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That's Funky

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Mack the Knife [Funky Version]; Moanin'; Sidewinder; Mississippi Windows; Work Song; Mortat [Modern Bebop Version]; Blues March.

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Benny Golson Quintet: That's Funky

Read "That's Funky" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Looking back past the rule of Parliament to the age of Horace Silver, Benny Golson’s That's Funky pays tribute to Louis Armstrong through two renditions of his popular favorite “Mack the Knife." While the opening “funky version" starts off a bit sluggish and includes some pinched soloing by Nat Adderley, Monty Alexander’s firm comps make it ...

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Grand Hotel Europa

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: East of the Sun; Grand Hotel Europa; Dolphin Dance; Sakura Samba; Once I Loved; In Another Moment; Island Dance; Caso de Verao; How Deep is the Ocean; You Are Too Beautiful.

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Nigel Clark: Grand Hotel Europa

Read "Grand Hotel Europa" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Here, Scotsman, Nigel Clark utilizes a nylon string acoustic guitar for a series of predominately up-tempo standards and original compositions. Besides being influenced by the great Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt - the artist rounds out his overall attack with rippling single note leads, and classically tinged, flamenco-style expressionism. Clark also utilizes space and depth in concert ...

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Street Culture

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Street Culture; The Netster; Bay Street Blues; In My Own Time; A Conversation with Ibach; Settlin’ In; Ko-Gals; Adrian’s Song; Street Culture (radio track).

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Eyes of the Elders

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wee; Village Council Interlude 1; Dance of the Nile; Frozen Mist; Eyes of the Elders; Village Council Interlude 2; Harold’s Theme; Nostalgia in Times Square; Village Council Interlude 3; Matriarch; Rites of Passage; South Side Samba; Wise One.

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More Jazz Takes on Joni Mitchell

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Woodstock; Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter; San Diego Holiday; Off Night Back Street; Walk This Way; The Silky Veils of Ardor; In France, They Kiss on Main Street; The Ladies of the Canyon; Black Crow; Wayne Swirled; Vibeca; Woodstock (radio version).

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One Day, Forever

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Day Forever, Blue Walk, Killer Joe, Are You Real?, Sad To Say, Out Of The Past, Blues Alley, Along Came Betty, On Gossamer Wings.

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Paul Tobey: Street Culture

Read "Street Culture" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Paul Tobey's first Arkadia CD seems to be significant in several ways.From the label's perspective, it represents an extension of its earlier documentation of and rejoicing in the music of already-established jazz musicians who lacked a recording contract-seemingly, an incomprehensible oversight. Legends like Dr. Billy Taylor, Benny Golson, Joanne Brackeen and Dave Liebman were ...

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Benny Golson: One Day, Forever

Read "One Day, Forever" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Benny Golson’s latest Arkadia release, One Day, Forever, arose from a taping of some of Golson’s previous band members from the Jazztet: Art Farmer and Curtis Fuller. At the end of a European tour, they were so rushed they that they didn’t record long enough to fill an entire CD. Arkadia owner Bob Karcy kept the ...


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