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Marcus Miller: M2 (M-Squared)
by Dave Hughes
For well over two decades, Marcus Miller has firmly established himself on the jazz/funk recording scene as funk bassist extraordinare and producer for the likes of Miles Davis, David Sanborn, and Chaka Khan. He’s also proficient on a wide variety of instruments, including bass clarinet, keyboards, saxophones, and vibraphone, and is a competent composer to boot. ...
Various: Hellhound on My Trail: Songs of Robert Johnson
by C. Michael Bailey
This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. I have mixed feelings about a tribute disc to a phantom. Robert Johnson's craft is as essential to world culture as Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, the Koran, and Citizen Kane. In my experience, tribute discs contain one or two performances that are over the top ...
Benny Green: Green's Blues
by Bill Donaldson
Benny Green's talent is such that he can adapt to any situation, as proven by the ultimate testing grounds of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Betty Carter's group, not to mention Ray Brown's trio--all of which Green joined. As the aggressive hard bop pianist or the unpredictable Carter's accompanist who slips from one thought to the ...
Steve Turre: TNT
by AAJ Staff
Now that he has signed with Telarc, Steve Turre seems to have been freed to follow his instincts in recording the kind of music that has bubbling within him for over 30 years. Even though Turre continues to advance the music, he unfailingly pays tribute to his mentors along the way, those mentors being primarily Rahsaan ...
George Shearing: Back To Birdland
by AAJ Staff
Back To Birdland is aptly named. The man most closely associated with the club returned, not to the original Birdland on Broadway, but to the newly reconstituted club on 44th Street. And George Shearing--whose mastery of the piano gained heightened appreciation after he left his might-as-well-be-patented quintet format for vibrant trios, memorable vocal partnerships, exceptional duos ...
Freddy Cole: Rio de Janeiro Blue
by AAJ Staff
The confluence of Freddy Cole's style with the appeal of Brazilian music seems such a natural that one wonders why it didn't happen before. But the confluence finally does happen on Rio de Janeiro Blue as Cole elucidates the connection between tunes from the American songbook and the emotional significance of Brazilian tunes.That connection, ...
Marcus Miller: M2
by Dave Nathan
For his first studio album since 1964, Marcus Miller has laid out a program of nine originals and five jazz standards. Seeking to be the new Rahaan Roland Kirk, Miller plays a large number of instruments. I guess he plays them well because it's difficult to single out any through the electronic sheets of sounds being ...
Oscar Peterson: Oscar's Ballads
by AAJ Staff
With Oscar's Ballads, we are reminded that, behind Oscar Peterson's blazing swing--with his furious pace that launched a thousand riffs, not to mention hundreds of imitators--Peterson's solo construction and compositional talent rely on logically appealing and personalized modulations. Underlying his signature technique, Peterson lays down a foundation of harmonic richness and internal chord movement that usually ...
Marcus Miller: M2
by AAJ Staff
Marcus Miller is one of those crossover artists whose influence is felt in numerous media, including movie sound tracks like Boomerang and Rush Hour. Lest we forget all of the innovations that Miller has created, his new M-Squared album enumerates in a soulful and electronically enhanced style the multitudinous elements that comprise his immediately identifiable sound.
Various: Jazz Live From New York
by Dave Nathan
What a bargain this 2-cd set is! More than two hours of music performed by Telarc's outstanding stable of jazz recording artists, all for the price of a single album. And the record company's stable reads like an honor roll of contemporary jazz performers, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Sweets Edison and Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, James ...
