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Sam Bardfeld: Periodic Trespasses
by Robert R. Calder
Vibes, bass and drums make an interestingly different rhythm section, one that Bobby Hutcherson long ago used to help jazz musicians reach new places without exiling them from their origins. One musician the master vibraphonist helped was Eric Dolphy, who is mentioned in this set's notes. Quite right, there is some Dolphy in Sam Bardfeld, who ...
Jabbo Ware: Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington
by Robert R. Calder
Jabbo Ware Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington 2005 Y'All of New York, Inc. I've not encountered (James) Jabbo Ware's Me, We and Them Orchestra before. He was, I read, born in Georgia and studied in St. Louis. There, when he was eighteen, a music teacher took him to a ...
Uri Caine: Toys
by Robert R. Calder
On balance this 1996 set--part of a series of lush, slightly unpractically packaged reissues on the German Winter & Winter label--is neither the most spontaneous nor always the most profound. Technical accomplishment it does have in spades, however. Herbie Hancock's music was a focus of Toys and the recording has been out of print for a ...
Rossano Sportiello: Piano on My Mind
by Robert R. Calder
Eastwood Lane was an American pastoral woodland that composer Bix Beiderbecke admired; his “Down Stream" opens this solo second CD by the young Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello as a peaceful atmospheric etude. “Blowin' Up" is the pianist's own, featuring a boppish theme with a running left hand. It slips into a string of ballads, “You Took ...
Harri Stojka Gipsysoul: Garude Apsa
by Robert R. Calder
Garude Apsa ("Hidden Tears") is a beautiful production by a serious Austrian jazz musician playing, as he insists, “not jazz." The music is of a sort which has influenced jazz, rather than been influenced by it. It has more go than some things you'll hear called gypsy jazz. “Garude Apsa/Reprise" also demonstrates what John Lewis' composition ...
Deborah Weisz: Grace (for Will)
by Robert R. Calder
Deborah Weisz dedicates “Grace," which opens her album of the same name, to her brother Will, marking her struggle back into composition after his untimely death silenced her for a while. From dissociated flutterings of all the instruments, including harmonica, comes the big, blurry trombone sound of the leader with minimal accompaniment. Andrew Sterman's hard-toned neo-Coltrane ...
Keith B. Brown: Delta Soul
by Robert R. Calder
Delta Soul has interesting notes, in terms of both music and liner commentary. Like the various much older, now gone bluesmen he emulates, Keith B. Brown took up guitar on the side, though the side of a college education, majoring in history. Like old bluesmen he played what was around to be heard, but like the ...
Vince Seneri: Street Talk
by Robert R. Calder
This one's on the lightweight side, and devalued by an excess of percussion, probably mostly from poor balance during engineering. “Steamrollin" is described as “dedicated and written for Jimmy Smith by Vince Seneri," but where Smith swung like “. . ." (quoting the three dots from somebody else's album title of long ago), the bad balance ...
Stich Wynston's Modern Surfaces: Transparent Horizons
by Robert R. Calder
The intro emerges as heavy bowed bass--buzzy, ominous, sustained. Suddenly there's a thunderstorm, rock drumming, electric guitar, and tenor saxophone. A synthesizer (seldom-used here) wails, but less than the guitar and saxophone, then makes bell sounds and more while the bass goes thudding and bells like a stag before things devolve into the slower, quieter space ...
Ezra Weiss: Persephone
by Robert R. Calder
These young men who understand the point of playing hard bop do so here in a strongly compositional, mini-orchestral context. After a piano intro to “Lord, Give me Wings," Kelly Roberge's tenor saxophone is first up, a soft-toned asset to deeply crafted ensembles, congenial too in solo. The trumpet crackles, with telling, not showy piano support. ...
