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Larry Schneider Quartet: Ali Girl
by C. Michael Bailey
So Much Good Jazz! I have enjoyed a spate of exceptional recordings crossing my desk recently. Several Steeplechase recordings have been in this spate. Ali Girl is a 1997 quartet recording led by multi-reedist Larry Schneider. Schneider is a journeyman saxophonist who has played stints with Horace Silver and the Charles Mingus Band. Generally concentrating on ...
LeeAnn Ledgerwood: Transition
by C. Andrew Hovan
The native of a very small town in Ohio, pianist Lee Ann Ledgerwood is part of an ever growing contingency of extremely talented jazz musicians of the female persuasion, another recent name that comes to mind being trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. Although she's been on the New York scene since 1982, this is one of Ledgerwood's rare ...
Tony Purrone: Six-String Delight
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of today's unsung heroes of the jazz guitar, Tony Purrone got his first break at the age of 23, when he was featured with saxophonist Jimmy Heath's band. After spending 17 years with Heath, Purrone decided to break out on his own and his two appearances on SteepleChase with Heath led to his own contract ...
Larry Schneider: Ali Girl
by C. Andrew Hovan
Part of a ever-growing number of jazz artists who fall into a category that can be generally referred to as the “lost generation," for lack of a better phrase, 47- year-old saxophonist Larry Schneider is too old to be considered a young lion and not old enough yet to be properly referred to as an “elder ...
Lee Konitz/Ted Brown: Dig-It
by Mark Corroto
Lee Konitz and Ted Brown have lived many lives since they played together as students and sidemen of pianist Lennie Tristano more than fifty years ago. Konitz started with Claude Thornhill’s Orchestra before working with Gil Evans and Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet. His familiar alto saxophone was featured in what many say was ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free Jazz and Avant-garde were the same evolutionary answer to Bebop that Bebop was to Swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre’s harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman’s (pre- Free Jazz ) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free jazz and avant-garde styles were the same evolutionary answer to bebop that bebop was to swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre's harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman's (pre-Free Jazz) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. Miles ...
Steve Slagle Plays Monk
By Steve Slagle
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Think of One, Worry Later, Ugly Beauty, Criss Cross, Jackie-ing, Monk, Light Blue, Bemsha Swing, Epistrophy (60:44)
