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Charles Mingus: At UCLA
by Samuel Chell
Charles Mingus At UCLA Sunnyside Records 2006 The actual title of this CD is Charles Mingus: Music Written for Monterey, 1965. Not heard...played in its entirety at UCLA. Vols. 1 and 2. The apparent overkill of the title prepares us for more of the same in the accompanying booklet, which ...
Donald Byrd: Royal Flush
by Samuel Chell
Donald Byrd Royal Flush Blue Note 2006 One of a handful of Rudy Van Gelder remasters released this past August, Royal Flush would be welcome if only because it's the recording debut of Herbie Hancock. Looking all of fourteen in the photo included with the accompanying booklet (he was 21 ...
Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron: Ballads
by Samuel Chell
Pity bassist Marc Johnson. He was an integral part of Bill Evans' trio during the pianist's final year, an extraordinary valedictory culminating in two monumental sets, Last Waltz and Consecration (Fantasy, 1980/2002), only to be orphaned upon the pianist's sudden death at the completion of those remarkable recordings. There would be no one to take the ...
Hank Mobley: Another Workout
by Samuel Chell
Hank Mobley Another Workout Blue Note 2006 (1961/1985) I can scarcely remember the last time an anticipated “new" release has afforded as much immediate pleasure as this one. Go with a single horn player--arguably the most melodically fertile tenor saxophonist of his time--and give him the support of a rhythm ...
Deep Blue Organ Trio: Goin' to Town - Live at the Green Mill
by Samuel Chell
Deep Blue Organ Trio Goin' To Town: Live At The Green Mill Delmark 2006 Although Philadelphia is the acknowledged capitol of jazz organ, Chicago South-siders with long memories will make a compelling case for the prominent role of the B-3 at some of the Windy City's most historic ...
Donald Byrd Quartet featuring Bobby Jaspar: Au Chat Qui Peche 1958
by Samuel Chell
Were you to ask trumpeter Donald Byrd what moment in his career he would most like to relive, it would not be surprising if he selected the period documented on this recording. It was the late summer of 1958, and Byrd and his quartet had settled in for an extended gig, including practically carte blanche musical ...
Diana Ross: Blue
by Samuel Chell
This album is an eye-opener, especially after all the negative press and peer criticism that followed the R&B queen's starring role in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues: her portrayal of America's foremost tragic jazz diva, as well as her impersonation of a music persona of cult-like proportions in the inner, exclusive circles of the ...
The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York
by Samuel Chell
This 2006 release of an on-location recording features a non-working band of five musicians who live above 96th Street and have studied at the New School or the Manhattan School of Music. The sounds are less suggestive of the conservatory, however, than Rudy Van Gelder's Blue Note recording studio from the late '50s and early '60s, ...
Paul Motian Trio 2000 + One: On Broadway, Vol. 4: Or The Paradox of Continuity
by Samuel Chell
On the year of his 75th birthday, Paul Motian has released Volume 4 in his ongoing On Broadway series. This time his group, Trio 2000 + One, features saxophonist Chris Potter and bassist Larry Grenadier, augmented by pianist Masabumi Kikuchi on five of the thirteen tracks and vocalist Rebecca Martin on the remaining eight. No matter ...
The Horace Silver Quintet: Horace-Scope
by Samuel Chell
It's highly doubtful there's been a more instantaneously infectious recent release than this new Rudy Van Gelder edition of a 1960 Horace Silver master session. Without as much as a pickup note, the opening measure places the listener in stride with as irresistible a tune as Silver ever composed: “Strollin.'" The remaining pieces are no less ...
