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Buddy Rich and his Band: The Lost Tapes
by Ty Cumbie
Buddy Rich The Lost Tapes Light Year Entertainment 2005 The hyperbole about Buddy Rich can get pretty deep. He's commonly referred to as the best drummer ever. This is much like granting Sinatra King of Crooners status - for many this brash supremism is based on a standard of style ...
Quartier Du Faisan; Flamingos
by Ty Cumbie
Some music frustrates stylistic pigeonholing. Max Nagl's is not that kind, but just the opposite, flitting from style to style with such facility and straight-faced fidelity that, in the end, it almost eludes categorization by simultaneously hugging several categories nearly to death. A steady gaze, however, makes no error: this is jazz. One ...
Christian Pincock: Reflections of the City
by Ty Cumbie
Tasty melodies, strong arrangements and capable blowing are the main assets of this 2004 recording by Christian Pincock's quintet. The trombonist leads a young but seasoned-sounding group with solid valve trombone work and a book of pleasant modern jazz tunes that range from gently crooning ballads to slow-boiling jams. Pincock is known by ...
Magic Numbers / The Distance
by Ty Cumbie
A new pair of releases teams New York edge-cutters with their north-of-the-border counterparts. Quinsin Nachoff Magic Numbers Songlines 2006 Toronto-based reed player Quinsin Nachoff has one foot in jazz performance and the other in classical composition. While this combination can sometimes lead to a musical no-man's ...
4inObjects / Bright
by Ty Cumbie
4inObjects 4inObjects Yeah Yeah 2006 4inObjects' debut recording introduces a full-bodied new voice in jazz singing, backed up by a superb band studded with some of the most talented players to be found anywhere. Yoon Sun Choi's singing is strong and direct. She has good ...
Spooky Actions: Quartet for the End of Time
by Ty Cumbie
The young Olivier Messiaen famously composed and premiered “Quartet for the End of Time in 1940-41 as a prisoner of the Nazis during World War II. One can apply just about as much meaningful drama to this story as one wants. It has even been suggested that Messiaen defeated the Nazis, in spirit at least, with ...
Gary Hassay & Ellen Christi: Tribute to Paradise
by Ty Cumbie
Jazz artists who adhere strictly to a free improvising agenda are generally doomed to sacrifice wider recognition. Here are two perfect examples: Ellen Christi is among the finest jazz vocalists in New York. She's made a lovely, intimate duo recording with Gary Hassay, a saxophonist who has all the technique of his best contemporaries, plus a ...
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius
by Ty Cumbie
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (10th Anniversary Edition)Bill Milkowski Backbeat Books 2005 Very rarely an exceptional artist emerges, dramatically altering the possibilitites in music. Jaco Pastorius was one of these, as Bill Milkowski's book (updated from the 1995 first edition) on the electric ...
Trio X: Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen: Moods: Playing with the Elements
by Ty Cumbie
I'll bet anyone $50 that the wonderful multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee could play beautifully on an old length of PVC pipe. Any takers? You'd lose. I've seen him do it, and there were at least thirty other witnesses. Neither PVC nor any other sort of plumbing material is listed on this Trio X release, and silver-haired tunes ...
Earl Howard: 5 Saxophone Solos
by Ty Cumbie
Saxophonist Earl Howard's solo CD, released on Tom Buckner's wonderful Mutable Music, reveals a quirky command of the instrument and ideas that defy easy analysis. For five fearless intervals, Howard publicly probes a private realm of sound. The results are almost always far from unlovely. Throughout there's an undertone of antipathy--and, paradoxically, a ...
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