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Z: Bad Guys
by Mark Corroto
Face it: jazz will never again regain the audience (or power) it held sixty, fifty, or even forty years ago. The giants--Monk, Mingus, and Coltrane--are gone. Sure, the listeners who read these reviews are moved by the music, but the kids in the streets are marching to a different beat... literally.
We temper our enthusiasm for this music, sharing it with like-minded listeners. Sometimes when a hard-hitting disc like Bad Guys comes out, you are tempted to drop ...
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by Elliott Simon
Internationally renowned bassist, composer, and musical director Zé Eduardo has been a seminal figure and a long-time fixture on the Portuguese jazz landscape. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the end of Portuguese rightist rule, he pays tribute to the songs of José Afonso with A Jazzar No Zeca. To begin to comprehend the immense influence of singer/songwriter José Zeca Afonso (1929-1987) on the Portuguese musical mindset, an American would have to consider the combined significance ...
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