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Aa.Vv.: Blue Note Perfect Takes [CD/DVD]
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by AAJ Italy Staff
La serie di ristampe RVG è una delle operazioni discografiche più riuscite degli ultimi tempi. Rudy Van Gelder è l’uomo che ha definito il sound ottimale di un disco jazz, partendo dai combo che la Blue Note catturava alla fine degli anni Quaranta per arrivare alle grandi orchestre prodotte da Creed Taylor nei primi anni Settanta. ...
Gil Fuller with Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody: Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie/Night Flight
by Graham L. Flanagan
Make a shortlist of your favorite, classic Dizzy Gillespie songs and the odds are that more than a few of them will share a connection to arranger Gil Fuller. Gillespie worked closely with Fuller during the height of his big band period in the mid to late ‘40s, resulting in numerous essential recordings. Their ...
Kenny Burrell: Kenny Burrell 75th Birthday Bash Live!
by Andrew Velez
This 75th birthday bash for and with guitar master Kenny Burrell brought together his quintet with Hammond B3 maestro Joey DeFrancesco and flute virtuoso Hubert Laws as special guests. As if that wasn’t juice enough for an evening, for the first half dozen sides of this gala, Burrell had an historic meeting with the ...
Andrew Hill: Change
by Jeff Stockton
Until Mosaic issued the limited-edition, seven-disc box set, The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-66), pianist Andrew Hill's remarkably prolific and consistently excellent Blue Note recordings languished in obscurity, especially on CD where only his masterpiece, 1964’s Point of Departure, was available with any certainty. Since then at least ten titles recorded between ...
Lou Donaldson: Here 'Tis
by Tom Greenland
Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson is one of a slew of hornmen to emerge from the long shadow of Charlie Parker, one whose distinctive bluesy sensibility eventually became a leading voice in the soul jazz movement. Here 'Tis (recorded in 1961), Donaldson's 14th session as a leader for Blue Note, is a standout release in ...
Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix
by George Kanzler
The mix here is a Cole Porter cocktail, a dry martini but with a touch of jalapeno instead of olive. And while there are strains of melancholy, as Barber says in the notes: “Cole Porter never wrote a song that said 'I'm miserable.'" That jalapeno heat comes from the evocative jazz arrangements and solos, especially those ...
Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Patricia Barber is absolutely one of a kind. There are any number of jazz vocalists who have good voices, pitch, time, and piano chops; there are others who also sing as if they were looking straight into your eyes. But there is no one who is so consistently iconoclastic, and so deliberately intellectual. Ever since her ...
Al Green: Lay It Down
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Singer Al Green's Lay It Down leaves the impression of still being in the heady heyday of Green's dominance of the rhythm and blues charts circa 1973. It's not 1973, of course; while some things are the same, others have changed.What remains the same, uncannily, is the classic Memphis soul sound of this record--displaced ...
Joe Lovano: Symphonica
by Chris May
Sumptuous and cinematic, a retrospective with a spin, Symphonica is the first album saxophonist Joe Lovano has recorded in its entirety with a full symphony orchestra. Playing mainly tenor, he revisits six of his favorite original compositions (and Charles Mingus' “Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love"), written over the last 20 years, with the massed strings, woodwinds ...
Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema
by John Kelman
If ever there were a supporting case for the importance of mentoring in jazz, it would be Aaron Parks. The pianist began playing with trumpeter Terence Blanchard in 2003 at the age of 18 and, over the course of three albums culminating in last year's deeply moving A Tale of God's Will (Blue Note, 2007), has ...
