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Dave Grusin "A Dry White Season"
More than twenty years following the release of the 1989 film A Dry White Season and on the 21st anniversary of the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela—which signaled the end of South African Apartheid—the film-music specialists, Kritzerland, have issued the first-ever soundtrack to the riveting 1989 film that starred Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon ...
John Barry - R.I.P.
The film world lost one of its greatest composers with the death of John Barry, who died yesterday in New York at age 77. Barry, who had long lived in New York, is said to have died of a heart attack. But official details have not yet been released. John Barry, born November 3, 1933, in ...
50 Years with Jazzclarinet: The Best of Lajos Dudas
The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz, from its early progenitors Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall and George Lewis to such later famed instrumentalists as Ted Lewis, Don Murray, Pee Wee Russell, Peanuts Hucko, Artie Shaw and, of course, Benny Goodman. But you'd never know it ...
Celebrating CTI Records' 40th Anniversary - Part Two
Sony's Masterworks Jazz imprint continues its 40th anniversary celebration of the legendary CTI Records legacy with an additional six titles, issued this week: Deodato's Prelude, George Benson's White Rabbit, Milt Jackson's Sunflower, Jim Hall's Concierto, Paul Desmond's Pure Desmond and Ron Carter's All Blues. Two of the discs are among CTI's most historic and essential releases ...
Mayo Bucher on ECM
ECM Records long ago established and has since maintained its own aural brand of musical definition, something that has rightly or wrongly come to be known as the “ECM sound" or what label hype in the 1970s called “the most beautiful sound next to silence." This “sound by design" is something that label founder Manfred Eicher ...
Bill Evans His Piano and Orchestra Play Theme from the V.I.P.S and Other Great Songs
Like many controversial films or books that take some effort or expense to understand properly, some records are better known by their reputation than by their actual merit. This particularly unwieldy album, bearing a significantly unwieldy title, certainly ranks among these. As a pianist, Bill Evans (1929-80) was seldom captured in orchestral situations. When he was, ...
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Main Title)" by Alex North
One of the loveliest pieces of music ever heard in film is surely the Alex North theme to the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Much of the work North (1910-91) did fell between the later phase of the Golden Age era of film music and the earliest part of the Silver Age era, and ...
Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM
For those of us of a certain age, buying music was once considered something special. It wasn't only just getting that one song you liked. It wasn't even the excitement of owning someone's latest album. Buying music in the last half of the 20th Century—for me, the 1970s and 80s especially—meant getting a record that introduced ...
Just Jazz!
Like many “lost" jazz albums, there is a convoluted story behind this album. But the result, certainly as presented on this Jazz Beat CD, is worth the telling. The Audio Fidelity label had helped revolutionize stereophonic recordings in 1957. By April 1962, the label commissioned the great Benny Golson, who was then at the helm of ...
Joe Farrell CTI Classics Now on CD
During the 1960s, reed player Joe Farrell (born Joseph Carl Firrantello) had logged many hours and waxed many sides with Maynard Ferguson, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and Elvin Jones, with whom he had the greatest opportunity to prove his mettle as a fine soloist. Still, despite these notable associations, hardly anyone ...
