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Noah Kaplan Quartet - Descendants (2011)
The title for the Noah Kaplan Quartet's debut album makes all the sense in the world when you look up the word “descendant" in the dictionary. There, you'll find one of the definitions read “deriving or descending from an ancestor." In the case of saxophonist Noah Kaplan, he's learned from microtonal pioneer Joe Maneri, and with ...
Guilty Pleasures: Michael Buble - Come Fly with Me (2004)
Diana Krall ... Harry Connick Jr. ... Josh Groban ... Norah Jones ... Michael Bublé. What to make of young, attractive musicians who seem rooted in the past? Are they tryin' to trick us by offering lite and easy-to-chew nostalgia? Sorry, but that's a big loada hooey. Even though the visually-oriented marketing makes me a little ...
On Second Thought: Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 - Fool on the Hill (1968)
Like a Wayback Machine, certain sights, sounds, smells and tastes transports us to certain times and places in our lives. Listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 from their hitmaking days from four and half decades ago puts me right back into preschool. Fool On The Hill was probably Mendes' most popular album in the U.S., ...
Movies: Jean Bach - A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
New York City circa 1958, for the jazz aficionado, was the place to be. Possibly no other artifact can confirm this statement with more clarity than photographer Art Kane's landmark portrait A Great Day in Harlem. NYC clubs boasted nightly performances by a collection of the greatest players in jazz history and that, combined with plans ...
Ellis Marsalis - A New Orleans Christmas Carol (2011)
An expanded version of a 2002 Yuletide project, A New Orleans Christmas Carol impressively expands the original collaboration with Marsalis' son Jason (on drums and vibes), bassist Bill Huntington and vocalist Cynthia Liggins Thomas. The result is a tour-de-force for the often under-exposed patriarch of the Marsalis jazz family, and a seasonal record of sumptuous charm. ...
Paul McCartney - The Love We Make (2011)
Paul McCartney, sitting in a plane waiting to return to his native England, saw the smoke rising from the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. The son of a volunteer firefighter during the German Blitz of World War II, McCartney was moved to assemble an all-star concert in honor of New York City's surviving first responders ...
Ferit Odman - Autumn in New York (2011)
There's something at once familiar, and entirely brand new, about Turkish drummer Ferit Odman's just-released Autumn In New York. Taking his cue from jazz drumming and bandleading legend Art Blakey, Odman investigates a series of tunes associated with the Blakey band, and even includes former members of the Jazz Messengers collective. Odman, however, performs with a ...
Jason Adasiewicz's Sun Rooms - Spacer (2011)
One of the busiest players in Chicago's jazz/improvised music scenes, the name of vibraphonist and composer Jason Adasiewicz always seems to come up when discussing recordings by some of the most dynamic and cutting edge musicians and ensembles from that town. Adasiewicz himself have led a few combos on his own, and the latest, Sun Rooms, ...
Pat Martino - Undeniable (2011)
Pat Martino, along with George Benson, was the greatest jazz guitarist to spring from those righteous sounding organ trios of the 60s, and like Benson, Martino is still playing at a very, very high level. And, mixed in with some side excursions into other jazz forms, he's still playing that same brand of organ powered soul-jazz ...
Ray Charles - Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (2011)
Ray Charles, sightless and orphaned by age 15, led a life that sounded like a blues song. But the range and scope of his talent could never be contained within one genre, no matter its lasting joys. A gifted performer on the piano, organ, clarinet and alto sax, Charles dabbled at first in Nat Cole-esque trio-jazz, ...
