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Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live

Read "Bitches Brew Live" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
February 24, 2011

Bitches Brew Live documents Miles Davis, as he moved off the cusp of acoustic and electric jazz. The hour-long disc contains two live performances that constitute concert corollaries to the studio albums of their time, with which The Man With The Horn revolutionized modern jazz. The three recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival in ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Guitar Stylists of CTI Records

by Dan Bilawsky
February 4, 2011

In many ways, the guitarists who recorded for the CTI label owe a great debt to the late Wes Montgomery. Guitarist Montgomery's last recordings, before his untimely death from a heart attack, were like a laboratory test for producer Creed Taylor. At the time, Taylor was still trying to work out a formula to balance the ...

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News: Recording

CTI 40th Anniversary Celebration Continues With 6 More Classic Reissues by Sony Masterworks

January 19, 2011

CTI RECORDS 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES! SONY MASTERWORKS JAZZ RELEASES CLASSIC REISSUES FROM GEORGE BENSON, DEODATO, MILT JACKSON, PAUL DESMOND, JIM HALL AND RON CARTER: Available January 25, 2011 Also available: Critically acclaimed CTI Records: The Cool Revolution deluxe 4-CD box and California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium 2-CD set featuring previously unreleased tracks Masterworks Jazz continues ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Charles Fambrough: A Friend Unlike Any Other, R.I.P.

by Mark Kramer
January 10, 2011

For my dear friend Charles, my second Brother: Bassist Charles Fambrough, born in Philadelphia on August 25th, 1950 and known as “Broski," died on January 1st, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. with his daughter and wife at his side. Reportedly, he ever-so-gently squeezed their hands as he held them, and smiled. Then he was gone. ...

Album

The Crossing

By Eumir Deodato

Label: Soul Trade
Released: 2010

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Article: Extended Analysis

California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium

by John Kelman
December 24, 2010

CTI All StarsCalifornia Concert: The Hollywood PalladiumCTI Masterworks1971 (Reissued 2010) With the emergence of CTI Masterworks and the firing salvo of its comprehensive, four-CD box set, CTI Records--The Cool Revolution (2010), CTI Records is back and better than ever. With upgraded sound and packaging that lovingly recreates, albeit ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution

by John Kelman
December 23, 2010

Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...

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Article: Interview

Sandro Albert: A Bard’s Journey

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 23, 2010

His voice is soft and as lyrical as the music he composes and plays. Hearing the young and immensely talented guitarist, Sandro Albert speak can calm even the most frayed nerves. Nervousness was never an issue, but it is always exciting to speak with an accomplished musician. Albert is certainly one. He was born in Brazil ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Steve Sacks

by AAJ Staff
November 19, 2010

Meet Steve Sacks: A jazz saxophonist/flutist and Harvard-trained musicologist, Steve, has for 35 years, focused his talents on the richness and diversity of Brazilian and Latin music. An internationalist fluent in five languages, and with twenty years experience on the New York music scene, Steve has performed, recorded and/or written for a wide variety ...

News: Interview

Guitarist Sandro Albert Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

November 23, 2010

Completely self-taught, guitarist Sandro Albert paid his dues in small clubs and shacks on the Brazilian circuit before he graduated to larger venues in Brazil that included music festivals. Two years ago, he played at the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival at the invitation of Musical Director Claude Nobs. It was there that he performed with ...