Not knowing what other musical presentations were being offered on the QE II’s Nov. 1999 transatlantic voyage, it nevertheless may be assumed that catching a … Read More “Henry Johnson Quartet: An Evening At Sea”
Best known to jazz historians and record collectors as lead altoman Earl Warren’s replacement in Count Basie’s 1943 to ’47 band, Preston Love, since then … Read More “Preston Love: Omaha Blues”
Global jazz-fusion might be a convenient term to use in reference to at least some of the music that altoman T. K. Blue offers on … Read More “T.K. Blue: Eyes of the Elders”
Although the rampant romanticism that suffuses tenorman Allen’s balladeering may not meet the imperatives of contemporary improvisation that avant-gardists have set for our music, so … Read More “Harry Allen: Love Songs Live!”
A contemporary of Rollins, Mobley and Trane, tenorman Buck Hill, of Washington, D.C., managed to elude national fame for decades by remaining a day-job-bound family … Read More “Buck Hill: Uh Huh! Live at Montpelier”
Followers of the Nagel-Heyer label know what to expect from this high quality, amazingly consistent German firm-hot, live, combo-jam performances by some of the best … Read More “George Masso Sextet: C’est Magnifique!”
Satch Plays Fats is rightfully judged, along with Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy, as of one of the two most compelling albums that the Armstrong … Read More “Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats”
Satchmo the Great comes largely from the soundtrack of an eponymous TV documentary coproduced and narrated by Edward R. Murrow. With the New Orleans-born swing … Read More “Louis Armstrong: Satchmo the Great”
Recorded in Amsterdam, Milan, Hollywood and New York, the performances on Ambassador Satch are largely of the same order as those on Satchmo the Great, … Read More “Louis Armstrong: Ambassador Satch”
On this unusual recording, we find two widely experienced North American jazzmen, tenorman Rich Perry and pianist Harold Danko, embracing nine pieces by Brazilian composers … Read More “Rich Perry/Harold Danko: Cancoes do Brasil”
In 1943, when Ben Webster first heard Charlie Parker play the tenor, he is reported to have said, “That horn ain’t s’posed to sound that … Read More “Nick Brignola: All Business”
While some of his sons have received more than considerable attention from both the jazz press and other forms of media, the regrettable fact is … Read More “Ellis Marsalis: Duke in Blue”
Although endowed with a full, rounded sound, good intonation, and chops to spare, trumpeter Eddie Henderson had the misfortune to enter the business at a … Read More “Eddie Henderson: Reemergence”
The first American release by New York-based, Russian-born pianist and composer/arranger Nick Levinovsky, this program of six originals and two standards, a swinging “My Favorite … Read More “Nick Levinovsky Big Band: Listen Up!”