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A Guide to Online Music Services
by Mark Sabbatini
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 There is no ideal online music store and it's less likely all the time there ever will be. But properly used they can provide some of the greatest moments any music fan experiences. At their best it's hard to top the immediate gratification ...
g.org: A New Kind Of Blue
by Mark Sabbatini
g.org A New Kind Of Blue A Nest Of Eggs 2004 It takes balls to say you're going to redo Kind Of Blue. Producer Gary Guthrie puts his panache on display with A New Kind Of Blue , calling it a “what-if" album made possible by the modern ...
Kalman Olah Trio: Contrasts + Parallels
by Mark Sabbatini
There's a reason so many musicians perform modern interpretations of Bach: do almost anything to his compositions and they still sound great. Skeptical? Try this: download his Brandenburg Concertos from the internet in MIDI format ( www.bachcentral.com has an excellent selection of his work available for free) and change the instruments to anything except ...
Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars
by Mark Sabbatini
Normally it's nice to hear progression in an artist's work, but in this case an exception is warranted. Pianist Chick Corea returns to some of his better days with his Elektric Band of the late 1980s and early 1990s on To The Stars , a reunion with the original five members of the group. ...
The Bad Plus: The Bad Plus
by Mark Sabbatini
Is there another group that excels this well at not taking themselves seriously? The Bad Plus are earning raves as either stupendous or just plain stupid for their radical interpretations of pop standards, making their major label debut on 2003's These Are The Vistas and following up with 2004's Give . But as is ...
Various Artists: Jazz For Couch Potatoes!
by Mark Sabbatini
Talk about benefiting from low expectations. Maybe it's the thought of commercial smooth jazz emissary Chuck Loeb tackling the theme from “Gilligan's Island." Or a talent like saxophonist Eric Alexander stooping into “I Dream Of Genie." Or that Jazz For Couch Potatoes! even exists as a tribute to maybe our nation's most pathetic legal ...
Dead Cat Bounce: Home Speaks To The Wandering
by Mark Sabbatini
Their music defies easy description, but there's no trouble understanding why they keep winning awards and polls as Boston's best jazz band. Dead Cat Bounce blends everything from traditional big band to uber free jazz into a thick and inexplicably coherent canvas on their third album, Home Speaks To The Wandering. A record store ...
Finding Free and Legal Music Downloads on the Internet
by Mark Sabbatini
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Here's a strange thought: Free music downloads available legally are better than what the masses are stealing. Either allows jazz fans to collect a diverse library large enough to listen to indefinitely, especially since more is constantly put online. Those going the legal ...
Terry Gibbs: 52nd And Broadway: Songs Of The Bebop Era
by Mark Sabbatini
It's albums like this that make certain people rant about the “good ol' days." Vibraphonist Terry Gibbs incredibly still sounds lively and fresh on his 65th album, 52nd And Broadway: Songs Of The Bebop Era , frequently giving new tempos and arrangements to standards from the period. But this isn't modern music with a ...
Mili Bermejo: A Time For Love
by Mark Sabbatini
From the opening it's got that ever-so-subtle touch that separates moving ballads from cocktail lounge fodder. A Time For Love finds singer Mili Bermejo in a less-is-more setting, relying mostly on a piano and bass backing instead of the sextets and octets from her past few albums. It's a wise choice for an album ...
