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Jazz Super Hits & Soul Party
by Jim Santella
These two albums from Tower Records' “Exclusive CDs from Blue Note compilation series feature classic jazz in a celebration of good music and how it makes us feel. It's uplifting. Each of these selected gems connects as the feeling goes right through us. Various Artists Jazz Super Hits Blue Note ...
Various Artists: Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years 1965-76
by AAJ Staff
Following his departure from Johannesburg in 1961--around the same time that many other South African musicians put apartheid behind them--Hugh Masekela ensconced himself in New York and settled in to make a heap of recordings over the ensuing decades. Masekela, who first drew attention for his straight-ahead jazz playing, would eventually build an enormous American and ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2005
by John Eyles
An eagerly anticipated annual release, the Freedom of the City CD is an essential complement to the live festival, providing the opportunity to check recalled perceptions against objective evidence and to fill in unavoidable gaps, but mostly--whether or not one was there--to catch some great music. Largely for financial reasons, the 2005 London festival was a ...
Various Artists: Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
by Troy Collins
As a musical form that skirts the line between popular entertainment and highbrow art, jazz has always found itself embroiled in aesthetic controversy. As such, it has inevitably had its share of run-ins with those who would see fit to keep it “pure." But jazz is not a pure art form, it's one of the most ...
Various Artists: Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by Ernest Barteldes
On September 17, 2005, Jazz at Lincoln Center brought together an ensemble of musicians responding to Wynton Marsalis' call to stage a benefit for victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The document of that event is this CD, in which well-known mainstream stars share the stage with more obscure names, performing modern and traditional jazz, folk, ...
Various Artists: Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
by David A. Cobb
The problem with remixes--and electronic music in general--is repetition. More often than not, a particular song may have so much going on, especially if it's jazz, that artists who attempt remixes stick with a minimalist approach that ends up rehashing the same beats, the same phrases, and the same samples to the end. Impulsive!, for the ...
Various Artists: Rembetika: Songs Of The Greek Underground 1925-1947
by Chris May
Flamenco, fado and tango are firm fixtures on the world music jukebox, but their close cultural equivalent, Greek rembetika, is overdue on the playlist. In Greece itself, roots artists and audiences are rediscovering the tradition in a big way, and a new generation of singers and instrumentalists is emerging to take the music forward. The rest ...
Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
by Michael McCaw
Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked Impulse! 2005 Remix projects in general have more than their fair share of naysayers. And where often the crux of their arguments center around the issue of taking an established piece of art and adding unneeded elements or simply implying these projects are only ...
Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary, Vol.1
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tin Roof Blues, Mack the Knife, By An' Bye, Echoe of Spring, Just You Just Me, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue, One O'Clock Jump, Tiger in Your Tank, Sweet Little Sixteen or Johnny B. Goode.
New Orleans
Label: Putumayo World Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Drop Me Off in New Orleans; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Basin Street Blues; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; The Devil Done Got Me Blues; Tin Roof Blues; Basin Street Blues; Give it Up (Gypsy Second Line); Going Back to New Orleans; Bye and Bye / When the Saints Go Marching In.
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