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Billie Holiday: Blue Billie
by Charlie B. Dahan
Columbia’s Legacy label breaks up the recent all-encompassing Billie Holiday box set into three different themed collections. The Legacy label takes a look at Billie’s work in the blues idiom on “Blue Billie.” Many of these recordings are quite familiar to many Billie fans, such as “God Bless the Child: and “Night and ...
Louis Armstrong: Satch Blows The Blues
by Jim Santella
Beginning with “West End Blues” and proceeding in chronological order from that 1928 Hot Five session to “Yellow Dog Blues” in a 1955 session with all-star lineup, Satch Blows The Blues features an arbitrary selection of songs in which Louis Armstrong sings and plays the blues. The period 1932-54 and beyond is omitted in favor of ...
Billie Holiday: Blue Billie
by Jim Santella
Few singers could interpret with the conviction Billie Holiday used in delivering her musical love letters. She had a personal appeal that led us to believe we were listening to a dear relative sing, and that the audience was just us. Whether she was eyeing the waterfront in search of a soon-to-return loved one, or complaining ...
Various: Heineken Jazzfest
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Heineken Jazzfest ’91-San Juan, Puerto Rico , is the first recording issued by the most prestigious Puerto Rican jazz happening; highlighting, as all their yearly compact discs have done ever since, some of the performances during the musical festivities. Paquito D’Rivera was suitably honored in this edition of the Heineken Jazzfest (HJ), which was not the ...
Louis Armstrong: Satch Blows The Blues
by Charlie B. Dahan
Soon after Louis Armstrong left King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and just before he began to record under his own name, he accompanied many of the great blues singers of the 1920’s. Armstrong can be heard on numerous sessions with singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Armstrong had the touch and the feel needed ...
Louis Armstrong: The Best of the Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
Last year bore witness to one of the most exciting box-sets in a long time when Sony Legacy released “The Complete Louis Armstrong and the Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings.” This box commemorated the 100th birthday of one of the world’s greatest musicians, artists and innovators in the early period of his career. For those ...
Louis Armstrong: Take It, Satch!
by Jack Bowers
This compilation of vocals by the legendary Louis Armstrong spans the years 1929 (“Ain’t Misbehavin’”) to 1967 (“Cabaret”) and shows, more than anything else, that only the instrumental backing changed while Louis remained essentially the same from his earliest years to the end of his long and storied career. Considering the many sources from which the ...
Terrence Blanchard: Let's Get Lost
by John Sharpe
Sub-titled “The Songs of Jimmy McHugh”, Let’s Get Lost features 11 original tunes by one of America's great popular tunesmiths. Ironically, while most listeners will be familiar with the songs, few would be able to identify McHugh (1894-1969) as the composer. Aiding trumpeter Terrence Blanchard are four of the hottest female vocalists in jazz today--Dianna Krall, ...
Terence Blanchard: Let's Get Lost
by AAJ Staff
As a follow-up to his previous album, Wandering Moon, Terence Blanchard has chosen to de-emphasize his compositional skills and to honor the often-overlooked popular songs written by Jimmy McHugh. That would be a fine project for a jazz musician were he or she to reinterpret the tunes, and some of that does occur on Let's Get ...
John McLaughlin/ Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame - Birds Of Fire
by Alan Brooks
This is a review of the similarities of The Inner Mounting Flame and Birds Of Fire, both performed by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, led by John McLaughlin, the guitarist and composer. The Inner Mounting Flame, originally released in 1971, and re-issued as a remaster in 1999, is the better of the two albums. Birds Of Fire, originally ...
