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The Story of Jazz Guitar
by AAJ Staff
While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...
Various Artists: Wish You Too. Best Christmas Ever.
by Nic Jones
If there's such a thing as a cliche about the only Christmas-themed compilation you'll ever need, then this one was made to justify its existence as it's probably that very thing. It's a riot too, of the sort likely to upset the purist as it takes in both Booker T. And The M.G's and the Ramones. ...
Various Artists: 55 Years Of Blues
by Nic Jones
Surely over half a century is more than long enough for anyone to have the blues? Well in Delmark's case the answer's a resounding negative, especially in view of what's on offer here. The very position of the label has of course ensured that it's documented the Chicago scene closely, but as this compilation shows that's ...
Brazil Classics 7: What's Happening in Pernambuco - New Sounds of the Brazilian Northeast
Label: Luaka Bop
Released: 2008
Track listing: Pode Me Chamar; Vale Do Juc
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Titanic Blues: Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan; Wreck of the old 97: Skillet Lickers; Bill Wilson: Birmingham Jug Band; The Crash of the Akron: Bob Miller; The Fate of the Talmadge Osborne: Ernest Stoneman: El Mole Rachmim: Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt; The Wreck of the Virginian: Alfred Reed; Fate of Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Bill Cox; Down Wit the Old Canoe: Dixon Brothers; Wreck of Number 52: Cliff Carlisle; Kassie Jones Part 1: Furry Lewis; Kassie Jones Part 2: furry Lewis; The Brave Engineer: Carver Boys; The Sinking of the Titanic: Richard "Rabbit"
Brazil Classics at 20: Anti-Aging Solutions Revealed
Label: Luaka Bop
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma); Ma; Ca
Miles From India
Label: Times Square Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Spanish Key; All Blues; Ife (Fast); In a Silent Way; It's About That Time; Jean Pierre. CD2: So What; Miles Runs the Voodoo Down; Blue in Green; Great Expectations; Ife (Slow); Miles From India.
Doom & Gloom. Early Songs Of Angst & Disaster 1927-1945
Label: Trikont
Released: 2008
Track listing: God Moves On The Water; Wreck On The Highway; Baltimore Fire; Southern Flood Blues; That Crazy War;
When That Great Ship Went Down; When The Atom Bomb Fell; He
African Rhythms: Afro-Centric Homages to a Spiritual Homeland
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Africaine (Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers); Man from Tanganyika (McCoy Tyner); Afreaka (Lee Morgan); Appointment in Ghana (Jackie McLean); The Feast (Art Blakey); Black Nile (Wayne Shorter); Home is Africa (Horace Parlan); Safari (Horace Silver); Yaba E (Solomon Ilori and his Afro Drum Ensemble). CD2: Kofi (Donald Byrd); Angola (Wayne Shorter); Mr Kenyatta (Lee Morgan); Gbogbo Omo Ibile (Going Home) (Solomon Ilori and his Afro Drum Ensemble); Cunga Black (Freddie Hubbard); Swahili Suite (Blue Mitchell); Ghana Spice Pt.1 (Candido); Abdallah's Delight (Art Blakey).
New York Is Our Home
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Avilla and Tequila (The Jazz Messengers); Minor's Holiday (Kenny Dorham); Caravan (Kenny Burrell); News for Lulu (Sonny Clark); City Lights (Lee Morgan); The Outlaw (Horace Silver); Misterioso (Sonny Rollins); Blue Lights (Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore); We Six (Paul Chambers); Don't Walk (Hank Mobley). CD2: Doodlin (Horace Silver); Gaza Strip (Lee Morgan); Abdullah (Elmo Hope); Buster Rides Again (Bud Powell); The Congregation (Johnny Griffin); Zec (Thad Jones); Algonquin (Curtis Fuller); Ande (Louis Smith); Wee Jay (J.R. Monterose); Coffee Pot (Jay Jay Johnson).
