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The Body Acoustic

Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 52nd Street, East Harlem, Bronxville, Hell's Kitchen, New York Descargas, Acoustic Metal, N.Y. Cool, Club Descarga.

Album

The Body Acoustic

Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2004

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Pizzarelli/Moore/Frigo/Alden: Hot Club of 52nd Street

Read "Hot Club of 52nd Street" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


Conceived by label owner David Chesky as a followup to last season's Four Generations of Miles , this project features four musicians who embody the spirit of post-war swing music but also play with equal skill and enthusiasm in the bebop genre. Chesky did not want to make this into a Django Reinhardt nostalgia piece replete ...

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Pizzarelli/Moore/Frigo/Alden: Hot Club of 52nd Street

Read "Hot Club of 52nd Street" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


There is no lack of talent or passion on Hot Club of 52nd Street ; for these two reasons alone it would be a noteworthy album. But this is a rare kind of swinging, foot-stomping, finger-tapping live session, as expressive and fiery as it is expertly controlled. Conceived and carried out in the spirit of guitar ...

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C: Inolvidable

Read "Inolvidable" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


In 1997, when Steve Turré released his self-titled production for Verve, Graciela Pérez interpreted José Antonio Méndez's bolero “Ayer lo vi llorar. At the time, I wondered why Graciela's yumminess wasn't featured more often as it was obvious there was plenty of feeling and interpretive capacity left in her vocal chords in spite of her advanced ...

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The Body Acoustic: The Body Acoustic

Read "The Body Acoustic" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


This album is a bit of a time capsule artifact dating back to approximately 1960 when small combo jazz with Afro-Cuban influences was all the rage. The mood is celebratory and cohesive as it was when jazz was regarded as the “thinking man's" music. The assembled players seem to fit the bill. Randy Brecker, playing entirely ...

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Various: Jazz Sexy

Read "Jazz Sexy" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


It’s unusual for a compilation album to be successful. For the most part, the short glimpses of each artist presented allow only a disappointingly cursory look at their work, and even conceptually driven collections often fail to maintain consistent quality from song to song. However, none of this applies to Jazz Sexy. Culled ...

Album

Three Guitars

Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Seu Jorge E Dona Ica; New Lute Prelude; New Lute Interlude; Soundtrack; After The Rain; Descending Grace; Metamorphosis; No Flight Tonight; Ralph's Piano Waltz; Suspended Circles; Exercise in Fourths; Autumn Breeze; Timeless

Album

eBop

Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2003


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