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Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz Concord Music 2010 Ray Charles spent the 1950s and 1960s transforming the atomic American musics of gospel, the blues, R&B and country into what has been tagged “soul." Should jazz have been immune to his considerable charms? No, of course not. During the ...
Christian Scott: Breaking Boundaries, Crossing Lines
by Frederick Bernas
Christian Scott is lounging on a black leather couch, easy and relaxed before taking to the stage at a Moscow jazz club. The cold, gloomy Russian capital hosted the New Orleans trumpeter's quintet for a trio of gigs in February 2009--including a show at the US ambassador's cushy residence, in front of an elite audience of ...
Chris Greene Quartet: Merge
by C. Michael Bailey
Chicago-native Chris Greene keeps stylistic company with Wayne Escoffery, AJ Kluth, and Ricky Sweum, in that he plays a saxophone with sharp edges when necessary and smooth ones when called upon. His previous recordings, On The Verge (as Chris Greene's New Perspective, Self Produced, 2002) and Soul and Science, Volume 1 (as the Chris Green Quartet, ...
Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
by Chris May
Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, ...
Jon Irabagon Releases Concord Jazz Debut - The Observer
The new release from 2008 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner Jon Irabagon, The Observer, hits stores this week (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Irabagon has assembled a dream-team of musicians, including the stellar rhythm section of pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer {Victor Lewis}}, alongside veteran producer Don Sickler and legendary ...
Jon Irabagon: The Observer
by Troy Collins
Best known as the volatile saxophonist in bassist Moppa Elliott's self proclaimed terrorist be-bop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Jon Irabagon has only just begun his career as a solo artist. His bristling duet with drummer Mike Pride, I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues (Loyal Label, 2009) was preceded by Outright! (Innova, 2008), ...
Lee Morgan: Tom Cat
by Matt Marshall
Lee Morgan Tom Cat Blue Note / Music Matters 2008 (1980) Tom Cat continues Music Matter's program of re-releasing generally unavailable Blue Note sessions from the 1950s and 1960s on 45-rpm vinyl double albums. As Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes from the original 1980 release, Tom Cat was ...
Grant Green: Street Of Dreams
by Chris May
Grant Green (1931-79) is probably the most sampled guitarist of his generation, and is rightly regarded as a godfather of acid jazz. His debut, Grant's First Stand (Blue Note, 1961)--heavy on the good foot groove--was made with soul jazz organist Baby Face Willette, and by 1965, when Green recorded an album for Verve, the label was ...
Blue Note 70th Anniversary Tour at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
The Blue Note 7Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsVerizon HallPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaMarch 28, 2008 The legendary Blue Note record label is celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year. To briefly summarize its history and achievements, one can do no better than to quote from the Wikipedia entry on the subject:
