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Bridgeleap: Bridgeleap Plays the Albert Ayler Songbook
by Norman Weinstein
Few jazz revolutionaries have taken seriously Albert Ayler's improvisations on the bagpipes, an instrument only wholly showcased in albums by the neglected Rufus Harley. Bridgeleap, a western Canadian band with the unlikely instrumentation of bagpipes, trumpet, tablas and digital beats, has taken Ayler's occasional bagpipe blowing seriously, boldly creating an album of Ayler's greatest hits, with ...
Kekele: Kinavana
by Norman Weinstein
This extraordinary album of Congolese rumbas from a quintet of musical veterans with about 200 years of musical experience among them is an enthralling musical lesson. As much as the rumba is usually identified as quintessentially Cuban, it has historic roots in the Congo. When Congolese music fans began seriously listening to recordings of Cuban rumba ...
Tango: The Art History of Love
by Norman Weinstein
Tango: The Art History of Love Robert Farris Thompson Hardcover/384 pages Pantheon ISBN: 0375409319 2005 If you've wondered why the famous Argentine dance of tango has attracted numerous jazz artists from Gerry Mulligan to Wynton Marsalis, this stunningly passionate and informative overview of tango will quickly ...
Lee Morgan: Music for Lovers
by Norman Weinstein
Although annotator Donald Elfman deftly deflects the issue in his concise booklet essay, Lee Morgan was shot to death by his lover, certainly adding an irony to this disc's title, not to mention the additional irony that the compilation includes “Since I Fell For You." That might seem a minor marketing gaff, but there are fascinating ...
Jimmy Smith: Music for Lovers
by Norman Weinstein
This Music for Lovers compilation is probably the most restrained Jimmy Smith collection ever compiled, and it allows a rarely presented side of Smith's work from 1957-1960 to be spotlit. It's also an ideal showcase for Smith as delicately tasteful accompanist. An apt comparison would be to Oscar Peterson during the '50s. All ...
Dubwise: Reasoning From the Reggae Underground
by Norman Weinstein
Klive Walker Dubwise: Reasoning From the Reggae Underground Insomniac Press ISBN 1894663969 Paperback; 292 pages 2005This is a Trojan horse book, ostensibly about various facets of reggae music under-represented in reggae journalism, but on a certain level really a book about Jamaican jazz. As ...
Lisa Thorson's Opening of the Jazz Stage
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by Norman Weinstein
Jazz composer and vocalist Lisa Thorson has long been a leader in making live jazz accessible to the broadest possible audience. In the words of the blues great Sonny Boy Williamson, she “brings eyesight to the blind", and from “just one word from her lips,... the deaf can hear." To achieve such miraculous feats, Thorson, unlike ...
Stan Getz: Plays for Lovers
by Norman Weinstein
This compilation enters a marketplace littered with Getz compilations--and it's superior to the lot. It triumphs over the ton of Verve Getz disks by virtue of not having “The Girl From Ipanema," which the Verve marketing department assumed jazz fans needed to own on at least five Getz discs. More seriously, this anthology, culled from the ...
The Perfect Jazz Audience on Record... From Ethiopia
by Norman Weinstein
Not to add to the many rave reviews that have been justly offered on this site, I want to concentrate on just two facets of this completely remarkable recording. Worthy of this narrow a focus is “Shellela," a nearly eight minute “concerto" for the Ethiopian saxophonist Getachew Mekurya and the Either/Orchestra, and the audience response heard ...
Yusef Lateef: Psychicemotus
by Norman Weinstein
This is a welcome reissue of one of a series of fine Impulse! albums by multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef that have never taken their deserved place among the major recordings of the '60s. I suspect part of the reason for their neglect has to do with the image, helped by both the Impulse!, and later Atlantic labels, ...
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