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Tony Bennett: The Essential Tony Bennett
by AAJ Staff
Tony Bennett ends nearly every performance with the musical question “How do you keep the music playing?" After nearly five decades in the industry, the more important question seems to be how do you capture the music on a two-disc set? And yet that's what Tony’s appreciative label has tried to do. From a Grammy-winning live ...
Lonnie Liston Smith: Explorations: The Columbia Recordings
by Jim Santella
Reissued from four albums, Columbia's 2-CD set reveals all the energy and large-scale production effort that was placed into Lonnie Liston Smith's work from 1978-80. Two that had not before been released on CD, Love Is The Answer and A Song For The Children, as well as Exotic Mysteries and Loveland, reflect the funk attitude that ...
Vertu: Vertu
by John W. Patterson
Vertú is a joy long overdue, a “hats off" to jazz fusion. The '70s saw an explosion of jazz rock fusion groups. They need not be listed here again. The advantage of being nouveau rock enlisted a fresh group of fans, loyal devotees, and the inevitable faddish clan. With the gradual fan-base attrition, the rise of ...
Vertu: Vertu
by David Adler
Vertú is a new group with former Return to Forever mates Stanley Clarke and Lenny White at its core. Billed as “The Second Coming of Fusion," the band’s debut release is thick with references to RTF’s heyday — tight, rhythmically punchy unison figures, unexpected tempo changes and orchestral shifts, and in particular Stanley Clarke’s inimitable staccato, ...
Vertu: Vertu
by Paula Edelstein
VERTU is Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Rachel Z, Karen Briggs & Richie Kotzen, the new music collective conceived by former Return To Forever alumni, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White. Their debut release on LegacySony 550 Music titled, VERTU, is ten tracks full of just what the fusion doctors ordered for those that have been ...
