STAFF PUBLISHERS rant ‘n’ roll by Mike Greenblatt DIANE CASAZZA CHRIS FARINAS SPECIAL PROJECTS PUBLISHER MARK SCEURMAN Rattle And Hum Not Dead Yet MANAGING EDITOR The 10 originals on the 66-minute Pay For It On The I must admit to having given up on the standard piano JENNA ROMAINE CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Other Side (McCannic Music) by Wisconsin trio within jazz years ago. I mean, how much more could JAMES CAMPION guitarist/composer Pete McCann, 52, his sixth album, possibly be extrapolated from a format that reached its MIKE GREENBLATT puts jazz-rock fusion in a blender with instrumental pop, peak in the 1980s? It all started to sound like a rehash. TIM LOUIE JOHN PFEIFFER swing and world music. His quintet rattles and hums with I need horns! Enter Detroit drummer/composer Henry PATRICK SLEVIN elastic electricity. McCann wears his influences on his Conerway III, now the man in-demand on the drum stool CONTRIBUTING WRITERS DANIEL ALLEVA AMANDA FERRANTE BATISTA MICHAEL CAVACINI RACHAEL CICCONE CHARLEY CRESPO SAMANTHA CURRELI ALESSANDRA DONNELLY AMY EBELING GLYN EMMERSON ROBERT GLUCK ALISON GRAVES JESSICA GUICA adequate governmental response to the devastation STEPHANIE GUIDA caused by last year’s Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, West DOKTOR JOHN JENNIFER KAJZER Side Story Reimagined (Jazzheads), by Bobby Sanabria’s MORGAN MAGID Multiverse Big Band, is a two-disc Latin Jazz interpretation RYAN MCGRATH GREGG McQUEEN that swings and sizzles with percolating percussion. GIORGIO MUSTICA S R E Recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City, VERONICA RAJADNYA N N BRYAN REESMAN O drummer Sanabria -- influenced as much by Buddy C DANIELLE SARIYAN S I N Rich and Louis Bellson as he is by Tito Puente and Machito ANDREA SEASTRAND N E HAL SELZER D -- has taken 20 songs, including “Jet Song”, “Gym Scene Y MARIA SHIELDS B Y Blues Mambo”, “Maria”, “Cool”. “The Rumble” and “One LEANNE ACIZ STANTON B in New York City, who, with pianist Kenny Banks, Jr. and O DANI TAUBER T O Hand One Heart” into the height of bombast like what Lin- OLIVIA TAUBNER H bassist Kevin Smith, have self-released created a debut P -- With Pride For Dignity -- that’s almost startling in Manuel Miranda did when he directed “West Side Story” CARMEN TRIOLA and made the entire second act in Spanish. No vocals STEVE TRUGLIO sleeve: John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, John Scofield how far and wide a piano/bass/drums presentation TINA WHELSKI here, just the snap, crackle and pop. KAM WILLIAMS and Pat Metheny. With alto sax, piano, organ, clavinet, can still be. From stride to gospel, from bop to swing, LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER accordion, bass and drums, McCann weaves a delicate from ballads to surprises, these three get down on originals MARK WEISS web through his intricate arrangements yet can blitz when plus creative covers of Duke Ellington’s 1940 “Cottontail”, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS the track calls for such. The highlight has to be “Nikhil.” Phineas Newborn, Jr.’s 1958 “Sugar Ray” and Jimmy KELSEY AYRES Greatest Living American GLYN EMMERSON It’s a tribute to the sound of India, in the person of classical Heath’s 1964 “Gingerbread Boy”, proving that the NADINE JOY sitar player Nikhil Banerjee [1931-1986], a piece that piano/bass/drums jazz trio format ain’t dead yet. Songwriter? MICHELE TERRY Bob Dylan Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances From STEVE TRUGLIO veers psychopathically between major and minor keys, APRIL WORONOWICZ buoyed by Henry Hey’s tumultuous squeezebox, a drum The Copyright Collections (Columbia/Legacy) shows The EDITORIAL INTERN ’n’ bass drone and a rampaging John O’Gallagher alto Bard in the flush of first legerdemain. We know now he DEBRA KATE SCHAFER Juvenile Delinquency admits to using folk music as a stepping stone to being a ADVERTISING DIRECTOR solo. Bravo! MICHELLE DENHOLTZ For examples of teenaged youth in rebellious turmoil, rock star but that in no way makes these early performances PRINT ART DIRECTOR you can go see the classic 1955 film, The Blackboard of his world-changing folk phase no less profound, powerful, ANGELA TEIXEIRA Jungle, or you can listen to the mighty compilation That’ll poignant and damn revolutionary. PRODUCTION DESIGNER Best Boz Yet Flat Git It! Volume #31: Rockabilly & Rock ’n’ Roll From DEB KERRIGAN Those who complain about his voice now should hear CIRCULATION-MARKETING Although I’ve loved his 1976 Silk Degrees for 42 years, The Vaults Of Colonial Records (Bear Family Productions). him then. It was perfect. An outgrowth of the Woody Guthrie PHIL FIUMANO singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs, 74, might have outdone sensibility (dig up Woody Guthrie’s “Old Man Trump” song BRUCE HOLLAND CHARLES PIZZUTA himself with the absolutely perfecto Out Of The Blues if you’re interested in knowing where our fake president ANDREW LAZZAROTTI (Concord Records). It completes a self-styled blues trilogy got his virulent racism). “Masters Of War” seethes with TED SHIKO MARKETING MANAGER after Memphis (2013) and A Fool To Care (2015). It’s resentment and righteous hatred. “The Lonesome Death SERENA CASAZZA interesting to note that Scaggs got his ‘60s start in The Of Hattie Carroll”, ripped from the headlines, shines a light MARKETING DESIGN CO-ORDINATOR into the murder of an innocent black bartender. I remember BRIANNA AGUIRRE hearing “Chimes Of Freedom” the night we stood in the MARKETING ASSISTANT JACQUELYN PETRILLO 2008 rain to vote for the first black president. Now the song SENIOR DESIGNER gives me goosebumps. “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” DENNIS RAKAUCKAS is a rap forerunner with line after line a knock-out punch. AWM DESIGNERS PETER BREITFELDER I once played it for my young hip-hop-loving son back in CHARLIE PLATOW the day and he said, “Gee dad, that dude’s pretty good.” ERIC STEINERT Dylan sings ‘em all with fervor and conviction. Who knew DESIGN INTERNS PAUL CALABRESE he was playing a role? 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