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Shredding and Sitting at CES 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
So this is the future: After breaking a leg using a high-tech snowboarding parka to switch between an iPod and cell phone in mid-air, gear geeks can recover in a lounge chair equipped with full-blown Surround Sound circuitry. Priceless. Actually there is a price, probably a rather steep one, for those hoping ...
The Future of Digital Music: A Preview of CES 2005
by Mark Sabbatini
So far the greatest discovery from a sneak preview into expensive future technology is free and long outdated stuff. Going through endless press releases and agendas for the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas reveals lots of hype about surround-sound MP3s, walkman-like satellite radios and other advances designed to let people listen to ...
Bill Evans: The Best Of Bill Evans
by Mark Sabbatini
How does one rate good execution of a flawed concept?The Best Of Bill Evans is the latest in an abundant number of compilations claiming to capture the piano legend's finest work in a disc or two. Such albums almost never capture the range of any landmark performer, especially since most play on multiple labels ...
Best Online Bets of 2004
by Mark Sabbatini
This is the year I became a believer. I've been downloading music for years, mostly a few novelty or sample tracks here and there. But 2004 is the first year where my purchases of online music clearly exceeded traditional CDs. And the amount of free and legal music may have surpassed both. ...
Tim Thompson: Faces
by Mark Sabbatini
For some bizarre reason this album inspires memories of Thailand, where a used paperback novel and a take-out meal for ten cost the same: the value is strongly influenced by the setting. Nashville guitarist Tim Thompson's Faces is a smooth jazz collection of originals and standards offering substance while still appealing to the Russ ...
Artie Shaw: Clarinetist and Bandleader, 1910-2004
by Mark Sabbatini
“His use of strings and arrangements blending commercialism with interesting musical values was almost unique of its kind. But Shaw was a contrary soul, critical of any pandering to audiences." - “The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD," referring to Artie Shaw For someone hoping to pitch swing-era big band music to ...
At Last...The Duets Album
by Mark Sabbatini
This album is the pinnacle of artistic inspiration, an achievement nonpareil for annihilating depression, a lone triumph among the hundreds of albums scrutinized annually in search of gems. Kenny G's At Last -The Duets Album is, in short, everything a jazz reviewer might possibly hope for. The ultimate stage for creative indulgence, limited only ...
Live Archive: Drop Trio
by Mark Sabbatini
It's late at night in a strange city, anyone's guess as to what's worth doing and cash is running low. But it's one of those rare occasions when luck strikes, as some promising riffs drift out from some obscure club that turns out to have no cover charge or drink minimum. Think of this ...
The Complete Jazz Casual Series
by Mark Sabbatini
The Complete Jazz Casual Series Various ArtistsEfor Films2004 If Ken Burns' 10-disc “Jazz" is a freshman lecture, this is a senior recital.All 28 episodes from America's first television jazz series are featured in the eight-DVD boxed set The Complete Jazz Casual Series, where a huge ...
Mingus In Greenwich Village
by Mark Sabbatini
Charles Mingus Mingus In Greenwich Village Efor Films 2004 As he waits for police to arrive with an eviction order he plays piano, discusses Nazism and fires a rifle into his apartment ceiling as his 5-year-old daughter watches. There's a reason Charles Mingus is known as the “angry ...
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