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Patricia Scot: Once Around the Clock
by Samuel Chell
This reissue has at least two pleasant surprises: first, the revelation that, before discovering and promoting the gold mine that came to be known as smooth jazz, Creed Taylor was a musician of impeccable taste and discrimination; second, the rediscovery of an original vocalist/pianist who once toiled in piano bars in the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor as well ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band: Mosaic Select
by Samuel Chell
Jazz was never more schizophrenic than in the 1970s. On the one hand, musicians equally savvy about mixing genres and running mixing boards were selling out arenas and producing lucrative, widely played albums, with bass-heavy danceable beats or soothing instrumental sounds tailor-made for air play on FM radio. At the other extreme, many of the jazz ...
Gary Burton: Forging Ahead
by R.J. DeLuke
"I got started in Nashville and knew a lot of the country musicians. I got my first record contract from Chet Atkins who saw me playing in a local club in Nashville and who decided to talk to RCA and get them to offer me a long-term contract," says this renowned musician born in a small ...
Will Sellenraad: Balance
by J Hunter
Will Sellenraad grew up in a place and time many people dream of: New York City's downtown scene of the '60s and '70s, when music and art were both in a state of quicksilver flux. Given that his parents (prominent New York artists themselves) named their son after modern-art pioneers William de Kooning and Piet Mondrian, ...
Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums
by Chris May
Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz created by an emergent generation of Brazilian songwriters led by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, bossa nova (meaning “new flair" or ...
Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes
by Russ Musto
“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...
The Main Attraction
By Grant Green
Label: CTI Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Main Attraction;
Future Feature;
Creature.
Help Me Make It Through The Night [I Love Kudu Best 20 series]
Label: Kudu
Released: 2007
Track listing: Help Me Make It Through the Night;
Brian's Song;
Uncle Funky;
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning;
Go Away Little Girl;
Imagine;
Ham;
The Sun Died.
AllAboutJazz.com and Creed Taylor Release Eleven Titles Exclusive to AAJ Download Store
AllAboutJazz.com, the internet's largest and top-rated jazz portal, and Creed Taylor's CTI Jazz Online have released eleven CTI Jazz titles exclusively available through the AllAboutJazz.com Download Store. Eleven full-length albums by such respected musicians as Larry Coryell, Jim Hall and Charles Fambrough, which feature Wynton Marsalis, Chet Baker, Bobby Hutcherson, Grover Washington, Jr. and other soloists, ...
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