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Thelonious Monk: Complete Prestige Recordings
by Derek Taylor
One of the primary incentives of box sets is the promise of previous unreleased material. Their comprehensive nature points facilitates (and often mandates) the inclusion of any and all extant recordings by an artist during a given time frame. Frequently such sweeping attention to discographical detail comes at the cost of playability. Verve’s exhaustive approach to ...
Houston Person: Blue Odyssey
by Derek Taylor
Much to the chagrin of many critics the late 1960s was a heyday of sorts for Soul Jazz. The number of cats dipping their paws into the sweet nectar of the style would never again reach such denominations as it did during the close of the decade. Person, a saxophonist with both soulful touch and a ...
Dexter Gordon: Tangerine
by Derek Taylor
There is no shortage of Dexter Gordon sessions available on disc. Even with sporadic absences from recording Long Tall Dex still managed to cut a mammoth number of records during his illustrious career. With so much available there’s bound to be a continuum when it comes to quality. While this disc isn’t a classic on par ...
Dexter Gordon: Tangerine
by Glenn Astarita
As a young teen in the early 70’s, my audiophile-jazz enthusiast father figured the timing was right for me to diversify my listening habits by donating saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s 1975 release, Tangerine to my then – sparse but growing LP collection.. Yes, there was life after Hendrix, “The Who” and “The Rolling Stones”! Featuring bass hero ...
Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers: Cold Shoulder
by Derek Taylor
In the late 1960s Henry “Pucho” Brown was at the top of the heap. Successfully merging Soul, Funk and Latin rhythms into a steaming, genre-bending gumbo he hit upon a formula that packed both the dance floors and his pockets. A deluge of albums ensued, but predictably those later in the cycle relied heavily on the ...
Booker Ervin & Pony Poindexter: Gumbo!
by Derek Taylor
A strange combination of sorts, this release gathers two disparate sessions whose only apparent common denominator is the incredible Booker Ervin. Ervin’s name on the bill should be a signal to most jazz fans that the contents contained herein are worthy of their attention. The added bonuses are many as well and include a brief, but ...
Don Patterson/Booker Ervin/Houston Person: Just Friends
by Derek Taylor
Patterson is in the company of two of the 60s most formidable tenors on the pair of sessions collected on this disc. Person is first to bat and fronts a quartet rounded out by Martino and James. His brawny, resonant tone is a worthy compliment to Patterson’s adroit keyboard attack and the strength of their match ...
Buddy Tate & Claude Hopkins: Buddy & Claude
by Derek Taylor
Combining two rare Swingville sessions from the 60’ this disc is an excellent primer for those unfamiliar with the singular sounds of Buddy Tate. Tate served a lengthy tenure in Basie’s band and many other Kansas City collectives before branching out on his own and these sessions visit him in his later years still laying down ...
Sonny Stitt: Low Flame
by Derek Taylor
Despite its periodic popularity and its tenable ties to today’s acid jazz scene 60s soul jazz has a checkered history when it comes to critical acceptance. Denigrated as simplistic and repetitive the music was often judged on unequal footing with more ‘scholarly’ schools of jazz such as be-bop and cool. The Hammond B-3 players who were ...
Taft Jordan: Mood Indigo
by Derek Taylor
Metaphorically equating the Ellington Orchestra with the Amazon River is an easy prospect. The hundreds of players who passed through its ranks are as numerous as the tributaries that pour into the mighty South American waterway. Ellington’s skill at shaping and sculpting his sidemen into his monumental sound and vision is legendary and with good reason. ...
