Of all the bands that made the news/broke the mold/made the biggest splashes in the heyday/glory days of the first wave of Fusion (1969-1974), the UK outfit Soft Machine…
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06 Jan
Latest Outlook by The Stryker / Slagle Band
Saturday, 06 January 2007
Published in Straight-Ahead / Classic - CD Reviews
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The Stryker/Slagle Band is my kind o' mainstream jazz outfit - if fact, this is a modernist/progressive combo in mainstream dress. Stryker/Slagle have an immediate "swing" …
ALL THE TIME one hears of the archetypical singers - Ol' Blue Eyes, Lady Day, Ella, Anita (O'Day), Tony, Joe Williams.... all well and good, yet Chet Baker hardly ever g…
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25 May
Unicity by Edward Simon
And to think there was a time when This Writer wasn't all that excited by piano trios.... as a lad, I respected them, true, but I was always thinking, "Where's the horns…
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Anyone bemoaning jazz today because of that "dour seriousness syndrome" present in so many manifestations just needs to listen to Louis Hayes' Cannonball Legacy Band's