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Billy Strayhorn: Piano Passion
by Andrew Velez
During their nearly three decades of working together, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington created a legacy of music for the ages. This set offers a rare opportunity to hear Strayhorn the composer playing many of his own songs, as well as some he wrote with Ellington and others. Their partnership began in 1939 and ended only ...
Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver
by Jeff Stockton
Last year the Yo Miles! collective released Sky Garden (Cuneiform), a two-disc set that surveyed ("covered" trivializes its accomplishment) Miles Davis' brand of funky '70s jazz fusion. At over two and a half hours, it was a massive slab of music. Upriver is also a massive slab. And once again it begs the question, “Does the ...
Pyeng Threadgill: Of The Air
by Francis Lo Kee
Of the Air, an album of original music that cuts a broad stylistic swath, is focused and honest, traveling through various contexts organically. There are several reasons for the honest coherence of this music. The CD is recorded in analog with a core group of musicians, a working band rather than a collection of heavy-hitters or ...
Tony Bennett: The Complete Improv Recordings
by Andrew Rowan
Once upon a time the line between jazz singing and jazz-tinged popular singing was blurred. Singers like Mabel Mercer, Sylvia Syms and Bobby Short roamed the borders between jazz, pop and cabaret, and the world was better for it. On the jazz side, singers like Billie Holiday, Joe Williams, Carmen McRae and Shirley Horn looked across ...
February 2006
by AAJ Staff
With the albums Lay Up and Bigmouth (both on Fresh Sound), bassist Chris Lightcap has articulated a powerful two-tenor concept with the aid of Tony Malaby, Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver. In recent months he's added pianist Craig Taborn to this volatile mix. At Cornelia Street Café (Jan. 6th), the group did its spacious funky ...
John Zorn / Dave Douglas: The Stone, Issue One
by Brian P. Lonergan
One of the more striking aspects of the playing on The Stone, Issue One, especially the interplay between altoist John Zorn and trumpeter Dave Douglas, is the sense of immediacy and transparency about the music. It's as if you have a clear window into the improvisatory act, witnessing pure, unpremeditated creation as it happens for the ...
Bireli Lagrene Gipsy Project: Move
by Andrew Velez
Listening to Bireli Lagrène's renditions of “Melodie au Crepuscule and “Hungaria instantly recalls his deeply bonded connection with the music, the style, and the sound of guitar legend Django Reinhardt. As inevitable as the Django connection seems to be, there is nothing shallow or merely imitative about Lagrène's playing. As this latest set attests, he's a ...
Carol Sudhalter: Shades of Carol
by Andrew Velez
This beautifully orchestrated set showcases Carol Sudhalter, who plays saxophones and flute, in a compilation of four sessions with different musical groupings. It gets off to a jumping, upbeat start with Cedar Walton's “Firm Roots, immediately showing off her roots firmly in happy, mainstream swing, Andrea Torozzi's piano providing exhilarating company for the warm tenor sax. ...
Tony Malaby / Angelica Sanchez / Tom Rainey: Alive in Brooklyn, Vol. 2
by Francis Lo Kee
Of the many bands that concentrate on so-called free improvisation, this trio may be the best. Many might be called avant-garde (or energy music, or any number of other terms) and there are a few people from more traditional backgrounds who dabble in free improvisation--or whatever else you want to call it--but this group's skill and ...
Dred Scott Trio: Dred Scott Trio with Kenny Brooks
by Terrell Kent Holmes
On first glance, the most striking thing about this disc is the leader's historically significant name, related to a paradigm of injustice that still resonates through the continuum of racism and social reform. But the issue of real name or stage name is quickly made irrelevant by the group's shimmering talent. Another striking thing about the ...
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