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Caravana Cubana: Late Night Sessions
by Mark Corroto
Face it, when it comes to authentic Cuban music, we are all just lurkers. Sure, you’re a fan of Dizzy Gillespie’s Cuban-jazz, but Dizzy and his import musicians, Chano Pozo and Mario Bauza, infused jazz with the feel of Cuba. It was, and is, glorious music, but it is a type of fusion. In recent times ...
Various: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz In Los Angeles (1921-1956)
by Mark Corroto
Face it--when it comes to stories, jazz beats all other genres, hands down. Whether real or semi-fictional, tales of jazzmen are superior to anything every told of aging Betty-Ford-Clinic-rehabbed rockers. Think about Jack Kerouac’s excitement facing the Buddha-like Charlie Parker in his novel On The Road, or Michael Ondaatje’s fictionalized account of the life of Buddy ...
Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Blues Masters: The Very Best of Johnny "Guitar" Watson
by Ed Kopp
Johnny “Guitar" Watson was a vastly underappreciated blues and R&B trendsetter whose adventurous guitar style influenced the likes of Bo Diddley, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. The Very Best of Johnny “Guitar" Watson focuses on the years 1952 through 1963, the period when Watson made his best music. Many of these tracks were previously unavailable on ...
Mel Torme: Lulu's Back In Town
by Mark Corroto
Mel’s hip. Period. There’s not a kitsch bone in his body. The television show Night Court did him the greatest disservice by focusing its boob-tube pop sensibilities upon him. Or perhaps, without the blessings of the tragically un-cool keepers of popular culture, many would never get the chance to hear the “Velvet Fog.” The latest word ...
Mongo Santamaria: Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)
by Mark Corroto
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1922, Ramon Santamaria, lovingly known as Mongo was to Afro-Cuban music what Ted Williams was to baseball. Fans loved his playing and fellow musicians studied his bongo and conga technique. He traveled to New York in 1948 to find beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie incorporating Chano Pozo's Cuban folk music and bandleaders ...
Mingus, Coltrane, Blakey & Monk: Four Rhino Reissues
by Robert Spencer
This second set of Atlantic classic jazz reissues from Rhino is just as attractively and imaginatively packaged as the first, and the music is just as seminal. I wonder why no one had this idea earlier: instead of trying to approximate LP packaging in and around a jewel box, Rhino here simply shrinks the actual original ...
John Coltrane: Coltrane's Sound
by Douglas Payne
Something about John Coltrane's brief but prodigious Atlantic period (1959-61) reminds me of my hometown, Pittsburgh - even though none of these sessions were recorded there, nor were any of these brilliant musicians from the Steel town. There's something honest, soulful, down-home and deeply touching in this music. Always takes me back; makes me ...
Various Artists: Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree; Crime Jazz: Music in the Second Degree
by Joel Roberts
The hard-boiled television and movie crime drama had its heyday from about 1950 to 1965. These mostly forgotten B-movies and early TV series were usually set in a gritty urban landscape, and revolved around a cop or private dick who was violent when he needed to be, and suave and romantic when he wanted to be. ...
Dave Koz: Lucky Man
by AAJ Staff
Dave Koz joins forces with a very talented group of musicians to bring us “Lucky Man." The all-star band includes Nathan East on bass, Robben Ford on guitar, Jeff Lorber on keyboards and Paul Jackson Junior. This album features one of my all time favourite cuts entitled “Tender is the Night" featuring the velvet ...
Ray Charles: Genius+Soul=Jazz/My Kind of Jazz
by Joel Roberts
During his creative peak in the late '50s and early '60s, Ray Charles put his soulful imprint on virtually every genre of American popular music. After he laid the foundation for the future of soul with his seminal Atlantic albums, and just before he bridged the gap between rhythm 'n' blues and country ...
