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Various Artists: Texas Tenors
by AAJ Staff
Like Chicago, Texas is well known for its tenors--big-toned, fat, soulful, hard-blowing, gutsy tenors. This CD reminds us that Prestige did its part to document Texas-style tenors; even if a particular player on this CD didn't live in Texas his entire life, the Lone Starr connection was there. Texas tenors loved the blues, and we hear ...
Coleman Hawkins: On Broadway
by AAJ Staff
A generous 76-minute CD, Coleman Hawkins On Broadway contains 1962 recordings originally heard on three LPs: Good Old Broadway, Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy From Do Re Mi and The Coleman Hawkins Quartet Plays The Jazz Version Of No Strings. All of the songs Hawk interprets were from Broadway plays, and everything boasts the sparkling ...
Charles Earland: Living Black
by AAJ Staff
Occasionally, an improviser will manage to come up with something that has as much commercial appeal as it does artistic integrity. Charles Earland accomplished this in 1969, when his jazz interpretation of The Spiral Staircase's blue-eyed pop/soul hit “More Today Than Yesterday" became a hit among R&B audiences. For all its accessibility, the ...
Ronnie Laws: Tribute To The Legendary Eddie Harris
by AAJ Staff
Ronnie Laws showed considerable promise on his early albums of the mid-1970s, but in the 80s and 90s, the tenor & soprano saxman often wasted his improvisatory skills on overproduced, vapid NAC and lightweight “smooth jazz" fluff. A welcome return to his jazz/funk and “soul jazz" roots, Tribute To The Legendary Eddie Harris ...
Houston Person: Island Episode
by Douglas Payne
There must be very few musicians as frequently recorded as Houston Person who are as misunderstood, maligned or just plain ignored. The jazz crowd thinks he's just a funkster. And the funk lovers write him off as a balladeer or standards-bearer. Of course, he's all this and more. He's also an accomplished be-bopster, a ...
Freddie Hubbard: Keystone Bop Vol. 2: Friday/Saturday
by Douglas Payne
Here's Freddie Hubbard the way he was meant to be heard -- muscular, exciting, in good form and live on stage with outstanding guests and a top-notch band. Keystone Bop: Vol 2 Friday / Saturday is the second installation from a weekend series of sets recorded November 27-29, 1981, at Todd Barkan's long-gone Keystone Korner in ...
