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Baden Powell: O Universo Musica de Baden Powell
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
2 disc set - from The Barclay Years 1964-1972 and The Festival Years 1970-1977 Baden Powell was a legendary Brazilian guitarist whom many consider the best of all time. A prodigy at the age of six, classically trained, his powerful sound and personality are unique and instantly recognizable. Unlike the velvety Joao Gilberto, who ...
Marco Pereira: Original
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
On my first visit to Rio in 1989, with the WBGO Music and Beaches Tour, I went to a music store where you could play a record first to see if you liked it. Someone suggested Marco Pereira's 1987 Circulo das Cordas, on the Brazilian Som Da Gente label, and when I heard that first track ...
One for All: No Problem
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This starlit group hits the ground running with drummer Joe Farnsworth's driving tribute to Art Blakey: it's an introduction that says, “we have arrived, folks, just buckle up and ride." Not a hard thing to do and great fun to boot. Recorded at New York's historic Avatar Studios in April of 2003, the sextet's combined mastery ...
AphroCDsiacs?
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Fantasy has been doing the “Plays for Lovers" series since the mid-60s, and reissued several in 2003. Before I get to my impressions of Kessel, Mitchell, and Coltrane, I'd like to spend a moment on the whole idea. Obviously the goal is to assemble romantic tunes from legendary discographies, but that doesn't mean they're ...
NY Trio: Love You Madly
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This bouquet of Ellingtonia is superb, but then you'd expect nothing less from such a top-level trio. Bill Charlap, increasingly acknowledged as one of the best living pianists in jazz, has a unique touch; when he plays a ballad, as on “Sentimental Mood," he presses the keys so softly that the notes seem breathed, rather than ...
Steve Kuhn: Oceans in the Sky
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Recorded in 1989 for Owl Records and finally reissued, Oceans in the Sky is a timeless gem from impressionistic veteran pianist Steve Kuhn. Although he was John Coltrane's original pianist and worked with Stan Getz and Art Farmer, Kuhn's detour into electric piano, commercial music and accompaniment (most notably for Sheila Jordan) has to some extent ...
New York Trio: Love You Madly
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This bouquet of Ellingtonia is superb, but then you'd expect nothing less from this top-level trio. Bill Charlap, increasingly acknowledged as one of the best living pianists in jazz, has a unique touch; when he plays a ballad, as on “Sentimental Mood," he presses the keys so softly that the notes seem breathed, rather than struck. ...
A Psychiatric Christmas Poem
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The Only Normal Family in America Twas the last shrink convention and all through the house Not a Skinner box was stirring With chimp, rat or mouse. The speaker that day had the focus of all The seekers of truth who had crowded the hall. Their ...
Art Tatum: The Best of the Pablo Solo Masterpieces
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
I have a dear friend, an accomplished jazz pianist, who used to attach the following tag to his e-mail: “I believe in God and Art Tatum — not necessarily in that order." I too appreciate Tatum's peerless mastery of keys and harmonies, his signature inventiveness, impeccable inner metronome, feathery runs, and pioneering ability to bridge the ...
The Jazz Times Halloween Scare
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
In October of 2002, Jazz Times ran a cover story called “Hard Bop, Hard Time: Music, Madness and Roy Brooks. “ It was good timing, since the article was as dark and scary - and as full of fantasy - as Halloween. It warns that jazz musicians are especially prone to developing bipolar “disease," ...
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