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Various Artists: Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
by C. Michael Bailey
Jim Stewart founded Satellite Records in 1957 and was joined by his sister Estelle Axton a year later, changing the label name to Stax (from the morpheme formed by Jim STewart and Estelle AXton) in 1961. Between 1961 and the label's agonizing demise in 1976, Stax released Southern soul classics that included the singles “Soul Man ...
Cumulative Index of African Music CD Reviews
by AAJ Staff
In Africa, music occupies a central role in human existence--from birth to death, from somber ritual to joyous celebration. Traditional African music has passed from generation to generation over hundreds of years; because master musicians occupy a very prominent position in society, their art serves many roles. Instruments, forms, and arrangements go back before recorded history.
Various Artists: Rough Guide to the Blues
by Robert R. Calder
It's not clear whether this CD has been compiled with the idea of it being listened to or as some kind of token or souvenir. You can have your own copy of Mamie Smith's “Crazy Blues," the first ever Blues recording? It would have been better, in representing the so-called Classic Blues, to have included Ida ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2006
by John Eyles
As the Freedom of the City 2007 festival draws near, here is a timely reminder of the quality of the music that can always be expected there. Although the three groupings here do not feature any “household names, they do contain many decades of experience at playing improvised music, and that is what shines through on ...
Various Artists: Backspin: A Six Degrees 10 Year Anniversary Project
by Chris M. Slawecki
Upon this year's tenth anniversary celebration of Six Degrees Records, label co-founder and president Bob Duskis explains, “We like poking holes in the notion of what 'world music' is, or is not. And to commemorate the anniversary, we wanted to do something surprising and different. The label's tenth anniversary celebratory release, Backspin, presents ...
Give the Singers Some!
by Chris M. Slawecki
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Singers Ruth Naomi Floyd Root to the Fruit ...
Various Artists: One More: The Summary: Music Of Thad Jones, Vol. 2
by Jim Santella
This 2005 all-star session features contemporaries of trumpeter/bandleader/composer Thad Jones (1923-86) in a program that includes many of his significant compositions. Music of Thad Jones, Vol. 2 honors his memory through straight-ahead interpretations that swing enthusiastically. The Jones brothers--pianist Hank, trumpeter Thad and drummer Elvin--have all brought greatness to the jazz world through their ...
Various Artists: One More: The Summary: Music Of Thad Jones, Vol. 2
by Michael P. Gladstone
How do you follow up One More: Music of Thad Jones, a well-received album from 2004? The obvious answer is to round up as many of the musicians as possible from that session for a sequel. The result is a most pleasant trip for fans of big band jazz, and afficionados of trumpeter/composer/arranger/bandleader Thad Jones.
Various Artists: Jazz and Blues on Edison, Volume 1
by Robert R. Calder
In some part a sampling of 1920s American popular music--sublime, quaint, occasionally ridiculous, livelier than mass market roaring Twenties pastiches--this set of unissued recordings from a quality label abandoned seventy years back includes one big footnote to jazz scholarship. That footnote's not in the stock 1920 (Vincent) Lopez performance of ragtime with military band echoes, or ...
Various Artists: Endless Highway: The Music of The Band
by John Kelman
At a time when Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Doors ruled, The Band was an anomaly. First emerging as the backing band for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins before moving on to greater visibility behind Bob Dylan, The Band eschewed the hippy attire and attitude of the time, carrying the distinct look of an earlier time ...
