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Lee Morgan: The Cooker
by Samuel Chell
Although Lee Morgan had already made a handful of albums at the age of 19, The Cooker (1957) represents his throwing down the gauntlet as successor to Clifford Brown's vacated throne. It's close to being a pure bebop session, suggestive of a date like For Musicians Only (Verve, 1956), on which Gillespie, Stitt and Getz set ...
Roy Clark and Joe Pass: Play Hank Williams
by Samuel Chell
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you--the title means what it says. Birdland comes to Hee Haw on this all-instrumental session, which features the country music icon mixing it up with the once-dominating master of jazz guitar (Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à la Salle Pleyel, Pablo, 1975). From the perspective of a city boy, this combination ...
One By One: The Musical Arithmetic Of Mort Weiss
by Samuel Chell
If it isn't a first, it's certainly not a common occurrence for a musician to take his axe out of storage after a forty-year lay-off without a missing a beat. And if Hammond B3 trios featuring tenor saxophonists with Selmer Mark 6s are a well-established instrumentation, the same can hardly be said about the combination of ...
Sam Chell's Choices for 2006
by Samuel Chell
Since the past exists only in the present, my 2006 rankings are highlighted by retro blue: previously unreleased material by Old Blue as well as the out-takes comprising Diana's Blue not to mention the return of Silver's Blue. Finally as a fan of music and literature, kudos to Ornette who, along with Noam Chomsky, shows us ...
Brian Groder: Torque
by Samuel Chell
I've always tried to remain open to the avant-garde, except when the musicians' freedom comes at the expense of the listener's, forcibly invading the precious personal space required for an aesthetic response. On three occasions when I caught Coltrane following the departure of Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, I reached such a point but stayed out ...
Max Roach: Jazz in 3/4 Time
by Samuel Chell
At the time of its appearance in 1957, this album, currently part of the limited EmArcy reissue series, was considered somewhat revolutionary due to its all-waltz program. That's become a moot point after all of the triple-meter jazz material that would follow--from “All Blues" to “Waltz for Debby" to “Someday My Prince Will Come." What makes ...
Pete Zimmer Quintet: Judgment
by Samuel Chell
Les Paul, the “Wizard of Waukesha," may be the better-known musician, but the guitarist's spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is clearly evident in a fellow Waukesha native, drummer Pete Zimmer. Unable to find a studio to record his music, Zimmer founded his own label, frequently featuring other Wisconsinites (Rich Germanson, John Sullivan, Joel Frahm) and, on ...
Various Artists: One More: The Summary - Music of Thad Jones, Vol. 2
by Samuel Chell
This tribute to Thad Jones' music is not only equal to Volume One (One More) but eclipses it, proving a worthy candidate for jazz album of the year 2007. One of the differences is Eddie Daniels, whose inviting solo on “Little Pixie" introduces a session that's as free-spirited as it is respectful of its inspirational source. ...
The Mort Weiss Quartet: Mort Weiss Meets Joey DeFrancesco
by Samuel Chell
"OK, let's just do it." The B3 player riffs on a dominant 7th sus chord; the soloist, eager to get it on, makes an entrance four measures into the organist's eight-bar intro, then waits four more bars before beginning the resilient “There Will Never Be Another You." The organ drops out a measure ahead of the ...
Tony Bennett And Bill Evans: The Classic Duets
by Samuel Chell
To capitalize on the renewed interest in Tony Bennett during the year of his attaining octogenarian status, Fantasy has just reissued The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album. A remastered edition was released as recently as 2003, but this time around five alternate takes have been added to the disc, one that for many listeners is the only ...
