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Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay
by Norman Weinstein
This album has certainly had a sad history. It was left in the Blue note vaults for fourteen years. Then it was reissued in a double-vinyl set with Hub Cap, a coupling that doesn't reveal either session in the best light.Then a decade later, it finally was released as a single album. And that brings us ...
Blowin' Hot And Cool: Jazz And Its Critics
by Norman Weinstein
Blowin' Hot And Cool: Jazz And Its Critics John Gennari Cloth; 494 pages ISBN 0-22-28922 University Of Chicago Press 2006 There is a fascinating Trojan horse aspect to this magnificient study of the roles jazz critics have played in the shaping of jazz over the past ...
Grant Green: Live at Club Mozambique
by Norman Weinstein
This is some apotheosis of both jazz-funk and Grant Green, just when you thought Blue Note was practicing overexposure by adding yet another Green disk to last year's three discs worth of funky compilations. But this live session, which spent 35 years in the vault, transcends all previous Grant Green funk sessions by a mile.
A Confusing Musical Story About Pierre Verger
by Norman Weinstein
This is a rumination about a great collector of world music, and an equally great photographer, Pierre Verger, whose name is now on the sleeves of some outstanding world music CDs.I'll return to the particulars of the several discs in the Collection Edition Pierre Verger series. But first, let me share my puzzlement about ...
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
by Norman Weinstein
Various Artists The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records Impulse! 2006 Your reaction to this four-CD box has a great deal to do with whether you give more emphasis to the main title, “The House That Trane Built, or the subtitle, “The Story of Impulse Records. If ...
Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions
by Norman Weinstein
"Complete" in this case refers to two LPs worth of primo early Gil Evans.The first LP on this disc answers the question of what would have happened if Evans had written a concerto for anyone other than Miles Davis. “New Bottle, Old Wine" is a version of the “Miles Ahead" concerto concept for Cannonball Adderley. And ...
How to Advance Jazz Radio: Judy Carmichael Has the Knack
by Norman Weinstein
As someone who was educated by jazz radio as a teenager, and a tip of the hat to Joel Dorn's programming on Philly's WHAT-FM is in order here, I've had a special appreciation of how enlightening jazz radio programming can be. Yet my appreciation of jazz radio from the 60s has often turned to disappointment in ...
Various Artists: Downbeat The Ruler: Killer Instrumentals from Studio One
by Norman Weinstein
If a reggae instrumental compilation seems rather out of place in the context of a jazz site, rest assured that many of the players on these eighteen selections were or are major Jamaican jazz players. In a just world, their fame would be taken for granted in both jazz and reggae contexts. In our imperfect world, ...
Francisco Mela: Melao
by Norman Weinstein
Cuban drummers relocating to the US over the years have made a remarkable contribution to jazz on these shores, and Francisco Mela is the newest talent to add to that list. Melao is a striking tour de force for the young drummer/composer, who transplanted himself from Havana to Boston a decade ago. Mela has wisely surrounded ...
Ran Blake: All That Is Tied
by Norman Weinstein
Of the plethora of pianist/composers who have extended the style of Thelonious Monk, none has been as relentlessly exploratory and consistently thoughtful in his experiments as Ran Blake. On this session recorded four decades after his first solo piano album on ESP, Blake revisits material he's recorded in the past, but Blake has never remotely repeated ...
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