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Harry Connick, Jr.: 30
by Jim Santella
Recorded just days before his 31st birthday, 30 continues the benchmark concept envisioned with 11, 20 and 25. Harry Connick, Jr. has opted for a suitable mix of vocal features and instrumental numbers this time out. Four multi-platinum and three platinum albums, three gold albums, two Grammy awards, an Emmy, Cable Ace, Golden Globe and Oscar ...
Peter White: Glow
by Dave Hughes
Popular smooth jazz guitarist Peter White continues his mastery of the idiom on Glow, his latest for Columbia. I have to admit, one reason I like Peter White’s work better than most smoothies these days is that his playing always does seem to emit a happy, effervescent glow. His friendly, personable style goes a long way ...
Al Di Meola: Anthology
by John W. Patterson
Okay, okay — he’s fast, he’s suave, slick, and oh so technically clean. Di Meola’s furious, flamenco, fandango, fusion guitar work stands alone. Very few have really ever gained exact echoes of his style. That muted percussive staccato riffage with explosive lead breaks and sudden stop-n-go colorings of tone and note texture have always been impressive.
Harry Connick, Jr.: Songs I Heard
by Jim Santella
Generations have their own songs. Over the years, Walt Disney's artistic contributions have had a lot to do with that. More to the point, Broadway, television and the film industry have left us with countless memories that will never fade. Many of them are timeless and most of them cross generations. Songs from Annie, ...
Billie Holiday: Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944)
by Jim Santella
In my solitude You haunt me With reveries Of days gone by Like quite a few other sentimental favorites, Duke Ellington's composition epitomizes the feeling you get when Billie Holiday sings. At the height of the swing era, Holiday's voice sparkled with an expressive sheen. By 1935, she had developed ...
Miles Davis: Live at Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
by Michael Fortuna
The crowd at the Fillmore East may have been puzzled after trumpeter Miles Davis finished his sets at the New York concert hall in March 1970. At the time, the audience was hearing something revolutionary and controversial pumping out of the loudspeakers.Little did they know that Davis was about to unleash the electric jazz/rock ...
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of Japan
by Wayne Zade
Like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and their groups, Dave Brubeck and his first great quartet were among the first jazz musicians after World War II to travel diplomatically in the service of peace throughout the world. Armstrong released Ambassador Satch in 1955, and Brubeck released The Real Ambassadors, with Armstrong, Carmen McRae, and others, seven years ...
E.S.T.: Somewhere Else Before
by Jim Santella
The Esbjörn Svensson Trio offers natural sounds with innovative extras. Formed in 1993, the piano trio plays straight-ahead jazz the way we remember it, and the way it should live forever. They've released six CDs in Sweden so far. This album is a collection of tracks from their last two CDs: From Gagarin's Point of View ...
Miles Davis: Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
by Jim Santella
“Directions" begins each of these sets, which reflect the change in direction that Miles Davis was pursuing with his landmark albums that had already been recorded in the late 1960s. Bitches Brew had not yet been released, when Davis and his band opened for The Steve Miller Blues Band and Neil Young & Crazy Horse in ...
Thelonious Monk: Monk in Tokyo
by AAJ Staff
Columbia Legacy Jazz recordings, the reissue department of Columbia Jazz, has seriously upped the ante on documenting Thelonious Monk's Columbia work with two more fine, fine Monk reissues. As those may be familiar, Columbia re- released both Monk: Live at the It Club, and Monk Alone (solo piano)- within the past three years. Now come these ...
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