Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

Contents......Page 8
Introduction and Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART ONE: THE BEIGE DECADE, 1990–2000......Page 26
1 Tender Moments (JVC 1990)......Page 28
2 Front Porch Blues (Colorado 1990)......Page 32
3 Chippin' Off the Old Block (Javon Jackson)......Page 36
4 Heavy Mettle Thunder (Ronald Shannon Jackson)......Page 38
5 Go Wes, Young Man (Mark Whitfield)......Page 41
6 Jazz Danish (The Jazzpar Concert)......Page 44
7 The Glow of Doc Cheatham (JVC 1991, Part One)......Page 48
8 Miles Ahead (JVC 1991, Part Two)......Page 54
9 Benny's Brood (Rickey Woodard / Jesse Davis)......Page 57
10 The Advocate (Eddie Condon)......Page 61
11 Martin Williams, 1924–1992......Page 66
12 Grand-Lee (Lee Konitz)......Page 70
13 Swing to Black (Doc Severinsen)......Page 72
14 Lions in Summer (JVC 1992)......Page 76
15 Yin, Yang, and Noir (Oliver Lake / Charlie Haden)......Page 84
16 Always True in Her Fashion (Peggy Lee)......Page 87
17 Computer Wars (Robert Parker)......Page 91
18 Giant Step (Jackie McLean)......Page 95
19 Vivid Multitudes (The Best Jazz Records of 1992)......Page 97
20 PG-13 (Rosemary Clooney)......Page 101
21 Living Large (Bobby Watson)......Page 103
22 Gallic Swing (Stephane Grappelli)......Page 106
23 A Surprise Banquet (JVC 1993)......Page 109
24 Tremolos and Elegies (Cyrus Chestnut)......Page 116
25 The Power and the Reticence(JVC 1994)......Page 120
26 Leonard Feather, 1914–1994......Page 124
27 After the Ball (Gerry Mulligan / Maria Schneider)......Page 128
28 Redefining Dizzy (The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band / Lalo Schifrin)......Page 132
29 The Swinging Cowboy (Herb Jeffries)......Page 136
30 Festival Blues (JVC 1995)......Page 141
31 Young and Verbal (Carmen McRae)......Page 147
32 Three by Three (Tim Hagans / Dave Douglas / Rave Hargrove)......Page 150
33 Different Drummer (Modern Jazz Quartet)......Page 153
34 They Never Went Away (Big Bands)......Page 157
35 Beyond the Rudiments (The Best Jazz Records of 1995)......Page 160
36 Lost and Found (Brian Barley / Andrew Hill)......Page 165
37 Monk with Frets (Marc Ribot)......Page 168
38 The King (Benny Carter)......Page 171
39 Drum Dada (Han Bennink)......Page 181
40 On Their Own (Gerry Gibbs / Ravi Coltrane)......Page 184
41 Classic Ambition (Wynton Marsalis)......Page 187
42 Hard of Hearing (JVC 1997)......Page 190
43 = 2 (Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock)......Page 195
44 New Tunes for an Old Ax (Joe Morris)......Page 198
45 Lit at Both Ends (D.D. Jackson)......Page 201
46 They're Bo-o-o-o-xed! (The Best Reissues of 1997)......Page 204
47 Piano Men (Teddy Wilson / Lennie Tristano / Bill Evans)......Page 208
48 The Arranger's Monk (Bill Holman / T.S. Monk / Fred Hersch)......Page 211
49 Reviving the It Girls (The Boswell Sisters)......Page 215
50 Turner Classic Moves (Mark Turner)......Page 218
51 Fusions (Wayne Shorter / Odyssey)......Page 221
52 Is Everybody Happy? (Texaco–New York Jazz Festival)......Page 224
53 Requiem for a Flag-Waver (JVC 1998)......Page 228
54 The Original Dixieland One-Step (New Orleans Jazz)......Page 233
55 Rousing Rabble (JATP)......Page 236
56 Old Guys Yes, Retro Never (The Best Jazz Records of 1998)......Page 240
57 A Bottomless Well (Duke Ellington)......Page 244
58 Jaki Byard, 1922–1999......Page 247
59 Out of the Vinyl Deeps (Record Rarities)......Page 250
60 Prisoners of the Past (JVC 1999)......Page 253
61 Rapprochement (Cecil Taylor / Elvin Jones / Dewey Redman)......Page 257
62 Good Vibrations (Stefon Harris)......Page 260
63 Lester Bowie, 1941–1999......Page 263
64 The Masters Have It (The Best Jazz Records of 1999)......Page 267
65 Hammond's Best and Brightest (From Spirituals to Swing)......Page 270
66 Hipper Than Thou (Bob Dorough)......Page 273
67 Freed Jazz: Bell One (Ornette Coleman)......Page 276
68 Comeback Number Six (Lonnie Johnson)......Page 280
69 Mrs. Swing (Mildred Bailey)......Page 282
70 Saved by the Classics: Bell Two (Bell Atlantic 2000)......Page 288
71 Touring the Jazz Museum (JVC 2000)......Page 292
72 Carterology (James Carter)......Page 297
73 Zooids New and Old (Henry Threadgill / Roswell Rudd and Archie Shepp)......Page 300
74 Saturnal Sorcery (Sun Ra)......Page 304
