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Manuel Rocheman: The Touch of Your Lips: Tribute to Bill Evans
by C. Michael Bailey
The French Naive record label, long known for its fine releases of classical music--particularly its ongoing Vivaldi Opera project--has initiated a jazz stream, highlighting French jazz talent, including pianist Manuel Rocheman's The Touch of Your Lips: Tribute to Bill Evans. It is somehow fitting that a tribute to America's last great pioneer in jazz piano (apologies ...
Red Garland and Lockjaw Davis
Some jazz contemporaries were perfect for each other but never recorded. Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, for example, in the early '50s. Or Art Tatum and Benny Goodman in the '40s. In other cases, some dynamic duos did wind up in a studio together—but strangely didn't record nearly enough. One prime example is Red Garland [pictured] ...
The 1956 Trio
By Red Garland
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2010
Track listing: A Foggy Day; My Romance; What is This Thing Called Love?; Makin' Whoopee;
September in the Rain; Little Girl Blue; Blue Red; Constellation; Willow, Weep for Me; If I
Were a Bell; I Know Why; What Can I Say?; Ahmad's Blues.
Alex Levin: New York Portraits
by Edward Blanco
New York-based pianist Alex Levin borrows standards from the jazz-rich era of the 1940s,' 50s and '60s, and includes a couple of originals for New York Portraits, his third album as leader. Along with bassist Michael Bates, (leader of the Outside Sources ensemble) and drummer Brian Floody, the trio lays down a relaxed shuffle of rhythm-based ...
Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours
by Dan McClenaghan
Music is a treat for the ears, for the sense of hearing. But are the borders separating the senses permeable? Can Red Garland's piano notes be said to “sparkle?" Can Paul Desmond's alto saxophone have the sound of a dry martini? Are these metaphors, perhaps, based to some extent on realities along a continuum of sensory ...
Joe Alterman: Piano Tracks, Volume 1
by Dan McClenaghan
The late Miles Davis had a hand in pushing the standard-playing piano trio out of fashion. The iconic trumpeter's Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) moved jazz in new and bold directions, and it didn't take long for the piano/bass/drums format to slip into the quaint and old fashioned--and very un-hip--category.Then along came Keith Jarrett--a ...
Alex Levin Trio: New York Portraits
by C. Michael Bailey
Artists do not evolve in a vacuum. Collectively, they assimilate all they have learned and heard into a new creative paradigm that they call their own. A durable respect for the past characterizes the trio art of pianist Alex Levin. Listening to his collection New York Portraits, the spirits of pianists long gone are present in ...
Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers: Chucho's Steps
by Chris May
The semiology contained on pianist Chucho Valdés' magnificent Chucho's Steps points to the character of the music before the disc has even been taken out of its sleeve. First there's the name of the group and its reference to drummer Art Blakey's ferociously swinging Jazz Messengers. Then there's the title of the opener, “Las dos caras" ...
Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers: Chucho's Steps
by Chris May
La semiología contenida en el magnífico Chucho's Steps de Chucho Valdés define el carácter de la música antes de haber reproducido el disco. En primer lugar, la referencia al batería Art Blakey y al swing apasionado y feroz de los Jazz Messengers. Luego, el título de la pieza inicial, Las dos caras, que apunta a las ...
Adrian Iaies Trio: A Child's Smile
by Raul d'Gama Rose
On A Child's Smile, Adrian Iaies sheds the Argentinean persona that occasionally shrouds his music. Here the pianist has become a complete, swaggering, swinging entity, and one who melds his mentors--Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland and principally Bill Evans--into an entirely new entity. The result is a brooding artist who looks deep within ...
