Home » Search Center » Results: Chris M. Slawecki
Results for "Chris M. Slawecki"
Ithamara Koorax: Love Dance: The Ballad Album
by Chris M. Slawecki
Ithamara Koorax has released several albums in Brazil and Japan, but Love Dance is only the second US album for this star from Rio, the follow-up to her debut Serenade in Blue. With her unmistakable voice, Koorax sings English, Portuguese, and Spanish love songs composed by such masters as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz ...
El Gran Silencio: Super Riddim Internacional Volume 1
by Chris M. Slawecki
It almost never fails: think to yourself just once, however quiet and solitary your thought, that by now you must have heard every type of music and instrumentation, and life is sure to drop on ya something that you’ve never heard before. El Gran Silencio has is that latest something new. El Gran Silencio ...
Mongo Santamaria: Montreux Heat!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Even if not quite essential, this new release is drawn from the same 1980 Montreux Jazz Festival performance from which Santamaria’s live recording Summertime was previously released (Pablo, 1981) – including all three encores – and so helps to complete a more well-rounded portrait of the legendary Afro-Cuban conguero/bonguero as the 1970s transitioned to the ‘80s. ...
Jane Bunnett: Cuban Odyssey
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jane Bunnett visited Cuba for the first time in 1982, but in many ways – musically, at least – she has never really left. This Odyssey presents music from Havana and three other locales recorded during her trip to Cuba with trumpeter, producer and husband Larry Cramer, featuring Bunnett on flute and soprano ...
Boz Scaggs: Standards Volume I: But Beautiful
by Chris M. Slawecki
On this collection of genuine pop standards – the Gershwin’s “How Long Has This Been Going On,” Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” from Rodgers/Hart, and more – Scaggs saunters through spare, smoky nightclub arrangements in his understated, comfortable voice, supported by a quartet led by pianist Paul Nagel, who also did all the arrangements. ...
Michael Franks: Anthology: The Art of Love
by Chris M. Slawecki
These 31 digitally remastered tracks across two CDs span Franks’ three-decade career, with something from every one of his Warner Bros. releases plus his Windham Hill album Barefoot on the Beach, performances with the Australian sextet Crossfire and the Yellowjackets, and studio tracks with Joe Sample and Brenda Russell. Early cuts show Franks as ...
Jimmy Scott: Moon Glow
by Chris M. Slawecki
It took a long time in coming, but Jimmy Scott’s sure found his career groove with his series of “comeback” albums with Todd Barkan for the Milestone label. Barkan somehow knows how to set up Scott’s distinctive vocal presence – an unparalleled dynamic between the performer's exquisite sense of jazz and blues timing, and the ravages ...
Rockin
by Chris M. Slawecki
“He’s not playing rock n’ roll solos on that record, he’s playing really great trumpet on a jazz level...everybody’s playing well on a jazz level. But it’s still blatantly a rock ‘n’ roll record.” -- Guitarist Robert Quine on Jack Johnson “This is the album that is going to get Miles ...
Gene Deitch: The Pen Behind 'The Cat'
by Chris M. Slawecki
You'll usually find one unsung person, or more, standing behind a legendary 'jazz cat.' In the case of 'the Cat,' the subject of witty comic illustrations that enlivened the classic jazz aficionados' and collectors' magazine the Record Changer published from 1941 until 1957, that person standing behind 'the Cat' is artist Gene Deitch. Gene ...
Lift Every Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Jimmy Scott: Moon Glow (Milestone) It took a long time in coming, but Jimmy Scott’s sure found his career groove with his series of “comeback” albums with Todd Barkan for the Milestone label. Barkan somehow knows how to set up Scott’s distinctive vocal presence – an unparalleled dynamic between Scott’s exquisite sense of jazz ...
