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Various Artists: 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Woodrow Wilkins
Christmas often brings out the best in people. That certainly applies to David Benoit and the artists he assembled for 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas. With fresh takes on several Vince Guaraldi compositions that appeared on the animated Peanuts television series, as well as some traditional holiday offerings, this collection of twelve songs is an ...
Various Artists: Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by Sandy Ingham
An extraordinary hurricane benefit concert took place at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on September 17, just two weeks after Katrina washed away much of New Orleans. The five-hour show brought together a dazzling array of jazz and pop stars, and notables from stage and screen who recited tributes to the birthplace of jazz ...
Various Artists: Our New Orleans 2005
by AAJ Staff
One of the best and most tragic ways we have to know how much something matters is to go through the experience of having it taken away. To the people of lowland New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was the end of a way of life. To the people of the United States, New Orleans herself winked out ...
Vision Festival Vol. 3 CD/DVD/Book
by Eyal Hareuveni
Various Artists Vision Vol. 3 (CD + DVD) Arts for Art / AUM Fidelity 2005 Regretfully, the first decade of New York's Vision Festival has not been documented properly--at least officially (any proficient web surfer can download many live audience recordings from each year of the festival). So ...
Various Artists: Doo Wop: Vocal Group Greats
by Charlie B. Dahan
Shout Factory has again released a companion boxset to a PBS special scheduled for December, this time dealing with the golden era of doo-wop music. The founders of Shout Factory (the brothers Foos) released a similar boxed collection of doo wop in an earlier incarnation at Rhino to critical and consumer acclaim, and they hit the ...
Various Artists: Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by R. Emmet Sweeney
The results of benefit concerts are always superior to the music they produce. Money is raised and collective guilt is soothed, but these events are usually plagued by performances of inflated self-congratulation. Wynton Marsalis, no stranger to patting his own back, puts his ego in his back pocket for the Jazz at Lincoln Center-produced Higher Ground ...
I. Christmas 2005: Something Old...
by C. Michael Bailey
Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this piece, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. Add to this, the deluge of holiday music, all worthy of ...
II. Christmas 2005: Something New...
by C. Michael Bailey
Something Old | Something New | Something Strange | And Something Smooth As I write this, my home base in Arkansas this holiday season is experiencing record high temperatures. Eighty-degree weather in mid-November does not set one up for anticipating the holidays. That sets the stage for a more expansive list than in past ...
Various Artists: Congotronics 2
by Chris May
Earlier this year, the Congolese trance band known as Konono No. 1--a Mad Maxian agglomeration featuring ingenious and massive DIY amplification, electronically distorted, outsize likembe thumb pianos, and drum and percussion instruments made from recycled industrial scrap--burst out of Kinshasa to shock and awe the European music scene with Congotronics. It wasn't a jazz album by ...
Various Artists: Piano Works
by Chris May
An unlikely quartet of pianists to share the same box set, Joachim Kuhn, George Gruntz, Kevin Hays, and Ramon Valle contribute one solo CD apiece, each of them standing up as an individual work. But as it turns out, each of them also complements and is enhanced by its close proximity to the others. The Piano ...
