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Buddy Rich: Live in Miami with Flip Phillips
by Nic Jones
Rich's work was arguably one dimensional and these two live dates, captured for the ages from 1954 and 1957, set out a case in favor of that argument as persuasive as any. Rich, as was his vocation, is all over his drums on everything here, his extrovert nature in harness to a musical sensibility seemingly too ...
Brew Moore: The Kerouac Connection
by Nic Jones
Brew Moore The Kerouac Connection Giant Steps 2007 Tenor saxophonist Brew Moore was one of the disciples of Lester Young whom Young himself referred to as “the greys." As a man who believed that anyone who didn't do it like Young was just plain wrong, Moore arguably hewed closer to ...
Soft Heap: Al Dente
by Nic Jones
With the exception of drummer Pip Pyle this is the group that recorded 'Rogue Element' (Ogun) in May of 1978. On that occasion the drummer was Dave Sheen and the group was known as Soft Head, which offers a clue as to how the name was arrived at, particularly in view of the presence of Soft ...
Margie Day: Dawn Of A New Day / Experience
by Nic Jones
Margie Day had already enjoyed a lengthy career prior to recording these two albums in the late 1960s, scoring top ten rhythm 'n' blues hits as the featured female vocalist with the Griffin Brothers band in 1951. In the intervening period of course, popular taste moved on apace, rendering her efforts here essentially as sides out ...
Subversive Sounds - Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
by Nic Jones
Subversive Sounds - Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans Charles Hersch Hardcover; 210 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32867-6 University of Chicago Press 2008 In avoiding any pre-planned model with which to simplify the subject of this book, Charles Hersch has produced something that's ...
Szilard Mezei Ensemble: Nad / Reed
by Nic Jones
Pointless arguments over where the geographical heart of the music lies these days are rendered only more so by music like that on Nad / Reed by the Szilard Mezei Ensemble. Coming as it does from Hungary, and with a burst of creativity, it's definitively human and thus not the product of any national--or indeed continental--sensibility. ...
Cy Touf / Sandy Mosse: Tickle Toe
by Nic Jones
These co-leaders had been stalwarts of the scene for decades by the time they cut these sides in Chicago in 1981. They worked that rich seam of post-bop music that conversely looked back to the music immediately prior to that significant shift. Here, they lay out their credentials in the company of a rhythm section that's ...
Bud Shank: The Original - The Pacific Jazz Years
by Nic Jones
> Bud Shank The Original - The Pacific Jazz YearsGiant Steps2008 Any debate that might once have raged over the hoary question of East Coast/West Coast dichotomy has hopefully died out by now. If the hope that the music prevails holds water, this is a vessel ...
A Power Stronger Than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music
by Nic Jones
A Power Stronger Than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music George E. Lewis Hardcover; 690 pages ISBN: 0226476952 University of Chicago Press 2007 There is arguably no-one better placed than trombonist and Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians' member George E. Lewis to ...
Steve Cohn: Iro Iro
by Nic Jones
Pianist Steve Cohn and his cohorts here avoid every cliché in the book in pursuit of music which even at the end of the program seems as elusive as it was at the beginning. This is no bad thing as it arguably sums up in essence the very nature of improvised music that seeks to avoid ...
