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Club d'Elf
by Mark Sabbatini
Here's a band who's music jam band fans may never need to buy -although they really should at some point. It's easy to classify Club d'Elf as one more in a crowded field, but they take things a step beyond with their music prowess and an astonishing range of guest musicians. Postings ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Walking With Giants
by Mark Sabbatini
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Walking With Giants Hyena Records 2004 For some reason applying the label “breakthrough album" here feels like I'm cheating the band. The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has a number of outstanding studio and live albums to their credit--not to mention a huge ...
D.D. Jackson: Unreleased Live Performances
by Mark Sabbatini
D.D. Jackson Unreleased live performances ddjackson.com D.D. Jackson is truly one of jazz's good guys, which just makes it harder saying anything negative about this collection of unreleased live songs available as free downloads at his web site. But while he gets high marks for performance, the ...
Lee Barry: Miles From Mars
by Mark Sabbatini
Lee Barry Miles From Mars www.leebarry.net 2004 Um, what exactly is the “essence of 'Space Jazz?'" That's what Lee Barry says he's trying to capture on his free online album Miles From Mars , combining a Miles Davis-like connection with a “spacey feel." There's also some ...
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts: Wake Up! (To What
by Mark Sabbatini
Open-minded and unselfish. Good moral qualities, but are they good musical ones as well? In drummer Matt Wilson's case, the answer is mostly yes on his latest album Wake Up! (To What's Happening) , reuniting the Arts And Crafts quartet that released a relatively straight-ahead album by that name in '01. Wilson, an exceptional ...
Chick Corea: A Deep Dive
by Mark Sabbatini
Pianist Chick Corea ranks among a top few in his mastery of jazz dialects, but many among the modern masses speak with his accent. Corea is one of the major pioneers of fusion, and his far-ranging influence since the 1960s includes post-bop, Latin, free-form and avant-garde jazz, as well as classical. He is a ...
The Great Jazz Trio: Someday My Prince Will Come
by Mark Sabbatini
When three guys with 130 years of experience collaborate on a set of oft-recorded tunes, certain things are expected. They'll be rock-solid and, if not the freshest sound going, still capable of some surprises. There won't be any nonsense or players who don't “get" what their colleagues are up to. Traditionalists will find something ...
Jeff Kashiwa: Peace Of Mind
by Mark Sabbatini
Somebody's missing the point here. I'm almost hoping it's me. There's clearly a decent market for albums like Peace Of Mind, the fifth solo album by former Rippingtons saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa, since so many of these smooth jazz soundalikes are occupying bin space at music stores. And a small part of me was rooting ...
The Washington Post's Free MP3 Download Site
by Mark Sabbatini
With campaign season in full swing, sacrificing an evening with the Washington Post becoming wise in the ways of our nation's capital seems reasonable. And it reveals a clear path in these times of a sharply divided electorate: Pledge allegiance to those following a Duke. That would be candidate Ellington in this ...
Finding Monster Bargains at Online Music Stores
by Mark Sabbatini
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 For 99 cents you can download a one-hour live performance by trumpet star Wynton Marsalis and his septet. Or a few seconds of him suggesting audience members use the restroom first. The same spare change buys more than 30 minutes of Miles Davis, ...
