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The Conga Kings: Jazz Descargas
by Chris M. Slawecki
On many levels, The Conga Kings’ Jazz Descargas is authentic Afro-Cuban jazz. For starters, Carlos “Patato” Valdes and Candido Camero have been Afro-Cuban music pioneers for decades. Patato is recognized as one of the first to tune his congas to a song’s dominant chord, which contributes harmony to the song’s melody as well as to the ...
Lee Konitz: Parallels
by AAJ Staff
Perhaps there are benefits to not being signed to a single label, especially when the artist is as well-known and recordable and in-demand as Lee Konitz. While, say, a Jackie McLean was going almost unrecorded until he signed with Blue Note and a Benny Golson was in the same situation until Arkadia started releasing a stream ...
Clark Terry: One On One
by Bill Donaldson
At the age of 80, Clark Terry finally is being acknowledged as one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz. The crescendo of recognition started for his 75th birthday, when he made the cover of Down Beat, when he earned “Lifetime Recognition" awards left and right, and as, although not signed to a single label, he ...
Lee Konitz: Parallels
by AAJ Staff
Ever in the present, actively improvising today as he did in the ‘50s, Lee Konitz has produced a trenchant album for the now with, as the title suggests, parallels to the past. Two distinct sets comprise this album. The first four songs see Konitz in a quartet arrangement. Featured guest, Mark Turner, joins on the last ...
Chuck Loeb: In a Heartbeat
by Dave Hughes
For the past 15 years or so, Chuck Loeb has been a first-call session guitarist and producer, as well as recording and performing under his own name and with the bands Petite Blond, Metro, and the Fantasy Band. His earlier touring gigs included Chico Hamilton, Hubert Laws, Ray Baretto, Stan Getz, and Steps Ahead. So it's ...
Steppin'
Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Will It Go 'Round In Circles; Mercy Street; Tomorrow Never Knows; Thieves in the Temple; This Must Be Love; Delays on the Downtown 6; She's Not There; The Shadow of Your Smile; Is Love Enough; Ain't No Half Steppin'; Spooky; Nite and Day.
The Coryells
Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2000
Track listing:
Sentenza Del Cuore: Allego, Interlude, Adagio; Goodbye Porkpie Hat; Sink Or Swim; Zimbabwe; Low-Lee-Tah; Love And Happiness; Something Pretty; Trouble No More; Funky Waltz; Transparence; Somebody
