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Shelly Manne & His Men: Yesterdays
by Russell Moon
Shelly Manne took his Men on a European tour with Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic organization in the winter of 1960. Along the way, Granz recorded the quintet's February 22 (Zurich) and March 2 (Copenhagen) gigs. Manne was a Contemporary Records artist at the time; however, Fantasy Records has acquired the rights to both Granz's ...
Richard "Groove" Holmes: On Basie's Bandstand
by Russell Moon
The years 1965 to 1968, during which which Richard “Groove" Holmes recorded for Prestige, comprised his career's best period, and thus a previously unreleased Prestige recording is very welcome. Groove Holmes joined the label in August 1965 with one of the jazz organ's finest albums, Soul Message. The following April, Prestige recorded Holmes at Count Basie's ...
Various Artists: Jazz Yule Love
by Russell Moon
At the end of various August 2000 and January 2001 recording sessions, Mack Avenue Records president and producer Stix Hooper asked artists to record their favorite Christmas songs. The result is Jazz Yule Love , twelve tracks by some of jazz's greatest names. By far the most cheery is Terry Gibbs' “White Christmas," where Gibbs is ...
Jaki Byard Quartet: The Last From Lennie's
by Russell Moon
It's Party Time! Prestige recorded pianist Jaki Byard's April 15, 1965 quartet gig at a suburban Boston nightclub called Lennie's on the Turnpike. Two LPs were subsequently produced from the session, Live! and Live! Vol. 2. Every track save one was subsequently issued on a single reissue CD entitled Live!. The brand new CD called The ...
Ken Schaphorst: Indigenous Technology
by Russell Moon
Ken Schaphorst is associated with big band albums, the best known and best distributed, I suspect, being Purple (Naxos, 1998). With Indigenous Technology Schaphorst takes a new look on the jazz trio. Schaphorst plays trumpet, flugelhorn or piano on the record alongside cellist Matt Turner and marimba/percussion player Dane Richeson. There is no drummer here. It ...
Barney Kessel: Plays For Lovers
by Russell Moon
Guitarist Barney Kessel was the backbone of what I consider to be the most romantic album ever made, Julie London's Julie Is Her Name. It was only a natural choice for Fantasy to add Kessel's name to its list of Plays For Lovers compilations. Barney Kessel Plays For Lovers is 67 minutes of generally gorgeous music ...
Cal Tjader: Cuban Fantasy
by Russell Moon
The brand new Cuban Fantasy is an album of previously unreleased material Cal Tjader recorded in concert in San Francisco over two nights in June, 1977. Tjader's band had the same instrumental makeup as his 1969 Plugs In band – vibes, electric piano, electric bass, trap drums, conga drums – with the addition of an electric ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: XXL
by Russell Moon
We still have a few weeks before he hear Auld Lang Syne, but I'm going to vote early. I hold in my hands the Album of the Year. XXL is the Big Phat Band's second album. Its first, Swingin' For the Fences, was nominated for two Grammys two years ago. Composer/arranger Gordon Goodwin has won three ...
Stan Kenton: Contemporary Concepts
by Russell Moon
Here's your trivia question for today: Who was the third man to be elected to Downbeat Magazine's Hall of Fame, the year before Duke Ellington? You guessed right if you said Stan Kenton. Contemporary Concepts was recorded in July of 1955, and it offers six standards arranged by Bill Holman and one by Gerry ...
The Tim Collins Quartet: Live In Concert
by Russell Moon
Tim Collins is a young vibraphonist from New York City, and Live In Concert documents his March 24, 2002 graduation recital at the Manhattan School of Music. Collins frequently gigs in the New York area (often as a duet) with pianist Ayako Shirasaki. Bassist Miles Brown and drummer Obed Calvaire are his preferred accompanists ...
