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Various Artists: Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Vol. 1

Read "Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Vol. 1" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala

Ecco alcune gemme uscite dagli archivi del Creative Music Studio, l'istituzione fondata nel 1971 da Karl Berger, dalla moglie Ingrid e da Ornette Coleman con lo scopo di realizzare musica senza costrizioni di carattere stilistico o commerciale. Ricordiamo le interessanti considerazioni al riguardo di George Lewis, che nel suo testo A Power Stronger Than Itself. The ...

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Various Artists: It's Christmas On Mack Avenue

Read "It's Christmas On Mack Avenue" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

The Detroit-based Mack Avenue imprint has built quite an artist roster over the past fifteen years, so why not boast about it and toast the holidays in the process? It's Christmas On Mack Avenue does just that, turning a spotlight on label mainstays, fairly new signings, heavy hitters, and rapidly ascending stars. It also makes it ...

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Various Artists: Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to The Doors

Read "Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to The Doors" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Southern California-based Purple Pyramid Records and producer, instrumentalist Billy Sherwood raised the bar with this tribute to The Doors by convening a star-studded cast, featuring classic rockers performing with progressive rock luminaries. And the jazz contingent is onboard, evidenced by jazz guitar great Larry Coryell appearing with Focus keyboardist Thijs Van Leer on “Love Me Two ...

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Various Artists: Impulsively Ellington!: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

Read "Impulsively Ellington!: A Tribute to Duke Ellington" reviewed by Marc Davis

by Marc Davis

It's not hard to find Duke Ellington cover songs. Nearly every jazz musician alive (and many long dead) has covered an Ellington tune or two. Some have done entire albums. Ella Fitzgerald did a three-CD set. Many covers are so well-known and so ordinary, they're hardly worth finding. “Sophisticated Lady" has been done to ...

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Various Artists: Jazz on Film: French New Wave

Read "Jazz on Film: French New Wave" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Dannazione faustiana, quella del cofanetto. Immortalità a prezzo conveniente, sfruttando la mortalità dei diritti d'autore e del concetto stesso di disco come entità autonoma, ma rilanciando in qualche caso abbinamenti di senso culturalmente stimolanti. È il caso della serie Jazz on Film, che pubblica degli ottimi box tematici dedicati al jazz ...

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Various Artists: Peru Maravillloso

Read "Peru Maravillloso" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Peru Maravilloso: Vintage Latin, Tropical and Cumbia demonstrates what's best about the digital media revolution: It resurrects 15 singles released by homegrown Peruvian labels across the 1960s and '70s, two of the most vibrant musical decades in the history of Peru (and just about everywhere else). Compiled by label managers Duncan Ballantyne, Andres Tapia and Martin ...

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Various Artists: Postcards From Italy

Read "Postcards From Italy" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Sound artists, like their brethren mail artists, adhere to the motto “sound art is not fine art, it is the artist who is fine." Born out of phonography, or the audio equivalent of photography, field recordings capture the native sounds of a place. For the Postcards From Italy project, the collective AIPS (the Archivio Italiano dei ...

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Various Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard

By Various Artists

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Work Hard: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man - Clem Garner/Alfred Meng/Earl McCoy; Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic #2) - David McCarn/David McCam; I've Got the Chain Store Blues - Allen Bros; Farmer Is the Man Who Feeds Them All - Fiddlin' John Carson; Farmer's Dream - Oscar Ford; When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger - Earl Johnson; Jerry, Go Ile That Car - Harry McClintock/Mac McClintock; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 1 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Flat Wheel Train Blues, Pt. 2 - Jack Wellman/Red Gay; Driving Saw Logs on the Plover - Pierre La Dieu; All Bound Down in Texas - Darby & Tarlton; Poor Boy Long Ways from Home - Buell Kazee; Diamond Joe - Georgia Crackers. CD2: Play Hard: Work Don't Bother Me - Gid Tanner; Soldier's Joy - North Carolina Hawaiians; Fourth of July at the Country Fair - Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers; McDonald's Farm - Warren Caplinger; Barnyard Frolic - Carolina Ramblers String Band; Home Brew Rag - Cherokee Ramblers; Corn-Shucking Party in Georgia; Beer Party - Charlie Wilson and his Hayloft Gang; Charleston Rag - Aiken County String Band; Tennessee Coon Hunt - Whit Gaydon; Too Tight Rag - Hack String Band; Cheat 'Em - Allen Bros; Hide Away - Oscar Ford; Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible - Tennessee Ramblers. CD3: Pray Hard: You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine - Gid Tanner; Climbing the Golden Stairs - Happy Four; Oh Declare His Glory - McDonald Quartette; Easter Day - The Dixon Brothers; I'm S-A-V-E-D - Georgia Yellow Hammers; Way to Glory Land - Corley Family; You Must Be a Lover of the Lord - Fields Ward and the Grayson County Railsplitters; Gambler's Dying Words, The - Grady Moore/Sid Harkreader; I'm on My Way - Kentucky Holiness Singers; Leave It There - Snowball & Sunshine; Where We'll Never Grow Old - Alfred G. Karnes; If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul - Ernest Phipps and the Holiness Singers; When the Moon Drips Away Into the Blood - Taylor Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers; Beyond the Starry Plane - Red Brush Singers; My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love - Elder G.P. Harris.

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Jazz on Film: Beat, Square & Cool

By Various Artists

Label: Moochin' About
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: The Wild One: The Wild One; Blues for Brando; Windswept; Chino; Lonely Way; Beetle; Hotshoe; Scramble; Bewildered; Black Rebel’s Ride; Prelude to a Rumble; Drag For Beers. Crime in the Streets: The Plot; The Crime; The Celebration CD2: I Want To Live: Theme from I Want to Live; Black Nightgown; Night Watch; Frisco Club; Barbara’s theme; Life’s a Funny Thing; Main Title; Poker Game; San Diego Party; Henry Leaves; Stakeout; Barbara Surrenders; Trio Convicted; Trip to Corona; Peg’s Visit; Gas Chamber Unveiling; Nightmare Sequence; Preparations for Execution; Letter Writing Sequence; The Last Mile; Death Scene; End Title. CD3: Les Tricheurs: Les Tricheurs; Clo’s Blues; Phil’s Tune; Mic’s Jump; On the Alamo; Get Happy; Sweet Georgia Brown. Paris Blues: Take the A Train; Battle Royal (aka Big Bash); Birdie Jungle; Mood Indigo; Autumnal Suite; Nite; Wild Man Moore; Paris Stairs; Guitar Amour; Paris Blues CD4: The Subterraneans: Main Title (Film Version); Bread and Wine; Things are Looking Down; Red Drum Blues; Should I ? Coffee Time; Source No. 1 (Guido’s Blackhawk); Source No 2; Balloon; Main Title (Leo and Mardou); Alarm Clock (Raising Caen); Spaghetti Factory; Roxanne at Ariel’s; Togethernes; Look Ma No Clothes; A Rose and the End; Analyst/I'm Leo/Yuri and Leo; Two by Two/Leo and His Mama. CD5: Shadows: Untitled Percussion Composition; Nostalgia in Times Square; Alice’s Wonderland; Self Portrait in Three Colours.

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Various Artists: Rework_ Philip Glass Remixes

By Various Artists

Label: Orange Mountain Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1; Rubric Remix; Knee 1 Remix; Alight Spiral Ship; Warda's Whorehouse - Inside Out Version; Warda's Whorehouse; Etoile Polaire - Litter Dippe; Floe '87 Remix; Opening from Glassworks. CD2: NYC:73-78, Protest Remix; Mad Rush Organ Remix; Island Remix


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