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Joe Sample: The Pecan Tree
by Mike Perciaccante
Wow! I don't think there is a better description for this new recording from Joe Sample. I truly believe that this is the best jazz CD that I have heard in the past year. If you're a new listener to jazz, Sample is an accomplished composer, keyboardist and co-founder of the Crusaders. The Pecan ...
Mike Stern: Voices
by Mike Perciaccante
Mike Stern has had the makings of Voices within him for quite some time. Only now has it come to the surface. Voices is his tenth recording for the Atlantic Jazz label. With Voices, Stern has poised himself for popular (i.e. commercial) acclaim. Always a critical darling, Stern has remained somewhat unknown to the CD buying ...
Chris Botti: Night Sessions
by Mike Perciaccante
How often do you purchase a CD and love it in its entirety? If you love jazz or just good music, buy this CD and experience that rare feeling. Night Sessions is a soon to be classic album. This is jazz at its finest! The musicianship is incredible! Botti is an excellent trumpet player and each ...
Tom Lehrer: The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
by Mike Perciaccante
Did you know that the classic songs (heard regularly on Dr. Demento's show) “The Vatican Rag," “The Masochism Tango" and “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" -- not to mention, “Silent E" (from the Electric Company) all came from the fertile mind and imagination of one man? Tom Lehrer is the genius behind these great musical and ...
Charles Mingus: The Very Best Of Charles Mingus
by Mike Perciaccante
Mingus was a genius. The music on this CD is incredible. Anything that Mingus recorded was incredible. This being the Very Best Of, what does one expect, but fantastic performances. The only real complaint her is why one CD an not two. Mingus released enough “must have" classic compositions, that two CDs would be the most ...
Various Artists: Rhapsodies In Black: Music And Words From The Harlem Renaissance
by Mike Perciaccante
This collection is a four-star, four-CD set complete with a 100-page booklet that in itself could serve as a textbook of the Harlem Renaissance and the music that it spawned. Rhino has again created an innovative package. Rhapsodies In Black includes CDs tucked into graphically cool sleeves that feature the art and music of that Harlem ...
John Coltrane: Ole Coltrane
by Mike Perciaccante
Following his classic releases Giant Steps, Coltrane Jazz, My Favourite Things and Coltrane Plays The Blues in the Coltrane catalog, Ole Coltrane was the master's final recording for Atlantic before moving to the Impulse! label. Perhaps that is why this album seems to be one of his most overlooked recordings. Ole which was originally released in ...
John Coltrane: Coltrane Plays The Blues
by Mike Perciaccante
These recordings come from the same sessions that produced 1961's My Favorite Things. This is one of the least well know Coltrane albums, partly because it is an all blues format and partly because it was released at the end of his association with Atlantic records. Plays The Blues features the talents of McCoy Tyner, Elvin ...
Kermit Ruffins: 1533 St. Philip Street
by Mike Perciaccante
The title of this wonderful CD is the address of Kermit's new club in the Tremé section of New Orleans, not his home address. For those heading for New Orleans, Ruffins' club is a don't miss--especially if he is on the bill. 1533 St. Phillip Street is also an outstanding CD; it may well even be ...
Irvin Mayfield: How Passion Falls
by Mike Perciaccante
How Passion Falls is Mayfield's second CD on Basin Street Records and it can hold its own with all the mainstream jazz that has been released in recent memory. The album contains ten original compositions (one track is “hidden" at the end) and deals with love and romance (what else, with a title like How Passion ...
