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A Celebration of Sheila Jordan
by Andrew Rowan
In his collection of essays Shadow and Act, novelist Ralph Ellison writes about certain singers, female singers, who have “an uncanny ability to provoke our love. He continues, “Their simplest songs sing in our hearts like the remembered voices of old dear friends. Sheila Jordan is such a singer. The ability to sing ...
Joel Harrison: Harrison on Harrison: Jazz Explorations of George Harrison
by Jeff Stockton
You have every right to be suspicious of anything that claims to interpret the music of a Beatle. Like symphonic Stones, extra-genre covers of the Beatles are most often a mixture of reverence and awkwardness. I've choked down enough Breakfasts with the Beatles to last a lifetime. But on Harrison on Harrison, guitarist Joel Harrison (no ...
Taylor Ho Bynum: Other Stories (Three Suites)
by Kurt Gottschalk
For a young musician, Taylor Ho Bynum has had an impressive career. He's appeared on as many albums as he is years old--that being thirty--and has worked with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, and Anthony Davis. He studied under and toured with Anthony Braxton, and the pair released a strong recording, Duets (Wesleyan) 2002. He's also performed ...
Kerry Politzer Quartet: Labyrinth
by Ken Franckling
Over the past few years, New England Conservatory graduate Kerry Politzer has emerged as one of the more interesting younger composers on the New York jazz scene. She leads a modern jazz trio and a Brazilian repertoire quartet to showcase her compositions. Labyrinth is her third release since 1999 and it draws from the best of ...
Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way
by Florence Wetzel
Peter J. LevinsonTommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big WayDa Capo Press352 pagesISBN: 0306811111 Tommy Dorsey is certainly one of jazz' most picturesque characters, and this new biography does a marvelous job of bringing the trombonist to life. Dorsey (1905-1956) was in ...
Roger Kellaway: I Was There; Remembering Bobby Darin
by Ernest Barteldes
For a number of years, pianist Roger Kellaway performed alongside Bobby Darin, and on two recent releases he pays tribute to the late frontman by playing instrumental renditions of some of the songs (plus a couple of originals) he played and/or arranged during his years with the singer, who passed away too soon in 1973 at ...
The Bad Plus: Suspicious Activity?
by Brian P. Lonergan
The Bad Plus is nothing if not confounding. The trio exalts in ambiguity and delights in dodging definition. Its music at once conveys affected irony and honest intelligence, melodrama and real poignancy. It resists interpretation. But one thing is for certain: the Bad Plus has created one of the most original and unmistakable sounds in contemporary ...
The Motion Trio: Pictures from the Street; Play Station
by Tom Greenland
"We are peasants somehow...we grew up in small towns, writes Janusz Wojtarowicz in the liner notes of Pictures from the Street, the Motion Trio's debut CD. Don't be fooled. These three squeeze-box Bachs are all conservatory trained virtuosos who are going boldly where no accordionists have gone before. Playing custom-built, extended range Piginis--"the Rolls-Royce of accordions, ...
Jon Madof's Rashanim: Masada Rock; Irving Fields: Bagels and Bongos
by Kurt Gottschalk
John Zorn's ever-growing Masada cottage industry continues with another reinterpretation of the songbook, this time a rock version in the hands of Jon Madof's excellent trio Rashanim. Last month marked the beginning of the second year of celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Masada project, but never mind. The discs have been as diverse as they ...
Loren Stillman: It Could Be Anything
by Jeff Stockton
In a year when the hottest straight-ahead jazz CD featuring an alto saxophonist was recorded sixty years ago, it's important to remember that we must live in our own times as well. And in jazz music, where players carry on into their '80s, Loren Stillman at 23 is like a ten year-old playing major league baseball. ...
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