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The Greatest Gift
By Alexis Cole
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Joy to the World; Jeanette Isabella/The Call; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Christmas Time Is Here (Prelude); Christmas Time is Here; What Child Is This?; O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; Away in a Manger; Silent Night; Happiest Christmas; Jesus is the Best Part of Christmas.
Ithamara Koorax: Bim Bom - The Complete Joao Gilberto Songbook [USA]
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2009
Roni Ben-Hur: Fortuna
by J Hunter
The most famous lyric from Charlie Chaplin's bittersweet song “Smile" is, “Smile, though your heart is aching/Smile, even though it's breaking." Roni Ben-Hur knows that methodology, and how: Smile (Motema, 2008), Ben-Hur's benefit disc with fellow guitarist Gene Bertoncini, was originally conceived as a duet with Ben-Hur's longtime bassist Earl May, who died before recording began. ...
Alexis Cole: The Greatest Gift
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Award-winning vocalist Alexis Cole is getting ready for Christmas with The Greatest Gift. The disc features 14 tracks, including original songs and some Christmas favorites such as “Joy to the World," “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," “Away in a Manger," and “Silent Night." The titles may be familiar, but Cole's ...
Tessa Souter: Obsession
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per capire che ci si trova davanti a un'artista raffinata e complessa basta ascoltare la tesa e languida cover di “Eleanor Rigby," posta proprio in apertura di questo sorprendente Obsession. Tessa Souter è una cantante senza dubbio fortemente imparentata col jazz, ma incline a un concetto di musica nel quale predominano saldi appigli alla forma-canzone classica. ...
New Jazz Composers Octet: The Turning Gate
by Hrayr Attarian
Intricate compositions often provide the best substrate for complex and satisfying improvisation. This holds true for the New Jazz Composer's Octet's The Turning Gate, which includes five short compositions and one long suite made up of six movements. Each piece serves as a vehicle for group interplay and interpretation, and as a platform for one or ...
Oran Etkin: Kelenia
by Martin Gladu
As the open air arias of grilling cicadas and bustling barbecues mix in with the distant thumping of convertibles to announce the new solstice, what better than a hot, mellifluously ornate African chant to brush off what is left of spring and get everyone in a festive mood?The cause of celebration? Summer, of course. ...
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