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Various Artists: The Harlem Experiment
by Chris May
On the face of it, The Harlem Experiment sounds like a winner. A multi-generational, multi-cultural cast of A list players--including singer Taj Mahal, trumpeter Steven Bernstein, reed player Don Byron, drummer Steve Berrios and bassist Ruben Rodriguez--revisiting a dozen or so soul, funk, Latin, jazz and pop cuts with heavy New York associations, and with the ...
Various Artists: Viva Carlos!
by Woodrow Wilkins
If Carlos Santana isn't the best electric guitarist of all time, he's easily one of the most revered. From classic rock songs like “Black Magic Woman and “Europa to more recent collaborations with pop singers like Rob Thomas ("Smooth ) and Michelle Branch ("The Game of Love ), Santana is perhaps the most recognized name in ...
Various Artists: Free Zone Appleby 2006
by John Eyles
In Memory of Paul Rutherford (1940-2007) The Sunday afternoon free improvisation sessions at the annual Appleby Festival always set a high standard. This line-up for 2006 raised particularly high expectations, and it doesn't disappoint. With the untimely death in August 2007 of trombonist Paul Rutherford--a giant of the music and a true gentleman also--this ...
Various Artists: House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin': Celebrating 15 Years of The Rhythm Room
by Charlie B. Dahan
Does it get any hotter than the average temperature in Phoenix (Arizona) in mid-August? Well, yes, if you enter the four walls of the Rhythm Room. Blue Witch Record has released House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin'--a fourteen-song compilation of live cuts from the last fifteen years produced by the club's owner and harmonica player, Bob Corritone. ...
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others: Gypsy Jazz
by Chris May
Sarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others Gypsy Jazz Proper Records 2007 This wonderful 4CD collection of Gypsy jazz--an Aladdin's Cave of rarities, curiosities and lesser known virtuosi of the genre--covers the first twenty or so years of the music's history. Disc one starts in 1934, with future Quintette Du Hot ...
Various Artists: Freeway Jam: To Beck and Back - A Tribute
by John Kelman
Of the guitarists who emerged from the seminal British pop group The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck was always the intrepid risk-taker. Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page would go on to greater fame and fortune, while Beck's career has been consistent only in its inconsistency. Freeway Jam: To Beck and Back - A Tribute is the inevitable tribute ...
Various Artists: Freedom Of The City 2006
by Nic Jones
The Freedom Of The City Festival has taken place annually in London, England for a number of years now and Emanem have been on hand on a number of occasions to get some of the music down for posterity. If the evidence on offer here is anything to go by it's nothing but a worthwhile endeavor. ...
Various Artists: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
by Scott Gilliam
To most casual jazz fans Duke Ellington wrote some of the most enduring compositions in the history of American music. The ardent fan, however, acknowledges that many of the tunes attributed to the Duke were actually composed by or in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn. Lush Life pays tribute to pianist/composer Strayhorn and his contribution to jazz ...
Various Artists: Jumpin' & Jivin' Volume 1
by Chris May
Various Artists Jumpin' & Jivin' Volume 1 Acorn Media 2007 The majority of the items in this wonderful nostalgia fest are “soundies" recorded 1941-1945, augmented by clips from movie shorts made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are 27 tracks, comprising swing, jump bands, jazz-inflected vocal ...
Various Artists: 20 Ways to Float Through Walls
by Ian Patterson
You don't have to go to Borneo's Rainforest Festival to catch Congolese thumb-piano musicians, riotous Balkan brass bands, Iranian divas, psychotic big-band jazz or chic bossa nova; Crammed Discs has it all, and more, on 20 Ways to Float Through Walls. Throughout its quarter century existence Crammed Discs has produced an eclectic body of work which ...
