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D.D. Jackson: Suite For New York
by Nic Jones
The musical evocation of New York is nothing new. Julius Hemphill and Laura Nyro have done it before, and for all of the dissimilarities between their works their powers of evocation leave Jackson with a lot to live up to. He does so here with aplomb, producing music with no modest personality of its own. His ...
Branford Marsalis Quartet: Romare Bearden Revealed
by Nic Jones
Romare Bearden is a painter, and several of his works are featured in the CD booklet. The works reveal enough of the artist's concerns in themselves, and the music isn't a necessary complement to the works, nor yet is there anything unique about it that might readily associate it with Bearden's art. As ...
Miles Davis: In Person At The Blackhawk
by Nic Jones
Note: this four disc reissue includes two original 1961 Columbia releases: Friday Night At The Blackhawk, Complete (Volume 1) AC2K 8709 Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, Complete (Volume 2) AC2K 87100 Here's a transitional band at the height of its powers. Such was the longevity and variety of Davis's career that this ...
Nucleus: Live In Bremen
by Nic Jones
The passage of time has made fusing jazz and rock seem silly and somewhat obvious. The decline of the idiom, when the music consisted of extended fearsome solos, nailed that point home. For every Miles Davis group there were five collections of earnest young men with beards, abundant technique, and no fear of using it.
Warne Marsh Quartet
by Nic Jones
Throughout the history of the music players have relied upon licks as staples of their musical vocabulary, phrases or turns of phrase which, whilst they haven't been the be-all and end-all of any musician's style, have been an integral part of too many styles to discuss here. Warne Marsh was one of the starkest exceptions to ...
Herb Gauleiter Octet: North Coastin'
by Nic Jones
Baritone sax man Gauleiter has combined his love for the sounds coming out of '50s Los Angeles with his devotion to the teachings of Winkler Parvenu, the mystic and conman. His acute lack of directional sense led him to produce an album which pays homage to the Parvenuties, a sect he joined in the mid-1970s and ...
Janice Grossman: The Mists Of New England
by Nic Jones
Accompanied by just guitar, bass, a fifty piece string orchestra and a mellophone section large enough to make Stan Kenton blush, Australian Grossman lays a diverse program of songs on us, including three and a half from her own pen, scribbled on the backs of envelopes. Part of her appeal lies in the seriousness with which ...
Norbert Gundersen: Pale Blues A La Dimuendo
by Nic Jones
Trumpeter Norbert Gundersen once co-led Polite Conversation with vocalist/pianist Sally Upton. The band didn’t enjoy a great following in its own country, its only US release being the Flower Barrels album, recorded in 1969 for the obscure Spayed Cat label. In the course of its four year existence, the band did, however, enjoy a significant following ...
Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake "The Newest Sound Around" (1961) and Tina May & Nikki Iles "Change Of Sky" (1997)
by Nic Jones
The current fuss over largely photogenic female singers is doing a disservice both to the music itself and to those singers who, regardless of whether or not they wish to be defined in terms of their physical appearance, are caught up in the superficial values of the times in which we live, the unwritten strictures of ...
Stan Getz 'Award Winner' (1957) Bob Cooper 'For All We Know' (1990)
by Nic Jones
Stan Getz will always be admired for the purity of his tenor saxophone tone, spawned by Lester Young, personalized and polished to dazzling point by Getz. Indeed, for the latter part of his career he used it to disguise the fact that he often coasted. That stage was still some way in the future when he ...
