Jazz Articles

The Yardbirds: Live! Blueswailing July '64

by Colin Fleming
April 9, 2005

The Yardbirds Live! Blueswailing July '64 Castle 2003

As advice to anyone building a collection of live recordings, one could scarcely go wrong with the acknowledged classics--sets by Otis Redding, the Who, the Stones' Get YerYa-Ya's Out! Combined with a few esoteric items--the Shadows of Knight at theCellar Club, the Stooges' last show, and Hank Williams' Health and Happiness programs, one can actually span a range of genres and styles, charting how one era, ...

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra: The Very Best of NYJO

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

This new four–disc boxed set raises to twenty the number of albums in our library by Great Britain’s outrageously talented National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and a strong case could be made that every one of them represents The Very Best of NYJO, as nothing that orchestra does is less than spectacular. That is certainly the case here as NYJO departs on Discs I and II from its customary practice of focusing largely on new and original compositions to survey the ...