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Art Blakey - Hard Bop (Mosaic Singles, 2008)
This was something of a forgotten album (perhaps because of the generic title?) recorded during drummer Art Blakey's brief tenure with Columbia Records. Cut with an interesting band including Bill Hardman on trumpet, Jackie McLean on alto saxophone, Sam Dockery on piano and Spanky De Brest on bass. But the album is aptly named as the ...
John Carter - Bobby Bradford Quartet - Seeking (Hatart 1969, 2001)
Clarinetist and saxophonist John Carter and trumpeter Bobby Bradford led an excellent free-bop band in the vein of Ornette Coleman's pianoless quartet during the late 60's and 70's. Much of this material has been released on a recent Mosaic Select but this review comes from a HatArt reissue of this early album I found in the ...
Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Nottwo, 2010)
Locksmith Isidore if bass clarinetist Jason Stein's trio with Jason Roebke on bass and Mike Pride on drums, playing a classy thoughtful blend of free jazz and more mainstream improvisation, music that would fit in well at a jazz club or art-house performance space. Stein has a strong woody tone that permeates the recording, while Roebke ...
Book Review: White Jazz by James Ellroy
The fourth and final installment in James Ellroy's epic L.A. Quartet is one of his bleakest titles (and that is really saying something) but overcomes this with a rollicking and jittery energy that never lets up. Police lieutenant Dave Klein is stuck between a rock and a hard place: he's murdered a suspect, one of many ...
Szilard Mezei - February Fadontes (No Business, 2010)
Melding folk music to free jazz in an interesting and intriguing manner, viola player Szilard is joined by Peter Bede on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Erno Hock on bass and Hunor G. Szabo and drums. This is a limited edition vinyl record that really deserves wider recognition especially among fans who enjoy their jazz expanded by ...
The Dave Liebman Group - Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)
Veteran saxophonist and flautist Dave Liebman is most well known for his interpretations of the music of John Coltrane and his former employer Miles Davis. This album covers the music of free jazz saxophone pioneer Ornette Coleman, and Liebman and his group with Vic Juris on guitar, Tony Marino on bass and Marko Marcinko on drums ...
Randy Weston - Mosaic Select 4 (Mosaic, 2004)
Pianist and composer Randy Weston is still going strong, with a new album and biographyin 2010. This collection is an interesting selection of early music enveloping trio, quartet and a large ensemble with vocalists. Disc one consists of the sextet and quintet albums Little Niles and Live at the Five Spot, showcasing Weston's Thelonious Monk influenced ...
Walter Smith III - Iii (Criss Cross, 2010)
Walter Smith III is a rock solid tenor saxophonist with a nice modern-mainstream conception of the music, making him a fine fit for the Dutch label Criss-Cross and their hard bop centered aesthetic. He is supported on this album by a nice cross section of hard-hitting talent: Jason Moran on piano, Joe Sanders on bass and ...
Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed, 2010)
The spirit of the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus looms large over these recordings, no small feat for a scrappy band of musicians trying to record large scale music in a difficult economic environment. The powerful and well integrated group consists of Lane on bass, Avram Fefer on alto saxophone, David Bindman and Matt Bauder ...
Various Artists - Andrew Vachss' Safe House (Relativity, 1998)
Author and attorney Andrew Vachss has spent years fighting the good fight against child abuse and neglect, both in the courtroom (representing only minors) and writing his famous Burke series of dark crime novels. Reading the books, you learn that Burke (and Vachss himself) are deep fans of the blues. This compilation CD, with all of ...
