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Various: Festival in Havana
by Derek Taylor
Back in the heyday of Mose Asch’s Folkways Records in the late 1940s there was a certain academic bent to the collection and preservation of indigenous forms of music. Teams of folklorists, funded by research branches of prominent universities, hit the roads or flew to locales far and wide, ungainly recording apparatuses in tow, in admirable ...
Various: Bop Lives!
by Ken Hohman
While 50 years of music from Delmark Records is a reason for any jazz or blues fan to celebrate, Bop Lives! is the kind of low budget sampler you would expect from a lesser label. It appears that all eight tracks were chosen by blindfold and that no special attention was paid to chronology. In fact, ...
Various: Vision Fest
by Jerry D'Souza
The Vision Festival, held annually in New York, brings together some of the most forward thinking performers in jazz. Last year the festival was held mainly at The Center at Old St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. The performances at this venue make up the music on this CD and the accompanying DVD. There is a lot of ...
Various: VisionFest- VisionLive
by Rex Butters
The 8th Annual Vision Festival began on May 20 in New York City, and just in time to show the world what it’s missing, Thirsty Ear released a collection of luminous performances from the previous year's event. Self-described as “art with a most decidedly disciplined disregard for tradition and boundaries,” these proceedings were last documented on ...
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 ...
Various: Primitive Piano
by Derek Taylor
The title of this disc is something of a misnomer, but one with the best intentions. Recorded in 1957 by pianist Erwin Helfer and jazz historian William Russell, it presents a modest sampling of blues and boogie-woogie practitioners. Listening reveals music that is ‘primitive’ in a manner more akin to John Fahey’s breed of Primitive Guitar. ...
Various: Viva Cubop 3
by Jerry D'Souza
A rich lore of Latin jazz remains to be mined, and this collection offers a great lead-in. Cuban music takes off on different tangents, giving it a wide body encompassing a richness of sound, a munificence of rhythm and an abundance of emotion. The collection here evokes these images. It gets off to ...
Various: Pure Cool
by AAJ Staff
Jazz is surely the coolest type of music in the world and, on this new Blue Note compilation, some of the masters of the idiom demonstrate why. Opening with the subtle smoke of Chet Baker’s opening take on Rodgers and Hart’s “My Funny Valentine" (also featured on Chet Baker Sings for Lovers, which I also highly ...
Various: Blues for a Rotten Afternoon
by AAJ Staff
From the ain’t nothin’ more authentic dirge of Luther “Guitar Jr." Johnson’s “So Mean to Me" to the barrelhouse cluckin’ of Marty Grebb’s “Hen House," this blatant copy of Joel Dorn’s “Jazz for..." series combines true tales of loss with rather peppy pleas for love, wealth and the other anti-ingredients of the blues. In true blues, ...
