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Pieces of a Dream: Soul Intent
by Woodrow Wilkins
Some artists go back to their old favorites, either revisiting past recordings or covering someone else's music. Pieces of a Dream goes back to making music the way they did almost 30 years ago. Keyboardist James K. Lloyd and drummer Curtis Harmon Jr. founded the group, associating closely with Grover Washington Jr. during the ...
The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis: For All I Care
by Matt Marshall
The recordings of too many contemporary jazz singers teeter precipitously on a cliff overlooking the meandering river of easy listening. Jane Monheit and her ilk sculpt with cake-icing spatulas, decorating standards and new material alike with a thick sheen of creamy frosting. Those who might reasonably lay claim to being the musical descendants of Billie Holiday ...
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75
by Woodrow Wilkins
A gift. That's perhaps the most effective description of the late Josef (Joe) Zawinul and what he has given to the world of music. So it follows that on his 75th and final birthday, one of the pioneers of jazz fusion performed the music that would become the two-disc 75, his final recording. Zawinul ...
The Bad Plus / Wendy Lewis: For All I Care
by Jeff Vrabel
The Bad Plus / Wendy Lewis For All I Care Heads Up International 2009 If you are The Bad Plus, and you've spent your acclaimed and wacky career dismantling pop and jazz tunes down to their barely recognizable components--spreading those components around like bike pieces on a garage floor and ...
Walter Beasley: Free Your Mind
by Woodrow Wilkins
One knock on smooth jazz is that it really shouldn't be called jazz because it lacks any hint of improvisation. Another is that artists and producers take musicians out of the equation by employing programmers who replace bass and drums. Occasionally, an artist overcomes these negatives with solid songwriting or exceptional play. Walter Beasley ...
Roots & Grooves
By Maceo Parker
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: Disc 1: Hallelujah I Love Her So; Busted; Them That?s Got; You Don?t Know Me; Hit the Road Jack; Margie; Georgia on My Mind; What?d I Say; Disc 2: Uptown Up; To Be or Not to Be; Off the Hook; Advanced Funk; Shake Everything You Got; Pass the Peas.
The Standard
By Take 6
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: Sweet Georgia Brown; Straighten Up and Fly Right; Seven Steps to Heaven; Windmills of Your
Mind; Someone to Watch Over Me; Grace (pre-prise); Back to You; A Tisket a Tasket; Bein'
Green; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?; What's Going On; Shall We Gather
at the River; Grace.
Maestro
By Taj Mahal
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: Scratch My Back; Never Let You Go; Dust Me Down; Further on Down the Road; Black Man, Brown Man; Zanzibar; TV Mama; I Can Make You Happy; Slow Drag; Hello Josephine; Strong Man Holler; Diddy Wah Diddy.
A Night Before Christmas
By Spyro Gyra
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: O Tannenbaum; It Won't Feel Like Christmas; Winter Wonderland; Christmas Time Is Here; Baby It's Cold Outside; Carol of the Bells; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; First Noel; Silent Night; This Christmas; Christmas Song.
Energy
By Fourplay
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fortune Teller; The Whistler; Ultralight; Cape Town; The Yes Club; Prelude for Lovers; Look Both Ways; Argentina; Comfort Zone; Sebastian.
