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Deep Cuts: Elton John, "Come Down in Time" (1970)
By Nick DerisoThis song, taken from a brilliant album called “Tumbleweed Connection," is the reason why you have to hate Elton John's last period.John is never in half light any more—never so patient, so bravely remote, so note perfect. Back then, he put out piano music, with an active and jazzy rhythm ...
Michael Dease - Grace (2010)
By PicoCurtis Fuller, one of the greatest living trombone players of all time declared “I predict that Michael Dease will become one of the world's great trombone masters." And when you hear Dease's fluid, lush style, it's not hard to see the young phenom as the legitimate successor to Fuller.Yet, Dease, who ...
Miles Davis - The Complete 'On the Corner' Sessions (2007)
By PicoMiles Davis is takin' it to the streets.In late spring of 1972, Davis broke a two year hiatus from the studio to act upon his most daring idea of his 45 year recording history: to create music that finally is completely absent of any jazz aesthetic and replace it with “street" ...
The Either Orchestra - Mood Music for Time Travellers (2010)
By Mark SaleskiI'm going to begin by saying something that will probably horrify many a jazz lover: I never liked Duke Ellington or Count Basie all that much.It's true. I know that a jazz writer shouldn't be admitting to such things but sometimes you have to stick with honesty. OK, and while ...
The Claudia Quintet + Gary Versace - Royal Toast (2010)
By PicoThe Claudia Quintet is an ensemble that goes by its own set of rules. With its slightly weird combination of vibes, accordion, sax, double-bass and drums, and songs that don't follow the script of how songs go (but avoids skronkery and dissonance), the five piece band is an anomaly of an anomaly. It ...
John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)
By Nick DerisoWhile John Mellencamp continues a run of career-defining records, dating back to 2007's “Freedom's Road," best leave your dancing shoes in the closet.Producer T Bone Burnett cops to it, in the liner notes to “No Better Than This," set for release Aug. 17 on Rounder Records: “All those ghosts. All ...
One Track Mind: The Brecker Brothers "Song for Barry" (1992)
By PicoSuch much has been mentioned here about the late, great saxophonist Michael Brecker, but nothing about the group from which he first gained fame from.Michael, of course, wasn't the only musically talented Brecker; brother Randy was and remains a pretty good trumpet player in the hard bop tradition. He was also ...
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely (1958)
By Nick DerisoAll due respect to Nelson Riddle, but this didn't seem like it would work. “Only the Lonely," at first—even to Sinatra—felt more temperamentally suited to Gordon Jenkins, the man most closely associated with much of Frank Sinatra's more string-oriented, darker work. (See the very good CD “September of My Years," featuring “It ...
One Track Mind: Tom Waits - "Please Wake Me up" (1987)
By Mark SaleskiAfter listening to certain Tom Waits songs, I get to thinking about what the man might have stored in his garage. Sure, it's become sort of a cliché, doing a mental inventory of Waits' collection of bullhorns and whatnot, but it sure is fun.Even more fun is doing an inventory ...
One Track Mind: Curtis Fuller - "Alamode" (2010)
By PicoA guy who has helped to pioneer a fluid yet supple sound for the trombone, participated in so many classic records and performed as a member of so many prominent jazz ensembles should be a first ballot entry into the jazz Hall of Fame, if such a thing were to exist. But the ...
