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Celebrating CTI Records 40th Anniversary - Part 4
Masterworks Jazz continues the 40th anniversary celebration of the great CTI Records with another four newly re-mastered discs including George Benson's Body Talk, Hubert Laws's In the Beginning, Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life, and Stanley Turrentine's Don't Mess with Mister T. Originally produced by Creed Taylor and in most cases recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder, ...
Bob James and Howard Paul "Just Friends: The Hamilton Hall Sessions 2011"
This surprising stroll through the Great American Songbook comes courtesy of pianist and two-time Grammy award winner Bob James and seven-string guitarist Howard Paul. Recorded in early 2011 at Hamilton Hall, overlooking the Savannah River, in Savannah, Georgia, this acoustic pairing of two kindred spirits revels in its warm and engaging format and reveals a mutual ...
Dave Grusin "Mulholland Falls"
While Dave Grusin has crafted many a musically memorable soundtrack, highlights of which probably include The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), On Golden Pond (1981) and Tootsie (1982), he is probably a more remarkable and more remarkably unheralded sound colorist, expertly matching music so seamlessly to ...
Ray Bryant - R.I.P.
While the news today has been full of the deaths of Jack “Dr. Death" Kevorkian, 83 (a curiously interesting musician in his own right), and actor James “Matt Dillon" Arness, 88, the great pianist Ray Bryant has also died. His sound—a mix of joyous jazz and grandstanding gospel—was like no other and is evident on many ...
Jamie Ruben "Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene"
The musical path of Canadian guitarist Jamie Ruben is surely the story of the road less traveled. Rather than gigging regularly in some urban jazz hotbed, the Toronto-based guitarist made his living for seven years performing jazz full time in the Far East in such places as Katmandu, Bangkok, Shanghai and the even more remote regions ...
Album Art: Suburban Abstract
Somehow abstract art became popular among the American suburban culture of the late '50s and early '60s. For proof, watch any episode of Mad Men, one of the best ways to see—not really know—what the world might have been like for East Coast Americans of a certain age at certain point in history. (Left: Olga Albizu's ...
Wilbert Longmire
Cincinnati based guitarist Wilbert Longmire has long had a curious career as a legend throughout northern Ohio and as an occasional headliner on national albums, paired with some of jazz's greatest names. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Wilbert moved with his parents to Cincinnati when he was only three. He started off as a violinist in his ...
Favorite Bond
I spend a lot of time watching and listening to James Bond, always returning to certain favorites. Despite a series overflowing with interesting music—some of the best of its kind—these are a few of the songs that have always rocked my world. I have neither a special favorite among all these I've identified here, a sort ...
"Love Song" by Elton John
Bet you'd never guess that the first musician I ever obsessed over—really obsessed over— was Elton John. My earliest memories of Elton include “Crocodile Rock," “Tiny Dancer," “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and “Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," all of which were blasted endlessly over the AM radio channel I listened to back in the day (13-Q, ...
First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary
It was 50 years ago this year that ABC Records, having recent success with such pop acts as Paul Anka, Buddy Holly and others, decided to create a specialty label specifically designed for jazz music. One of the company's most successful producers, Creed Taylor, who had already brought the company a significant modicum of success creating ...
