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Various Artists: Mister Bond - A Jazzy Cocktail Of Ice Cold Themes
by Mark Sabbatini
The new James Bond can't drive a stick shift, is indecisive about martinis, and plays poker instead of baccarat. If that sounds appealing, this is the album for you. Mister Bond strips the rockin' energy of various familiar title tracks and rearranges them as sleepy smooth/Latin compositions lacking the musicmanship necessary to jolt them out of ...
Mosaic Singles Make Their Debut
by C. Andrew Hovan
Having the guts and tenacity to champion the reissue of albums that the major labels at the time weren't willing to touch with a ten foot pole, Mosaic Records back in the mid '80s led to way for the type of comprehensive boxed sets that are now the norm. Then a few years ago they launched ...
New Exit From Brooklyn: Chris Speed's Skirl Records
by Troy Collins
In April of 2006, Brooklyn resident and multi-instrumentalist Chris Speed launched his new artist-run independent label, Skirl Records. Six months in and the label already boasts four titles, with at least another one or two tentatively planned for release before the end of the year. As a document of the fertile Brooklyn scene, Skirl has few ...
Various Artists: The Royal Dan: A Tribute
by Woodrow Wilkins
Steely Dan, a rock band with jazz and blues influences in its music, has stood the test of time. The group's original albums from the 1970s are as good today as they were when they were new. Some of their classic songs have been covered by a number of pop and jazz acts, including “Josie, “FM ...
Various Artists: Viva Carlos!
by John Kelman
Guitarist Jeff Richman continues his series of tribute albums with Viva Carlos!, an homage to guitarist Carlos Santana that manages to accomplish what most tributes can't: actually improve on its source. Santana's tone and style are immediately recognizable, but when compared to the players enlisted here, the Mexican-born guitarist simply doesn't have the vocabulary. He's dabbled ...
Various Artists: Flags of Our Fathers
by Jim Santella
Clint Eastwood has put together a soundtrack to match the heart-grabbing film Flags of Our Fathers. With this release of music from the motion picture, we are able to relive the action and the emotion through the film's score. Eastwood composed much of the music. Lennie Niehaus conducts a studio orchestra that delivers, and ...
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 ...
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