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Jazmin
By Ari Ambrose
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Jazmin/ When Your Lover Has Gone/ Ila/ Along Came Betty/ Dollar Shot/ Baubles, Bangles and
Beads/ Who Knows.
Inside Chicago, Volume 3
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Blues Walk/ You and the Night and the Music/ Just You Just Me/ A Night In
Tunisia/ Star Eyes/ Blue Moon/ What Is This Thing Called Love.
Duke Jordan: Flight to Norway
by Derek Taylor
Jazz pianists in the era of Monk and Powell faced an almost Sisyphean task when it came to currying popularity with the public. These two doyens of the instrument cast a nimbus of influence so wide that even luminaries like Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols were subsumed in their shadows. Despite being present during the birthing ...
Martin Jacobsen: Current State
by Derek Taylor
Steeplechase has long been in the business of giving young talent a shot. The label's roster is brimming with well-established, and sometimes legendary, names right along with players who are only just beginning to make their marks. Tenor saxophonist Martin Jacobsen certainly falls into the latter category, a young Danish man seeking his fortune in the ...
Various: Jam Session, Volume 5
by Derek Taylor
The Danish Steeplechase imprint has long recognized the fertile dynamics of jam sessions, fronting the resources for many in its roster of players to convene in just such supportive surroundings. Volumes 5 and 6 in the continuing series offer up vernal combinations and surprises while upholding producer Nils Winther’s credo of “positively no rehearsal.” Volume 5 ...
Various: Jam Session, Volume 6
by Derek Taylor
Volume 6 of Steeplechase's jam session series adopts the more familiar framework of saxophones, brass and rhythm, but still relies on the element of the surprise in its solo statements. With a songbook of only four compositions, the tracks are considerably longer and allow for more loquacity on the part of the players. George Colligan is ...
Brad Goode & Von Freeman: Inside Chicago, Volume 4
by Derek Taylor
Steeplechase seems to have stepped up the pace on its anthology of concert recordings chosen from trumpeter Brad Goode’s exhaustive tape cache. This fourth volume comes just months after the release of the third. Listeners outside the Chicago loop are perhaps less likely to have heard of Goode, but his co-pilot in the front line should ...
Don Friedman: My Foolish Heart
by Derek Taylor
Many modern jazz fans consider the 1960s as the creative apogee of the music. The abundance of top-flight musicians, coupled with a near continuous stream of boundary breaking innovations, made for a creatively explosive combination. The downside to this artistic boon was that many high caliber conceptualists got lost in the deluge.A case could ...
Ari Ambrose Quartet: Jazmin
by Derek Taylor
So-called Young Lions seem pretty toothless these days. Wynton’s playing sideman gigs at the Village Vanguard, a venue he once lorded over (see the exemplary box set on Columbia), and cats like Nicholas Payton and Joshua Redman have largely fallen off the radar of public consciousness. The Zeitgeist seems ripe for new contenders and tenor player ...
Lee Konitz & Matt Wilson: Gong With Wind Suite
by Derek Taylor
In the context of improvised music, few are as adept as Lee Konitz at flying under the critical radar. Based on his longevity alone the man should have a university jazz department named after him- never mind that said career has been marked by an almost uniform standard of excellence. From his early days with the ...
