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Various Artists: Jazz and Blues on Edison, Volume 1
by Robert R. Calder
In some part a sampling of 1920s American popular music--sublime, quaint, occasionally ridiculous, livelier than mass market roaring Twenties pastiches--this set of unissued recordings from a quality label abandoned seventy years back includes one big footnote to jazz scholarship. That footnote's not in the stock 1920 (Vincent) Lopez performance of ragtime with military band echoes, or ...
Mort Weiss: The B3 and Me
by Robert R. Calder
Mort Weiss turned 71 last year. Records from sixty, fifty, forty years back, of anybody playing clarinet as he does now, would have been equally noteworthy with this second CD, even without the novelty of also featuring a Hammond B3 player (far less the man Weiss isn't alone in calling the Hammond B3 player). This may ...
Fred Fried: The Wisdom of Notes
by Robert R. Calder
This is a gentle set, but Fred Fried's acoustic guitar, with its seven nylon strings, is unlikely to feature in anything much different. Tony Tedesco plies his brushes resourcefully on his drum kit, but the key to many of the set's successes is the brilliant bass playing of the veteran Michael Moore. Don't even think of ...
Dino Saluzzi Group: Juan Condori
by Robert R. Calder
Juan Condori is useful if you want to find out how Dino Saluzzi, born 1935, a slightly younger veteran bandoneonist, sounds relative to Astor Piazzolla--not only is the setting comparable, but the music made by this family group is well worth hearing anyway. Saluzzi has the more lyrical turn of phrase, and the band has a ...
Mark Feldman: What Exit
by Robert R. Calder
As an instrumentalist, Mark Feldman is mind-boggling. His violin technique isn't lotsa notes, it's careful phrasing and command of tone, and a huge sound which would have offended some pseudo-classicists of some decades ago. It's “Romantic"! For a classy Feldman performance, try “Father Demo Square" here, with Anders Jormin setting the pace (the bassist may be ...
Edward Simon: Unicity
by Robert R. Calder
Edward Simon, John Patitucci and Brian Blade did a few magical things on a 2003 album under Patitucci's name (Songs, Stories and Spirituals, Concord). At the time these three musicians decided that they ought to get together and do, well, what they do well here. After a minute's “Invocation," they're jamming heartily on Patitucci's “The Messenger," ...
The Mingus Big Band: Live in Tokyo
by Robert R. Calder
"Wham, Bam," indeed! Compared to the best performances by the late Charles Mingus, this effort has the air of more orthodox big bands like the ones led by Clarke/Boland and Jones/Lewis, which is also to say the best. McCoy Tyner's band on a good night has included some of the same performers featured on this live ...
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra: 80th Birthday Concert
by Robert R. Calder
George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra 80th Birthday Concert Concept Publishing 2005 Now and then in recent years, George Russell (born 1923) has attacked what he considers backward-looking tendencies in the playing of younger jazzmen. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra was among those who fell under grave suspicion. Yet ...
Lil' Son Jackson: Rockin' and Rollin' (Volume 1; 1948-49)
by Robert R. Calder
Instant nostalgia for veteran blues fans: the opening track here, “Roberta," the first ever recording by Melvin “Lil' Son" Jackson, came out on a pioneering anthology of mostly pre-war blues some forty years back. Few blues records, new or otherwise, had then been available very far from the blues' native home and birthplace. ...
Joe Lovano: Streams Of Expression
by Robert R. Calder
Joe Lovano Streams Of Expression Blue Note Records 2006 Forget those ill-founded accusations of conservatism. Joe Lovano is a genuine innovator. He's uninterested in novelty for novelty's sake and he's very, very ambitious for his music. He makes things more interesting for everybody, including himself, by (no apologies for the ...
