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Summer Vacation
by Chris M. Slawecki
Summer vacation usually means discovering new locations or revisiting favorite horizons for a fresh perspective. Here we explore music most likely found outside the “Jazz" section of your favorite online or retail music shop. Sometimes it's nice to travel...and sometimes it's nice to return home, too. Steely Dan: Everything Must Go (Reprise) ...
A Period of Transition: Miles @ the Blackhawk 1961
by Chris M. Slawecki
In early 1961, Miles Davis set out to record sessions that would become his Someday My Prince Will Come album. At the same time, he was phasing saxophonist Hank Mobley into, and John Coltrane out of, his working quintet. Someday proved a true transitional record, as Coltrane recorded solos for two songs and handed off the ...
Adelante a Libertad! (Onward to Freedom!)
by Chris M. Slawecki
Latin music has been of such interest to me lately, I think, because it is generally played with passion and precision in a world that seems to hold both in short supply. To me, good Latin music usually sounds like a vibrant and colorful and noisy carnival. To borrow the lyric from “I Don’t Speak Spanish” ...
Burnt Friedman & The NuDub Players: Can't Cool
by Chris M. Slawecki
Composer, arranger, producer, and performer (on drums, marimbas, vibes, synthesizer, piano, and other keyboards) Burnt Friedman normally blasts progressive rock and jazz apart, but when working with his NuDub Players ensemble he takes aim at de/constructing avant-garde reggae and dub. Whether inspired lunacy or just plain craziness, this third NuDub release, featuring trombonist Ian Perry, saxophonist ...
Roy Hargrove Presents the RH Factor: Hard Groove
by Chris M. Slawecki
Having previously immersed his trumpet in two 'new soul' collaborations in 2000—D'Angelo's Grammy Award-winning Voodoo album and subsequent tour, plus songstress Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun album—Roy Hargrove dives headfirst into the soul pool. RH Factor blends a core band of two saxophonists, three keyboard players, two bassists and drummers, and two guitarists (including legendary soul session ...
Steely Dan: Everything Must Go
by Chris M. Slawecki
Donald Fagen (lead vocals, synthesizers, Rhodes, organ and other keyboards) and Walter Becker (bass, guitar and vocals) seem to more solidly hit stride on this second album in their comeback. This follow-up to Two Against Nature (2000), the Dan's first new studio recording in twenty years, seems more naturally and tightly woven than their previous effort ...
Various Artists: Traveler '03: The Year's Best in Global Grooves
by Chris M. Slawecki
“The Six Degrees Travel Series is dedicated to bringing you the best in traditional and contemporary musical excursions from around the world,” read the notes to the label’s third annual overview of world electronic music. “We are particularly interested in genre-bending hybrids that include a variety of musical styles as well as a mix of the ...
Jaco Pastorius: Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology
by Chris M. Slawecki
This comprehensive 28-track, 2-CD anthology recounts in detail the genuine bass-playing revolution detonated by the in your face approach and sound advanced by Jaco Pastorius. Like a good Anthology, this really covers just about everything. That means his five years as a third lead voice in Weather Report, alongside Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, with the ...
Roomful of Blues: That
by Chris M. Slawecki
A few numbers: 40 band alumnae, 35 years, 16 albums, 4 Grammy Award nominations, and 2 W.C. Handy Awards since the group was founded by keyboardist Al Copley and guitarist Duke Robillard. Roomful of Blues’ resume includes Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and was once called “the hottest blues band I’ve ever heard” ...
Garaj Mahal: Live, Vols. 1-3
by Chris M. Slawecki
Individually and in combinations, the members of Garaj Mahal - Eric Levy (keyboards), Alan Hertz (drums), Kai Eckhardt (bass) and Fareed Haque (guitar) - have accompanied Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, Steve Smith's Vital Information, and the John McLaughlin Trio. These three simultaneous (individually packaged) live sets fish with hip young bait in the hopes ...
