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Buddy Bolden: The Sky Is Blue
by Hrayr Attarian
2008 will always be remembered fondly in the world of jazz because it's the year of this music's greatest discovery. Buddy Bolden's only recording is no longer stuff of legend and lore, but a reality. The story of this great find sounds almost fictional: A graduate student at the University of Kansas while helping a local ...
Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: (1)St. Martin De Porres 6:32 (M.L.Williams, A.S. Woods), (2)It Ain't Necessarily So 4:41 (G. & I. Gershwin), (3) The Devil 4:00 (MLW, Ada Moore), (4)Miss D.D. 2:28 (MLW), (5)Anima Christi 2:40 (MLW), (6)A Grand Night for Swinging 2:48 (B. Taylor, (7)My Blue Heaven 3:06 (G.Whiting, W.Donaldson), (8)Dirge Blues 3:21 (MLW), (9) A Fungus A Mungus 2:57 (MLW), (10) Koolbonga 3:21 (MLW), (11) Forty-Five Degree Angle 2:50 (D. Best), (12) Nicole 3:37 (MLW), (13) Chunka Lunka 3:07 (MLW), (14)Praise the Lord 5:55 (MLW)
Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes
by Bob Jacobson
Calling this album mainstream is a bit misleading, since it includes four pieces of choral/sacred music and one avant-garde cut. In a way, it's the perfect mirror of where Mary Lou Williams was in the early 1960's, coming out of a nearly ten year absence from performance. At the beginning of that period she had devoted ...
Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City
By Badenya
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Fakoli; Jigiya; Kinzan; Nanfullen; Janjon; Sidi Yellah; Sori Kemedon; Keme
Burema; Allah L'A Ke; Diniya; Djiu De Galinha.
Badenya: Badenya: Manden Jaliya in New York City
by AAJ Staff
Let's get the facts straight up front: no jazz here. Why bother to review the music, then? Because it's good. Progressive jazz musicians have long appreciated the musical traditions of Africa, especially West Africa, and especially as they relate to percussion. During the '60s, jazz drummers began to assimilate instruments played with the hands, not with ...
The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Liza; Aunt Hager?s Blues; Sweet Lorraine; Jersey Sweet; Yamekraw-A Negro Rhapsody; Daintiness Rag; The Dream; The Dream (alternate); Blue Moods; Keep Movin?; Woman Blues; Jazzamine Concerto; St. Louis Blues; Jungle Drums; Blue Moods, Sex; Euphonic Sounds; Twilight Rag; Snowy Morning Blues; Snowy Morning Blues (alternate); Blues for Jimmy. (73:44)
James P. Johnson: The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945 piano solos
by Mike Neely
The Original James P. Johnson goes a long way toward summing up the early history of jazz piano. The early jazz singer Ethel Waters stated, “ All the hits you hear, now as then, originated with musicians like James P. Johnson . . . the rest of the hot piano boys . . . just followers ...
Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me
By Barbara Dane
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 1996
