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Brandi Disterheft: Debut

by Raul d'Gama Rose
July 7, 2008

Brandi Disterheft Debut Superfran Records 2007 While the rest of the world was talking about Esperanza Spaulding another bassist has been busy making a quiet noise, in a voice all her own. Brandi Disterheft's mature bass playing--both pizzicato and arco--and her ability to write original material and arrange ...

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Grant Green: Idle Moments

by Chris May
July 4, 2008

> Grant Green Idle MomentsBlue Note1964 Guitarist Grant Green is most widely remembered today as a godfather of acid jazz, a consequence of the many groove-centric albums he recorded during his career. His debut, Grant's First Stand (Blue Note, 1961), was made with soul jazz organist Baby ...

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Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid

by Chris May
July 1, 2008

Conventional wisdom has it that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders' signature, late-1960s astral jazz recording is “The Creator Has A Master Plan" from Karma (Impulse!, 1969). But conventional wisdom is rarely to be trusted. Clocking in at an unhurried and mesmerising 32:45, “Master Plan" is certainly definitive Sanders of the time; yet “Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt," from ...

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Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come

by Samuel Chell
June 29, 2008

Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come Sony BMG 2008 Recorded over the course of three days in April of 1961, Someday My Prince Will Come is at once a curiosity and a masterpiece, a recording that not only captures trumpeter Miles Davis' group in ...

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Grateful Dead: Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings

by Doug Collette
June 29, 2008

Grateful Dead Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings Grateful Dead/Rhino 2008The Grateful Dead's Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings appears a little over two years after its original release was aborted a few months prior to the band's business affiliation with Rhino Records was made official. The release ...

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Stan Getz: At The Shrine

by Chris May
June 27, 2008

> Stan Getz At The Shrine Verve 1955 Bookended between The Complete Roost Recordings (Verve, 1950-55) and The Steamer (Verve, 1956), this November 8, 1954 live recording from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles is often overlooked when checklists of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's early classics are ...

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David Virelles: Motion

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 27, 2008

David Virelles Motion Justin Time Records 2008 Of all the fine new musicians to come out of Cuba in the last 5 or ten years, one of the most prodigiously talented is the pianist and composer, David Virelles. He began to study music formally at 7 years of ...

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Ari Erev: About Time

by Samuel Chell
June 20, 2008

Ari Erev About Time A.B.C.D. Music 2008 A reviewer is no longer doing a new pianist or the listener any favors (let alone earning his or her keep) by invoking the name of Bill Evans. Yet Israeli pianist Ari Erev all but makes unavoidable some reference to the seminal predecessor ...

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Bill Mobley: Moodscape

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 20, 2008

Bill MobleyMoodscapeSpace Time Records2008 A major magazine's annual jazz awards poll used to incorporate a category called: “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition." If there ever was an under-the-radar talent worthy of that award, trumpeter Bill Mobley (prounounced mobb-lee) is 2008's winner hands down. And based upon his superb playing ...

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George Duke: My Soul - The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings

by John Kelman
June 18, 2008

George Duke My Soul -The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings MPS/Universal Music Germany 2008 While he's gone on to become a renowned pop producer and, in recent years, has veered towards smooth jazz territory, keyboardist George Duke has, in fact, the credentials, skill and intuition to tackle most anything he chooses. So, ...