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Request Records: Live At Club 15
by David Rickert
Request Records has recently issued a series of live recordings from Club 15 in Las Vegas, all from 1966. By this time Las Vegas was the world's playground, and a legion of entertainers descended there. Mike Gold broadcast the performances live from the club; his wife and the sound engineer recorded them for posterity. After Gold ...
Various Artists: Righteousness
by Chris May
When founder/producer Alfred Lion retired from Blue Note in 1967, the label was plunged into a creative decline from which it never recovered. If that proposition was put to the critics, chances are most of them would agree. Lion was such a massively influential figure, and the various strands of hard bop he fostered on Blue ...
Various Artists: Pure Fire! A Gilles Peterson Impulse! Collection
by Chris May
Despite including two jaw-droppingly featherweight and disposable tracks--Michael White's “The Blessing Song" and Dave Mackay & Vicky Hamilton's “See You Later"--Pure Fire! is a welcome and timely compilation. Not only because of the other nine tracks, most of which are outstanding, but also because of the two offending pieces of la-la land muzak. The album presents, ...
Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 4: African Dreams & The Piccadilly High Life
by Chris May
Honest Jons' exemplary archival collection of London-recorded Caribbean and African music from the '50s and '60s continues with this fourth, irresistible volume. After the third album's single-artist focus on the seminal Nigerian-expat bandleader Ambrose Adekoya Campbell, the series returns, for the moment anyway, to the broader spectrum of the first two volumes--taking in Trinidadian calypso, South ...
Monterey Pop: Sometimes You Really Can't Go Home Again
by John Kelman
They say you can't go home again, but people often expend a lot of energy proving just the opposite. Anyone who was alive during the so-called Summer of Love in 1967 would like to remember a time of openness and innocence. While Vietnam was full-throttle, Kent State was still three years away. Woodstock was two years ...
Gimme That Old Time Shellac: Two Treasure Troves Of Vintage Americana
by Alexander M. Stern
There is a powerful irony in the modern consumption of old music. When record companies first sent representatives into the Appalachians and the Mississippi Delta, the intention was to record music that the inhabitants of those regions themselves would buy. The idea that people in cities like New York or Boston would be interested in the ...
Various Artists: The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records
by Chris May
From 1965-75, the Impulse! label was what Blue Note had been in the preceding decade--namely, the label that defined its era--but much of its back catalogue has been only fitfully available for years. The release of this four-CD set, plus a label biography and ten single-artist CD compilations, suggests that might be about to change. If ...
A Confusing Musical Story About Pierre Verger
by Norman Weinstein
This is a rumination about a great collector of world music, and an equally great photographer, Pierre Verger, whose name is now on the sleeves of some outstanding world music CDs.I'll return to the particulars of the several discs in the Collection Edition Pierre Verger series. But first, let me share my puzzlement about ...
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
by Norman Weinstein
Various Artists The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records Impulse! 2006 Your reaction to this four-CD box has a great deal to do with whether you give more emphasis to the main title, “The House That Trane Built, or the subtitle, “The Story of Impulse Records. If ...
Various Artists: The Royal Dan
by Jim Santella
For this tribute to the genius of Steely Dan, the Tone Center label brought in ten leading fusion guitarists who apply their veteran skills on one track apiece, doing their best to capture the magnetic force embodied by this memorable rock duo. Several of the musicians appearing here have worked with Steely Dan. Robben ...
