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Grant Green: Matador
by Matt Marshall
Grant Green Matador Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1964) This may be the reissue of 2009: a resplendent vinyl pressing of guitarist Grant Green's Matador on two 180-gram, 45-rpm records from Music Matters. This May 1964 recording was, like many Blue Note sets, not released until many years later ...
Mike Barone Big Band / North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band / John Daversa Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Mike Barone Big Band Flight of the Bumblebee Rhubarb Recordings 2009 Flight of the Bumblebee is composer/arranger/trombonist Mike Barone's fifth big band album in as many years, and one can always deduce beyond the shadow of a doubt that he has some fresh and engaging insights to share. Barone's purpose ...
Grant Green: Street Of Dreams
by Chris May
Grant Green (1931-79) is probably the most sampled guitarist of his generation, and is rightly regarded as a godfather of acid jazz. His debut, Grant's First Stand (Blue Note, 1961)--heavy on the good foot groove--was made with soul jazz organist Baby Face Willette, and by 1965, when Green recorded an album for Verve, the label was ...
Mike Barone / National Youth Jazz Orchestra / Vaughn Wiester / Dutch Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Mike Barone Big Band Class of '68 Rhubarb Recordings 2009 While some may deem composer / arranger / trombonist Mike Barone's latest album gratuitous, those who were introduced to Barone's music via the band's superb recording Live at Donte's, 1968 should take enormous pleasure in hearing further inspired ...
Blue Note 7: Mosaic: a Celebration of Blue Note Records
by J Hunter
Blue Note's 70th anniversary deserves more than a cake, a toast, and a chorus of “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." To that end, The Blue Note 7's Mosaic: a Celebration of Blue Note Records is a collection of music from some of the imprint's greatest masters, as interpreted by a group of Blue Note's current ...
The Duke Pearson Songbook
Duke Pearson was a pianist, composer, and arranger who helped craft the sound of many of the Blue Note label's classic mid-1960s releases. He had a gift for writing quickly and coming up with memorable melodies that could be bright, poignant, or Sidewinder-style funky; several of his compositions, such as “Jeannine" and “Cristo Redentor," have become ...
The Right Touch
By Duke Pearson
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Chili Peppers; Make It Good; My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera); Los Malos Hombres; Scrap Iron; Rotary; Los Malos Hombres (alternate take).
Duke Pearson: The Right Touch
by AAJ Italy Staff
Solista di secondo piano, dietro i numerosi mostri sacri che negli anni sessanta popolavano la scuderia Blue Note, Duke Pearson ha spesso fornito a questi ultimi il proprio contributo di pianista e soprattutto di arrangiatore. Diventato per un certo periodo produttore della prestigiosa etichetta, ha inciso una manciata di album a proprio nome che ne confermarono ...
Duke Pearson: The Right Touch
by Hrayr Attarian
Don't judge a book by its cover the old saying goes, but how about judging a record by its title? Rarely a title is as appropriate for a recording as with pianist Duke Pearson's The Right Touch, recently reissued by Blue Note as part of the Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) Edition series. The six tunes, all ...
Mosaic Select 8
By Duke Pearson
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Disc One: 1. The Phantom 2. Blues For Alvina 3. Bunda Amerela (Little Yellow Streetcar
4. Los Ojos
Alegres 5. Say You're Mine 6. The Moana Surf 7. Theme From Rosemany's Baby 8. I
Don't Know 9. Captain Bicardi 10. Dialogo 11. Xibaba 12. Once I Loved (O Amor En
Paz)
Disc Two: 1. Gira, Girou (Round And Round) 2. Hermeto 3. Lost In The Stars 4. It Could
Only
Happen With You 5. Stormy 6. Book's Bossa 7. Emily 8. Bloos 9. I Don't Care Who Knows
It 10. A Beautiful Friendship 11. Horn In 12. Canto Ossanha 13. Sandalia Dela 14. Tears
15. Lamento 16. Upa Neguinho
Disc Three: 1. Stella By Starlight 2. Clara 3. Give
Me Some Love 4. Christo Redentor 5. Little Song 6.
My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) 7. How Insensitive (Insensalez) 8. Sleigh Ride 9.
Little Drummer Boy 10. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 11. Jingle Bells 12. Santa
Claus Is Coming To Town 13. Go Tell It To The Mountain 14. Wassail Song 15. Silent
Night 16. O Little Town Of Bethlehem 17. Old Fashioned Christmas
