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Various Artists: Songs That Made the Phone Light Up

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

A compilation package with an interesting twist: Joel Dorn, the mastermind behind the controversial (and great) Rhino boxes of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mingus, Trane, et al, has collected 13 songs beloved of his listeners on WHAT-FM in Philadelphia during the Sixties. He explains that besides all being favorites of his audience, none of these songs were ...

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Various Artists: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil"

by Jim Santella
January 1, 1998

Clint Eastwood, who in 1971 incorporated footage from the Monterey Jazz Festival into his film directorial debut ("Play Misty For Me"), has released a Johnny Mercer songbook to accompany the current box-office hit set in Savannah and centered around a true-life murder that took place in the Mercer House. Established in 1860 by Mercer's great grandfather, ...

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Various Artists: Priceless Jazz Collection Sampler

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Okay, so your officemate, or your son, for goodness' sake, comes up and asks you, “What is this 'jazz,' anyway?" Time to haul out GRP's Priceless Jazz Collection Sampler. You get Billie Holiday sounding a trifle detached ("Good Morning Heartache"); Ella Fitzgerald scatting with as much verve as ever ("Oh, Lady Be Good"); Louis Armstrong playing ...

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Various Artists: Standards On Impulse!

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Standards on Impulse! is a collection disc with a few twists, but not as many as one might expect from that label's classic Sixties roster. Art Blakey kicks off the proceedings with a driving version of Gershwin's “Summertime" that seems to owe a bit to John Coltrane's 1960 version, three years before this recording. Here Sonny ...

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Jazz Fusions 4

By Various Artists

Label: Fusion
Released: 1997

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A Twist of Jobim

By Dave Grusin

Label: i.e. Music
Released: 1997
Track listing: Water To Drink (Agua De Beber); Captain Bacardi; Dindi; Waters Of March; Bonita; Stone Flower; Favela; Children's Games; Lamento; Mojave; Girl From Ipanema.

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