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Buddy Rich: Live In '78
by Samuel Chell
Buddy Rich Live In '78 Jazz Icons 2006 This concert should definitely prove a winner for listeners who prefer the straight-ahead, swinging, Count Basie-indebted Buddy Rich ensembles of the mid-to-late 1970s to the somewhat rock-heavy sonic barrage of the band assembled by the legendary drummer and bandleader at the close ...
Bill Evans Trio: Everybody Digs Bill Evans
by Samuel Chell
This Keepnews Collection remaster/reissue of a 1958 recording is welcome if only as a reminder of Bill Evans' trio playing before the period of the celebrated Village Vanguard Sessions (Riverside, 1961). Instead of near-equal interaction by all three trio members, a supportive team of drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Sam Jones provides a non-intrusive backdrop ...
Jim Saltzman: Hidden Intentions
by Samuel Chell
Jim Saltzman is another gifted, pyrotechnical tenor player out of the Coltrane-Brecker school, one who, based on the evidence of this striking debut recording and all-original program, bears close watching. When he backs off on his sound, he displays an appealing, warm middle register, but for the most part the emphasis here is on high-energy, intense ...
Chasin' Gus' Ghost: Premiere of Jug Band Film Feature
by Samuel Chell
Chasin' Gus' Ghost Roxie New College Film Center San Francisco, California 7:00 and 9:00 pm, Friday, August 25, 2007 Close to the midpoint of this 2007 documentary film about a seminal African-American musical tradition, renowned musicologist Samuel Charters (The Country Blues, 1959) reminds us of the significance of ...
Monty Alexander: We've Only Just Begun
by Samuel Chell
Monty Alexander Trio We've Only Just Begun Universal 2006 Pure and simple, the hardest swinging session on record. Of course, what Duke Ellington meant by his famous criterion concerning swing is as debatable as Louis Armstrong's evasive definition of jazz. But if the listener's idea of “swing" goes beyond time-keeping, ...
Glass Bead Games
by Samuel Chell
"I suddenly realized that in the language of the Glass Bead Game every symbol and combination of symbols led not to single examples but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge."---Hermann HesseClifford Jordan was a soulful, powerful, deeply thoughtful Chicago tenor player who, though sought after by ...
Francesco Cafiso: New York Lullaby
by Samuel Chell
Yes, he is that good. Or was, on the occasion of this 2005 session, which features the fifteen-year-old native Sicilian saxophonist making his American recording debut accompanied by a crack New York rhythm section. Although it's common to hear rueful expressions about what a Charlie Parker or Clifford Brown might have accomplished had they lived longer, ...
Chet Baker: Chet
by Samuel Chell
A popular 1959 release by Chet Baker, this Riverside Keepnews Collection issue captures the gifted but troubled trumpeter at his best. It might even qualify as Baker's most satisfying and representative recording. Although Baker's reputation as a singer has steadily risen, those who tend to dismiss his androgynous vocals as secondary to his trumpet ...
Richie Cole: A Wiser But Still Swingin' Soul
by Samuel Chell
“Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go." (William Shakespeare) Alto saxophonist Richie Cole is the last of a breed--a fast and competitive musical gunslinger acquiring near-legendary status for his willingness to demonstrate his command of Charlie Parker's bebop language by taking on all comers at any speed--Billy the Kid packing an alto instead of a ...
Don Friedman: Waltz for Marilyn
by Samuel Chell
The impressive vita and discography of Don Friedman are but touchstones to the musicianship of this pianist who, like Kenny Barron and Hank Jones, navigates the jazz mainstream while remaining perpetually fresh if not cutting edge. On Waltz for Marilyn the seasoned veteran is joined by three like-minded, proven young musicians who bring the leader's conceptions ...
