Results for "Capitol Records"

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

by Michael Fortuna
July 1, 2001

As jazz's bebop movement flourished during the late 1940s with its fast-paced rhythms from virtuosos like trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Miles Davis headed off in a new direction. Taking cues from the innovations learned in Parker's group, Davis, along with his nonet, recorded 12 songs in a two-year span that, ...

Buddy Rich: Keep the Customer Satisfied

by Michael Fortuna
July 1, 2001

Traps the Drum Wonder stayed true to this album title.The recent reissue of Pacific Jazz's Keep the Customer Satisfied collects Buddy Rich and his big band's three-night stint at Las Vegas' Tropicana Hotel in 1970.Six of the 13 tracks didn't make the album the first time around, but now they've been polished ...

Rachelle Ferrell: Individually (Can I Be Me?)

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2001

While her album entertains with a pleasant groove and a variety of electronic textures, Rachelle Ferrell shares only about half her true talent with the audience. Preferring instead to cover the session with background vocals, droning hip-hop rhythms and movie soundtrack effects, she weaves an acrobatic voice around originals that offer stories of romance and other ...

Buddy Rich: Keep The Customer Satisfied

by John Sharpe
March 1, 2001

In the late sixties drum virtuoso Buddy Rich recorded a series of albums for Liberty/Pacific Jazz that most critics agree were the best of his career. Keep The Customer Satisfied captures Rich, an admitted showoff, performing live before an enthusiastic audience at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Of the original seven tracks, only one (the ...

Various: Hot Jazz on Blue Note

by Mike Neely
March 1, 2001

Hot Jazz on Blue Note is a superb box set from the liner notes and photos to the choice of performances and the quality of the sound re-mastering. Jazz from the 1940’s is the focus, and New Orleans revival is mostly the style. A subtle touch of swing music is also in the mix throughout this ...

June Christy: June Christy-Big Band Specials

by Ron Meyers
February 1, 2001

I've had this on LP ever since 1962 when it first came out. Unfortunately my copy is now full of clicks, pops and surface noise. Particuarly annoying on a vocal album. Imagine my surprise when I spotted this new release on CD. Aside from the fact that Christy is in fine voice, the big attraction for ...

Count Basie Orchestra: Atomic Swing

by Mike Neely
February 1, 2001

Count Basie usually brings to mind a legendary rhythm section, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and such singers as Jimmy Rushing and Billie Holiday. But after World War II, long after his most famous orchestra dissolved, Basie put together another that is among the finest big bands in the history of jazz. Count Basie: Atomic Swing provides ...

Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2001

The improved sound quality of this classic recording is immediately perceptible. Without that clear tuba and baritone saxophone bottom, Miles Davis' open trumpet would seem to be wandering in a different phase of his career. A valuable asset such as the first half of “Moon Dreams," which blends Gunther Schuller's French horn harmony and two distinct ...

High Fidelity Reference CD 53

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2000

Them Dirty Blues

By Cannonball Adderley

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Work Song; Jeannine; Easy Living; Them Dirty Blues; Dat Dere; Del Sasser; Soon; Work Song (alternate version); Dat Dere (alternate take).Collective