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Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
by Jim Santella
This six-CD set features trumpeter Miles Davis with his early fusion band, marking the significant change that he was to bring about in jazz. Recorded from December 16-19, 1970, Davis' music retained the comfortable swing and fiery emotion that he had espoused in earlier years, but added a dynamic force that signaled progress in the entertainment ...
Woody Shaw: Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard
by John Kelman
It's one thing to play the right note, it's another to get it; one thing to play a phrase, another to get to its essence. With academic jazz education more accessible than ever, countless aspiring musicians are learning its vernacular. But music, like all art, is more than technique--it's an indefinable truth that can only come ...
Duke Ellington: The Essential Duke Ellington
by Jim Santella
Trying to compile an album of essential Duke Ellington performances is a difficult task indeed. How can you get it all in? How does one performance of “It Don't Mean a Thing" compare to another? It's all arbitrary, and that's why our record collections continue to grow. The recordings reissued on this two-CD compilation ...
100 Years of Jazz Guitar
by Jim Santella
Various Artists 100 Years of Jazz Guitar Columbia/Legacy 2005 Containing a veritable encyclopedia of written information about the guitarists who have molded jazz during its century of development, this four-CD boxed set has it all. From the earliest recorded traces of jazz guitar to Bill Frisell and John ...
Tyrone Davis: Give It Up (Turn It Loose): The Very Best of the Columbia Years
by Woodrow Wilkins
Typically, when Greenville, Mississippi and music are mentioned in the same breath, Delta blues singers come to mind--like Lil' Dave Thompson, Willie Foster, Roosevelt “Booba Barnes, and Eden Brent. But this small city along the river has produced singers in other genres as well. Bud Cockrell was one of the founding members of the rock group ...
Woody Shaw: Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jim Santella
Live straight-ahead jazz doesn't get much better than these two nights when Woody Shaw brought his quintet into the Village Vanguard in August 1978. Trumpet and saxophone improvise with forceful confidence, piano provides the glue that keeps them in a tightly- knit affair, and the rhythmic team of bass and drums exudes a propelling force.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Drum Suite
by Jim Santella
The all-star lineup on Drum Suite gives the album high marks before one note of music is played. It's a piece of history. Released in 1957, the album merged Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with several other musical forces that proved fruitful, rhythmically and otherwise. With this reissue come several bonus tracks that had appeared ...
Miles Davis: Miles in Tokyo
by Germein Linares
Recorded in '64, Miles in Tokyo finds the iconic Miles Davis performing with his almost-second great quintet. Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers, a more accomplished and daring experimentalist than his predecessor, George Coleman, joined the group after a fellow Bostonian, drummer Tony Williams, recommended him to Davis. There are times on this recording when one might understand ...
Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven
by George Harris
It's easy to pigeonhole this '63 Miles Davis recording as a “transition" period between his classic quintets, but one thing is quite clear: Miles was always in transition. Each Davis band was going through a musical or personnel metamorphosis, so we might as well simply take the music on its own terms and forget about the ...
Aretha Franklin: Jazz Moods
by Jim Santella
What a difference a day makes. Aretha Franklin made her first recordings at age fourteen as a gospel artist in Detroit. And in no time she was sitting on top of the world, pleasing audiences everywhere with soulful anthems like the tender reveries that have been grouped together for this moody “midnight" compilation. The ...
