, drowned in New York's East River, he was, said some of his friends, in the depths of depression (leading to rumors of suicide, or, more fancifully, of murder). But ...
Bob Seger: Live Bullet and Nine Tonight Reissues
by Doug Collette
After years as a regionally-based cult figure from Detroit, Bob Seger and his music didn't change all that dramatically, at least on the surface, when Night Moves (Capitol, 1975) launched him into the mainstream popularity he maintains to this day. He merely altered the emphasis he placed on ballads versus up-tempo material. That he ...
Lonnie Smith and Johnny Hammond: Organ Explorers Of The Kudu Kind
by Dan Bilawsky
When the 40th Anniversary celebration of Creed Taylor's CTI Records began, the focus fell on the label's flagship artists and classic albums, but the final wave of releases shines a light on some neglected works that are only now seeing their first U.S. release on CD. The four CDs that bring this celebration to an end--which ...
CTI Celebrates Kudu Legacy: Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Hank Crawford, Esther Phillips
by Chris May
CTI Masterworks' 40th anniversary reissue program has, until now, focused on producer Creed Taylor's primary label. Two multi-disc sets and 24 single discs have made available on CD cherished CTI LPs by artists such as trumpeters Chet Baker and Freddie Hubbard, saxophonists Paul Desmond and Stanley Turrentine, guitarists George Benson and Kenny Burrell, vibraphonist Milt Jackson ...
Alice Coltrane: The Flowering of Astral Jazz
by Chris May
The launch of Impulse! Records' 2-on-1 reissue series--which packages two original LPs on one CD--includes six key albums from the glorious first flowering of the astral jazz forged by pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders on Impulse! towards the end of the 1960s.The style emerged following saxophonist John Coltrane's passing in ...
Tre sei corde per Dodicilune
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nella ricca offerta discografica dell'etichetta pugliese Dodicilune, che da sempre si distingue per una produzione molto curata e attenta sotto ogni aspetto, i chitarristi sono stati una presenza ricca e ben nutrita, con una proposta molto varia sia nei generi che nelle formazioni, e con una certa presenza dello strumento classico/acustico. Analizziamo tre delle pubblicazioni più ...
Ehran Elisha launches new Israeli label
by Eyal Hareuveni
Two releases by New York-based drummer Ehran Elisha are the first ones from a new Israeli creative label, OutNow Recordings, run by three musicians--saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer and guitarists Yair Yona and Ido Bukelman--with a noble mission: “search within yourself for the sound you never stop hearing." These albums present the ever creative Elisha in two different ...
Rory Gallagher: Against The Grain and Calling Card Reissues
by Doug Collette
Guitarist Rory Gallagher produced (literally in most cases) a string of remarkably consistent studio albums during the course of a career that stretched from the early 1970s through to the 1990s. Eagle Records has reissued them all on compact disc and, though it's not wholly clear if the titles have been remastered again, and the pre-existing ...
Joe McPhee: A Band Apart
by Clifford Allen
You might expect a musician who has been a steady figure on the creative improvising scene for nearly 45 years to have some variance in their discography and a diverse range of projects and band concepts. Reedman (and sometime pocket trumpeter) Joe McPhee's vast number of recordings and ensembles speak to that impulse, but the curious ...
Derek Bailey: Concert in Milwaukee and Scrutables
by John Eyles
Remarkably, over five years after his death on Christmas Day 2005, these two recordings by guitarist Derek Bailey--one dating from 1983, the other from 2000--have never before been properly released. In a 2001 interview, Bailey spoke in typically jocular fashion about the number of neglected tapes that were about in his house in Hackney, London. Of ...
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