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Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58
by Samuel Chell
Although one could quarrel easily enough with the title, this meeting rises above the usual jam session produced by impresario Norman Granz for his Verve label because of the personnel. Gerry Mulligan, Sweets Edison, Oscar Peterson (practically the “house pianist" at Verve), Ray Brown--these are inimitable and personal instrumental voices in American music, and each speaks ...
Nancy LaMott: Ask Me Again
by Samuel Chell
Nancy LaMott's story is the stuff of Hollywood melodrama--and a lesson about time. When she died on December 13, 1995 from uterine cancer preceded by years of battling Crohn's disease followed by an ileostomy, she left behind a scant but distinguished discography of six precious CDs. Even those became unavailable when, after a marriage hastily assembled ...
Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
by Samuel Chell
This extraordinary 1962 session was the realization of a promise made thirty years earlier between the maestro, Duke Ellington, and the father of the tenor saxophone, Coleman Hawkins, that they would some day make a record together. Released a mere two months ahead of the largely iconic Ellington-Coltrane meeting, the earlier date is distinguished by the ...
Nancy LaMott: I'll Be Here With You - A Collection of Rare Live Performances 1978-1995
by Samuel Chell
Nancy LaMott I'll Be Here With You - A Collection of Rare Live Performances 1978-1995 Midder Music 2008 Nancy LaMott was the last of a breed--not an improvising jazz singer in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Karrin Allyson; not a singer-songwriter like Carole King, Joni Mitchell, or ...
Sonny Stitt: Don't Call Me Bird!
by Samuel Chell
Absolute Distribution, a Spanish consortium of labels, has done it again, following up last year's welcome single-disc reissue (at least outside the U.S.) of Stitt's 1970s Cobblestone sessions, Tune-Up! + Constellation, with two 1959 West Coast dates for Verve featuring Stitt on alto with a crack California rhythm section. Even though a first-time reissue, the disc ...
LD Frazier with Scott Stroman and The Eclectic Voices: I Was There When The Spirit Came
by Samuel Chell
LD Frazier I Was There When The Spirit Came 33 Jazz 2006 Even before Ray Charles blended gospel music and American pop, pianist-composer Horace Silver had composed and recorded “The Preacher," followed in short order by the jubilant, infectious sounds of gospel music on jazz recordings by fellow bandleaders drummer ...
Carmen McRae: Carmen McRae: Live at Sugar Hill - San Francisco
by Samuel Chell
This overlooked on-location session from 1963 reveals, perhaps more than any other recording, why Carmen McRae at the time deserved to complete the dominating triumvirate in which Ella Fitzgerald's and Sarah Vaughan's places were always secure. In the 1970s the marketplace would often hamstring her choice of material and settings, and in the 1980s the years ...
Mark Miller: The Return Of Slide Huxtable
by Samuel Chell
Mark Miller The Return Of Slide Huxtable Slide Huxtable 2007 No doubt most Americans today would have trouble believing that just over half a century ago, the two most popular, commercially successful musicians were trombonists. And not long after the stardom of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, the ...
Cal Massey: Blues to Coltrane
by Samuel Chell
This is the only recording by the luckless, quasi-legendary trumpeter-composer Cal Massey, whose elliptical, often anonymous career can be a challenge to piece together. Some close followers of the music are aware of the late musician, at least by name, because of “These Are Soulful Days," a composition programmed by trumpeter Lee Morgan (Lee-Way, Blue Note, ...
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
by Samuel Chell
Following upon the first-time release of Mingus At UCLA 1965 (Universal 2007), which afforded penetrating if uneven glimpses into bassist Charles Mingus' creative process, this two-disc release offers more satisfying music and a fuller picture of an earlier and smaller but more distinguished Mingus ensemble--the fabled 1964 touring unit that would be recorded later that same ...
