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Tom Scott "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat"
The 1974 sequel to Ralph Bakshi's bizarre 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat is this equally wacky film, confusingly dubbed The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Directed by Robert Taylor—a storyboard artist who has since gone onto things like The Flintstone Kids, Ducktales (1988) and The Rugrats Movie (1998)—this sequel is a trip, both as ...
Kermit Driscoll "Reveille"
Bassist Kermit Driscoll is best known for his work in the 1990s behind such downtown luminaries as Bill Frisell (1987-96) and John Zorn (1988-94). He was also co-founder of the Knitting Factory collective New and Used, featuring trumpeter Dave Douglas, which waxed several records in the nineties. But the bassist, who studied under Jaco Pastorius, has ...
The George Shearing Quintet: All About Jazz Playlist
All About Jazz's My iTunes Playlists are designed to help music lovers compile their own “best of" iPod playlists or CDR compilations. Here is the playlist I constructed to help introduce new listeners to what I consider to be the best of the classic George Shearing Quintet's best available recordings. The great pianist George Shearing (1919-2011) ...
Gabor Szabo: All About Jazz Playlist
All About Jazz's My iTunes Playlists are designed to help music lovers compile their own “best of" iPod playlists or CDR compilations. Here is the playlist I constructed to help introduce new listeners to what I consider to be the best of Gabor Szabo's readily available recordings. Guitarist Gabor Szabo (1936-82) made a big noise in ...
"Habanera" by Sergio Puccini
Spanish guitarist Sergio Puccini's recent record Romerias features Lalo Schifrin's title piece, a suite of nine solo guitar pieces that the composer was commissioned to write in 1986 by famed guitarist Angel Romero. Puccini's remarkable performance here marks the first time this suite has been recorded in its entirety. The guitarist plays as if he knows ...
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew Live"
Many years ago when there was evolution and revolution in music, change was palpable. Today, too much music is just churned out by the latest technology. Only the faces change. The music machine is fueled by “product" and (or) stuff that sounds too much like something that's already been done before. But as the 1970s dawned, ...
Essential CTI: All About Jazz Playlists
All About Jazz's My iTunes Playlists are designed to help music lovers compile their own “best of" iPod playlists or CDR compilations. Here are three playlists I've constructed to help introduce new listeners to what I consider to be the essential CTI records. Founded by legendary producer Creed Taylor in 1970, CTI Records achieved a legacy ...
Rediscovery: Stony Island
This little-known and even less seen film is about a bunch of poor kids from Chicago's roughest neighborhoods trying to make it as musicians. Sure, this 1978 film suggests any number of more successful films that followed, notably both the Alan Parker films Fame (1980) and The Commitments (1991). But for some reason the world wasn't ...
Reissuing CTI: The Richard Seidel Interview
If you've bought more than one jazz CD in the past thirty years or so, chances are you have at least one that was made possible courtesy of producer Richard Seidel. During his two plus decades at the Verve label, Seidel was responsible for rescuing some of jazz's greatest recordings for the digital age and promoting ...
George Shearing - R.I.P.
The great pianist George Shearing died earlier today in Manhattan of congestive heart failure. The British born pianist turned 91 on August 13 and had been retired from music for several years, his last album being the lovely trio outing Like Fine Wine (Mack Avenue, 2005). Shearing made his name with a quintet that became one ...