75 The One You've Been Waiting For (Sonny Rollins)......Page 308
76 All the Things He Was (Carnegie Hall Jazz Band)......Page 311
77 Signposts of Post-history (The Best Jazz Records of 2000)......Page 315
78 Bedside Jazz (More Best Jazz Records of 2000)......Page 320
79 Parajazz (The Avant-garde)......Page 324
PART TWO: THE SECOND CENTURY, 2001–2003......Page 336
80 The Neglected King of Song (Bing Crosby)......Page 338
81 Here's the Melody (John Lewis)......Page 345
82 Over the Transom (Arnie Carruthers / Larry Vuckovich / Nicholas Hoffman / Gold Sparkle)......Page 348
83 Memorophiliac (Vijay Iyer)......Page 352
84 Weird and Forgotten Dreams (Charles Mingus / Helen Carr / Herb Jeffries / LH&R / Sarah Vaughan)......Page 354
85 A Quartet of Five (Dave Brubeck)......Page 358
86 Billy Higgins, 1936–2001......Page 364
87 Boom! (Louis Armstrong)......Page 368
88 Found and Lost (Terence Blanchard)......Page 374
89 Ladies Day (Billie Holiday)......Page 377
90 Mood Swings (Tom Harrell)......Page 387
91 Nashville (Ted Nash)......Page 391
92 Minnie the Moocher's Revenge (JVC 2001)......Page 394
93 Go Tell It on the Mountain (David S. Ware)......Page 401
94 Looking for Better Than That (Diana Krall / Jeanie Bryson / Vanessa Rubin / Etta James / Rosemary Clooney)......Page 405
95 Strictly Solalian (Martial Solal)......Page 408
96 Heir to a Secret History (Jason Moran)......Page 412
97 Master Class (Jimmy Heath)......Page 415
98 Fearless (Tony Bennett)......Page 419
99 All Around the Town (Uri Caine)......Page 423
100 Bad Haircut, Good Ragtime (Brun Campbell)......Page 426
101 Laureate (Irving Berlin)......Page 430
102 Heroes at Work ("Made in America")......Page 432
103 Brutality and Revival (The Best Jazz Records of 2001)......Page 435
104 Reissues by the Box, Singers by the Cut (More Best Jazz Records of 2001)......Page 440
105 Long Roads (Harry Belafonte)......Page 444
106 Gypsy State of Mind (Bireli Lagrene)......Page 447
107 Surviving the Marketplace (Sonny Stitt / Bobby Hackett)......Page 450
108 The Microtonal Man (Joe Maneri)......Page 454
109 Singing Cool and Hot (Cassandra Wilson / Dee Dee Bridgewater)......Page 457
110 Our Chopin (Cecil Taylor)......Page 460
111 She Writes the Songs (Abbey Lincoln)......Page 464
112 Black Arthur's Return (Arthur Blythe)......Page 467
113 Enchantment (Johnny Hodges / Rex Stewart)......Page 471
114 Continuing Education (Marian McPartland)......Page 475
115 Fully Interactive (Bill Charlap)......Page 479
116 Fetishizing the LP (Verve Miniatures)......Page 483
117 Personality (Houston Person)......Page 486
118 Postwar Jazz: An Arbitrary Roadmap (1945–2001)......Page 490
119 How Not to Broaden the Jazz Canvas (Carnegie Hall Jazz Band)......Page 513
120 Where's Waldo? (JVC 2002)......Page 517
121 Almost Peas in a Pod (Tony Bennett / Sarah Vaughan)......Page 522
122 Lionel Hampton, 1908–2002......Page 526
123 Genius (Charlie Christian)......Page 530
124 At the Summit (Sonny Rollins)......Page 532
125 Purely Piano (Ethan Iverson / Vijay Iyer / Jason Moran)......Page 536
126 Point Counter Point (Dave Holland)......Page 539
127 Christmas Gilt (Ella Fitzgerald / Johnny Smith / Grant Green / Others)......Page 543
128 Jazzman of the Year: 2002 (Clark Terry)......Page 546
129 Everything That Rises Must Converge (The Best Jazz Records of 2002)......Page 550
130 Hot (Louis Armstrong)......Page 554
131 Out of the Territories (Steven Bernstein)......Page 565
132 Aqui Se Habla Espanol (David Murray)......Page 568
133 French Music, Not Necessarily Freedom Music (Louis Sclavis)......Page 572
134 Equilateral Chamber Jazz (The Bad Plus)......Page 576
135 Satchuated (Louis Armstrong)......Page 579
136 The Academy's Pulitzer (Jazz and the Pulitzer Prize)......Page 583
137 Savooooy Be Gooood (Jazz Jive)......Page 587
138 Swashbuckler (Erroll Garner)......Page 590
139 Deep Easy Listening (Jim Hall / Cyrus Chestnut)......Page 594
140 Masters of Time (Roy Haynes / Max Roach)......Page 598
141 Ornette and Others (JVC 2003)......Page 602
142 Overview and Meditation (Art Ensemble of Chicago)......Page 608
143 All Duke's Chillun Got Melody (Gerry Mulligan)......Page 610
144 Midlife Bloom (Dianne Reeves)......Page 613
145 Flee as a Bird (Weather Bird)......Page 615
146 How Come Jazz Isn't Dead? (Music's Four Stations)......Page 617
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