Jazz Articles about Various Artists

Music With A View: A Time For Love

by Jim Santella
December 17, 2003

Various Artists Concord 2003

Compiled from After Hours, Secret Heart, Ballads And Blues, Standards Of Excellence, Sabia, I Waited For You, The Shining Sea, La Familia, Lazy Afternoon, and Polarity, this program of intimate gems includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of intimacy – the scenes and places where we should be when sharing the company of a lover.

You can switch casually between “camera angles” during play. Each ...

Music With A View: Into The Evening

by Jim Santella
December 17, 2003

Various Artists Concord 2003

Compiled from Blues, Bop & Ballads, In Blue, Silent Pool, For Hamp, Red, Bags, and Cal, Sway, Bossa Nova Years, Soft And Mellow, Soul Sauce: Memories Of Cal Tjader, Blue Skies, Goodfellas, and Lotus Blossom, this program of lyrical ballads includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of the setting of the sun – a daily ritual that we too often miss out on because of our busy ...

Music With A View: Rhythm And Waves

by Jim Santella
December 15, 2003

Various Artists Concord 2003

Compiled from Concord’s Turn Up The Heat, Drive, Both Sides, Reunion, Hypnotic, California, La Samba, Keep Reminding Me, Caribbean Breeze, Come With Me, Heaven and Joyful, this program of Latin-tinged, easy listening favorites includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of the ocean’s wave movements and its mesmerizing quality. Reissued tracks from Peak Records, Concord Vista, and Concord Picante are included in this gentle, smooth jazz production.

Music With A View: Visions Of Christmas

by Jim Santella
December 15, 2003

Various Artists Concord 2003

Compiled from A Concord Jazz Christmas, Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas, Late Night Christmas Eve, White Christmas, The Charlie Byrd Christmas Album, and A Concord Jazz Christmas 2, this program of winter holiday favorites includes four “camera angles,” which portray different visual aspects of the holiday season.

You can switch casually between “camera angles” during play. Each visual accompaniment is intended to brighten your spirits in a different ...

Various Artists: Johnny

by Jim Santella
December 14, 2003

Johnny Cash has always championed the little guy who faces down the giants in his world with a mature sense of satisfaction. In his memorable musical stories, Cash tells about how corporate headquarters doesn’t know what’s going on right in their own backyards, about how the tax man and the toll taker don’t realize that the little guy has found a loophole, about how someone was unfaithful to someone else for just a little bit, and about how the prison ...

One Night With Blue Note

by Jim Santella
December 13, 2003

One Night With Blue Note Blue Note 2003

This February 22, 1985 concert at Town Hall in New York featured a cast of jazz artists who’ve become legendary. Blue Note has inserted informative narrative documentary between numbers, so that the concert now comes to us up close and personal with added information to make it all come together in our own living rooms, dens, and home offices. The camera shots come in from varying ...

Various Artists: Savoy Christmas Blues

by Rex Butters
December 7, 2003

Savoy’s Christmas anthology draws on recordings from the '40s and '50s, swinging wildly in mood from the sacred to the profane. The eclectic mix includes novelty tunes, straight readings of traditional songs, and four very different interpretations of “White Christmas,” ranging from the disposable Meltones version to a crucial live performance by Charlie Parker with Kenny Dorham and Max Roach.

Johnny Otis welcomes the listener from 1950, backing Little Esther on “Far Away Christmas Blues.” Esther smolders ...