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Jaki Byard: Family Man
by Jim Santella
Named for his family members, several movements from Jaki Byard’s “Family Suite" relate the deep affection the pianist harbored for his home and family. Byard made his decision early on in his career to work close to home rather than travel. Recorded in 1978, long out of print, but reissued last month for the first time ...
Homesick James: Got to Move
by Ed Kopp
Homesick James was well past his 80th birthday when he recorded Got To Move in 1994. The CD features robust electric numbers and down-to-earth acoustic tunes. The latter hark back to Homesick’s early ramblin’ days, while the former reflect his experiences with one of Chicago’s greatest blues bands, Elmore James and the Broomdusters.James’ lyrics ...
Phineas Newborn, Jr.: Solo Piano
by AAJ Staff
When Nesuhi Ertegun perhaps serendipitously recorded Phineas Newborn, Jr. after Newborn had retreated to his hometown of Memphis in the mid-1970's, one of the founders of Atlantic Records helped to remind the jazz world of the overlooked potential of one of his generation's most promising, although perhaps not its most influential, pianists. That's not to say ...
Eddie Kirkland: The Complete Trix Recordings
by Ed Kopp
The Complete Trix Recordings is a reasonably priced two-CD collection consisting of two separate albums Eddie Kirkland recorded during the early ‘70s for the Trix label. These two discs are so dissimilar one might reasonably conclude that different artists recorded them, but such is the versatility of Jamaica-born bluesman Kirkland. Front and Center is ...
Twenty Special Fingers
By Les McCann
Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999
Track listing:
Disc One: (Les McCann)- Doin' the Thing, With These Hands, Burnin' Coal, Benjamin, Love for Sale, Roberta
Disc Two: (Mitchell-Ruff Trio)- The Catbird Seat, Street of Dreams, So in Love, Con Alma, Gypsy in My Soul, I'll Remember April
