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Stan Getz: Quintets - The Clef and Norgran Studio Albums
By Stan Getz
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2010
Jan Johansson: In Hamburg with Georg Riedel
by Ian Patterson
Jan JohanssonIn Hamburg with Georg RiedelACT Music2011 The small number of posthumous releases in the 42 years since the death of Swedish jazz pianist/composer Jan Johansson at the age of 37 remains something of a mystery. Johansson--who pianist Esbjorn Svensson described as being “a very, very big influence“--has ...
Femi Temowo: Orin Meta
by Chris May
Femi TemowoOrin MetaFemitone Records2011 The British jazz and black music scene started beating a path to guitarist Femi Temowo's door ten years ago. No sooner had he graduated from Middlesex University with a degree in Jazz Studies than he was featured on jazz, rap and samples group ...
Take Five With Quentin Angus
by AAJ Staff
Meet Quentin Angus: Australian-born guitarist Quentin Angus is a name to remember. He has performed in Japan, USA, Australia, Europe and New Zealand, including Jazz Hoeilaart (Belgium), and the Adelaide International Guitar Festival. Angus has released one album as a band leader, Retrieval Structure, in 2011, and several as a side man, including recording/ ...
Clifford Brown: With Strings
by Chris May
Clifford BrownWith StringsEmarcy1955 Recordings setting soloists alongside string ensembles were not a staple of the bop years, but, when trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded With Strings, he had two illustrious predecessors. In 1946, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded four Jerome Kern standards with an ensemble arranged by Johnny Richards. ...
Chris May's Best Releases of 2011
by Chris May
2011 produced a bigger than usual crop of engaging new albums and important reissues. In no special order, here are ten new releases and five reissues: la crème de la crème. Waitiki 7 In Hi-Fi (Pass Out)
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Wave
by Chris May
Antonio Carlos JobimWaveCTI/A&M1967 Singer, guitarist, pianist and--above all--composer Antonio Carlos Jobim was among the first artists to be signed by producer Creed Taylor when he set up CTI Records in 1967. The Brazilian, who helped launch bossa nova internationally when his tune “Desafinado" became a Top 10 ...
Pat Martino Quartet: Undeniable
by Chris May
Pat Martino QuartetUndeniableHighNote2011 Hot buttered soul-jazz, Batman, guitarist Pat Martino's Undeniable is the business! Recorded live at Washington's Blues Alley in June 2009, with tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, organist Tony Monaco and drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts, it harks back to Martino's early to mid 1960s roots in ...
