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Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

By Dave Brubeck

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 1997
Track listing: Opening; The Star Spangled Banner; For All We Know; Fine And Mellow; Blueport; Blue Daniel; Straight No Chaser; Chelsea Bridge; Don.

Music From and Inspired By The Motion Picture - Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

By Various Artists

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 1997
Track listing:

Skylark; Too Marvelous For Words; Autumn Leaves; Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread); Dream; Days Of Wine And Roses; That Old Black Magic; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive; This Time The Dream's On Me; Laura; Midnight Sun; I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande); I Wanna Be Around.

Personnell : k.d.lang, Joe Williams, Paula Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Cassandra Wilson, Kevin Spacey, Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Alison Krauss, Kevin Mahogany, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett - vocals; Brad Mehldau, Alan Broadbent - piano; Charlie Haden, Christian McBride, Larry Grenadier - bass; Joshua Redman, Ernie Watts, Peter Christlieb, Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone; Ralph Penland, Gregory Hutchinson, Larance Marble - drums; Kevin Eubanks, Russell Malone - guitar; Domenic Cortese - accordian.

Black Saint/Soul Note Critics Pick Sampler, Vols. 1 and 2

By Various Artists

Label: Black Saint
Released: 1997

Various Artists: Music From and Inspired By The Motion Picture - Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 1997

Clint Eastwood is on a role. After winning critical acclaim for his modern Western Unforgiven, Eastwood has enjoyed the clout to pursue the projects that he has been interested in. One of those projects was the launching of his own jazz label, Malpaso. Another of those projects was the attempt to produce a movie adaptation of ...

Various Artists: Black Saint/Soul Note Critics Pick Sampler, Vols. 1 and 2

by Joel Roberts
December 1, 1997

Since 1977, the Milan-based Black Saint/Soul Note label has established a reputation among jazz lovers for its uncompromising commitment to cutting-edge, non-mainstream music. The artists featured on the label's 500 releases (all of which remain in print) include most of the leaders of the avant-garde and modern creative movements of the past twenty years, such as ...

Various Artists: Texas Tenors

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 1997

Like Chicago, Texas is well known for its tenors--big-toned, fat, soulful, hard-blowing, gutsy tenors. This CD reminds us that Prestige did its part to document Texas-style tenors; even if a particular player on this CD didn't live in Texas his entire life, the Lone Starr connection was there. Texas tenors loved the blues, and we hear ...

Various Artists: Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 1, 1997

In my wilder, more unforgiving days, I might have merely typed up the personnel and set list and submitted only that in review of Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, and argued to the powers-that-be that if the reader couldn’t comprehend its abundant magnificence of music from the unadorned facts, my descriptive and persuasive prowess would ...

Various Artists: Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

by Chris M. Slawecki
August 1, 1997

People continue to argue about what is and is not “jazz." One of the more consistent topics in the contemporary extension of this age-old argument is “acid-jazz" – is “acid jazz" jazz, or not? This gets even more frustrating when it seems that there’s no consensus as to what “acid jazz" means, either.

Various Artists: That Old Black Magic - The Harold Arlen Songbook

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 1997

The latest homage in Verve's outstanding songwriter's songbook series is paid To Harold Arlen. Not as well known, even among musicians and singers, as Gershwin, Porter, and Kern, Harold Arlen nevertheless produced a body of work that is as ingrained in American musical culture as any of his better know piers. Born into a Jewish family ...

Various Artists: Blues In the Night - The Johnny Mercer Songbook

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 1997

What is it about the jazz standard that makes it so affecting? Jazz fans can be moved to tears, shouts, and everything in-between by exceptional renditions of their favorite “classics." Generations of people have attached memories and significance to songs such as “Autumn Leaves" and “Mood Indigo." The ability to produce such a song, ...