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Jamie Baum Septet: Moving Forward, Standing Still
by John Kelman
Pity the poor flute. All too often relegated to the second line as an instrument doubled by saxophonists, considered an insubstantial instrument best used, if at all, for bossa novas and lightweight smooth jazz, its position in the jazz world is generally considered to be insignificant. And that's a shame, because while its attractive timbre may ...
Jamie Baum: Moving Forward, Standing Still
by Michael P. Gladstone
Flautist/composer Jamie Baum is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Baum's classical training has greatly influenced her writings and a sizeable portion of her ten compositions on Moving Forward, Standing Still are the direct result. Several tracks show evidence of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and “Bar Talk" ...
John McNeil: Sleep Won't Come
by Michael P. Gladstone
John McNeil is a veteran trumpeter and composer who has been part of the New York scene since the late 1970s. He was a member of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Horace Silver Quintet and has led his own groups. I have two of his Steeplechase albums in my own collection, and although '03's ...
Jamie Baum: Moving Forward, Standing Still
by AAJ Staff
In the booklet notes to this excellent album of Jamie Baum compositions (everything here except “From Scratch" is by Baum), the composer-flutist credits Bela Bartok and especially Igor Stravinsky as major influences on her writing. These influences emerge in luminous fashion on “Bar Talk," with its punning title, and the righteously Latin “Spring Rounds." Yet there's ...
John McNeil: Sleep Won't Come
by John Kelman
Anyone who has suffered from a bout of insomnia knows what trumpeter John McNeil is talking about with Sleep Won't Come. First there are the mental gymnastics as you try to settle your mind down, but instead you find yourself plagued with a barrage of ideas that just won't quit. Then you try the relaxation devices: ...
Jamie Baum: Moving Forward, Standing Still
by Dan McClenaghan
Moving Forward, Standing Still doesn't sound as though it's led by a flautist, in spite of the fact that flautist Jamie Baum has allowed herself and her instrument their fair share of solo time. She's also given her front line cohorts their share, too, in addition to writing in a good deal of multi-horn harmony and ...
Cameron Brown and the Hear and Now: Here and Now
by Rex Butters
After forty years of playing with the likes of Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Donald Byrd, and Ed Blackwell, Cameron Brown finally steps out for his debut as a leader. Recorded live, the band includes Leon Parker on drums and Dave Ballou on trumpet and flugelhorn, plus a couple of cameos by tenor titan Dewey Redman and ...
John McNeil: This Way Out
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
A veteran musician with more than 35 years of experience, trumpeter John McNeil has played in a variety of settings including Horace Silver's quintet and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. His latest effort, This Way Out, finds him fronting a quartet of veteran drummer Joe Smith and two nascent improvisers from Spain: tenor saxophonist Gorka ...
Here and How!: Cameron Brown
by AAJ Staff
This month is significant alone in that two veteran jazz bassists, Percy Heath and Cameron Brown, have simultaneously released their long overdue debuts as leaders. From Brown’s first appearance with George Russell (featuring Don Cherry) in 1965, we can now 40 years later enjoy the fruits of the bassist’s first led session. The surviving member of ...
Frank Kimbrough: Quickening
by Elliott Simon
A back-to-the-future 1998 live gig from Frank Kimbrough's piano trio, Quickening features eight original compositions penned by the leader. Kimbrough, bassist Ben Allison, and drummer Jeff Ballard are each members of the Jazz Composers Collective and, with their multiple collaborative projects, have created what is arguably some of the past decade's finest integrative jazz. They are ...
