| | Jamie Baum Moving Forward, Standing Still CD Jamie Baum Discography of CDs
Jamie Baum: Jamie Baum; Doug Yates (bass clarinet, alto saxophone); Drew Gress (double bass); George Colligan, Jeff Hirshfield, Ralph Alessi, Tom Varner.
Personnel: Jamie Baum (flute, alto flute); Doug Yates (bass clarinet, alto saxophone); Ralph Alessi (trumpet, flugelhorn); Tom Varner (French horn); George Colligan (piano, electric piano); Jeff Hirshfield (drums).
Audio Mixer: Paul Wickliffe.
Liner Note Author: Frank Tafuri.
Author: Igor Stravinsky.
Editor: Paul Wickliffe.
Photographer: Frank Tafuri.
A huge step forward from her already impressive 1997 debut, Jamie Baum's third album as a leader is simply outstanding. Baum's mixture of influences ranges from modern classical composers like Béla Bartók, whose commingling of Eastern European folk melodies and diaphanous romanticism is wittily updated on the punningly titled "Bar Talk," to '50s cool jazz masters like Gil Evans and Dave Brubeck. The opening "All Roads Lead to You" combines the two strains, in an unforced updating of the now largely moribund subgenre known as third stream. Baum was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, and her music occasionally recalls that of NECM faculty members Ran Blake and Jaki Byard, but with a livelier rhythmic sense, best heard on "In the Journey," which sets a cyclical main figure that would not sound out of place on a '70s Philip Glass record against a funky Latin beat. That sense of musical freedom, an unwillingness to limit herself simply to staid through-composed pieces, post-bop jazz classicism, or free improv experimentalism, but to mix and match the elements that suit her needs on a piece-by-piece basis, is what sets Baum apart from many of her peers, and what makes Moving Forward, Standing Still an immensely satisfying, exciting listen. ~ Stewart Mason Moving Forward, Standing Still Music Jamie Baum Moving Forward, Standing Still Songs Moving Forward, Standing Still Review
GuidelinesRemember to focus your comments on Jamie Baum Moving Forward, Standing Still CD. Check our review guidelines for specific details regarding customer review policy. To submit your review, please fill out the above form and click "Submit Review." A staff member will then verify your review meets our guidelines. Upon approval, your review will be published within a few days. Please do not use this form to comment on web site errors or for order related questions. If you have concerns of this nature, please contact customer service by filling out this form.
Purchase Moving Forward, Standing Still CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Ted Brown Free Spirit CD (1989) (Import) Netherlands
Moving Forward, Standing Still
 $16.39 
| | David Murray We Is: Live At The Bop Shop CD (2004)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$12.89 
| | Miles Davis Cellar Door Sessions 1970 CDs (2005) Remastered; Box Set; Special Edition
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$87.89 
| | Thelonious Monk At Carnegie Hall CD (2005)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$12.89 
| | Bobby Hutcherson Head On CD (1971) Bonus Tracks
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$10.39
| | Richard Galliano Concerts Inedits CDs (2000) (Import) France
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$32.85
Includes liner notes by Patrice Trapier.
SOLO:
Solo performer: Richard Galliano (accordion).
Engineer: Gianni Grassilli.
Recorded live at the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival, Museo Emilio Greco, Orvieto, Italy on December 3, 1998.
DUO:
Personnel: Richard Galliano (accordion); Michel Portal (clarinet).
Recorded live at NDR Radio Studios, Hamburg, Germany on October 29, 1998.
TRIO:
Personnel: Richard Galliano (accordion); Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark (bass); Daniel Humair (drums).
Engineer: Emmanuel Guyot.
Recorded live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, Montreaux, Switzerland on July 10, 1996.
For those unfamiliar with accordionist Richard Galliano, this set is a rare kind of introduction to the man who, inspired by the late Astor Piazzolla, redeemed the accordion as an instrument for improvisation. This three-CD collection will delight fans, all of whom have favorite settings in which to hear Galliano play. There are three of them here: solo, duo, and trio. The solo set is perhaps the most revelatory: one complete concert in Orvieto, Italy, at the foot of the mountains on New Year's Eve, 1998. Here is where Galliano's particular genius and discipline reveal their magic. This is how his New Musette form of music was developed -- playing to himself in a mirror. The swinging harmonic phrases and melodic lines, at sometimes dizzying tempos, are entrancing as he stops and starts on a dime, gliding ...
| | Emo Philips E = Mo2 CD (2005) (Import) Canada
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$15.95
| | Billy Crystal Presents: The Milt Gabler Story CD (2005)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$15.99
| | Lionel Hampton Jiving The Blues CD (2006) (Import)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$13.65
| | Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Digs Paris CD (2006) (Import) Import
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$16.39
On February 9, 1953, Dizzy Gillespie played a live concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris that was recorded, though when excerpts were first released, there were only enough used to fill one 10" LP. This two-disc set not only includes the entire 84-minute show (which actually fills just over one disc) for the first time on CD, it also adds 16 studio tracks that Gillespie cut in Paris that same month, as well as eight Gillespie-less studio tracks (also done in Paris in February 1953) by three of his sidemen, working under the name the Wade Legge Trio. It's the live Salle Pleyel set that's the main feature, presented here, according to the liner notes, in an "unedited remastered version of that evening's events with a number of butchered solos fully restored plus the addition of [alto and baritone saxophonist] Bill Graham's previously discarded showcase "'I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance,'" for which Dizzy made a rare appearance on piano."
This might not have been Gillespie's best band, or Gillespie's very best period; those honors probably belong to the work he did in the mid- to late '40s. Still, Gillespie close to his best -- as he is here -- is very good indeed, as is the sound quality of this concert recording. The program mixes some of the more well-known tunes identified with Dizzy ("Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be," "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac") with some standards (including no less than four songs written or co-written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin). On one of those Gershwin tunes, "Embraceable You," there's also a surprise vocal by Sarah Vaughan -- not a member of Gillespie's band at the time, but a fellow jazz star "who just happened to be in the building," according to the liner notes.
The first ten of the 16 Gillespie-led studio tracks -- in which ...
| | Spencer Durham I Wonder Why CD (2006)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$7.99
| | Bill Quintet Mchenry Sonic Pressure CD (2007) (Import)
Moving Forward, Standing Still
$23.65
|
|
|
155114 
buttons below to play song samples
Adobe Flash
Email a Friend
