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Various Artists: Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
by Jim Santella
The disasters that struck New Orleans this year affected all of us deeply. We've watched and read and listened intently as the news unfolded. Tragic stories and heroic adventures combined with political jibe to take over. This hasn't been about some group of strangers from afar; it's hit us hard, and the hurt is still with ...
Various Artists: Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked
by John Kelman
While traditionalists will probably balk at the idea of applying modern remix techniques to classic 1960s material from the Impulse! catalogue, Impulsive! does a good job of extending musical creativity beyond the traditional purview of the original composer/performers. After all, British saxophonist Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble gives equal billing to conventional instrumentalists and the artists who ...
Various Artists: 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Jim Santella
Oh, to be a child again and to spend Christmas morning surrounded by the things that Santa Claus left you overnight... Bringing us those Charlie Brown memories from our early television years is an all-star lineup of smooth jazz artists who appreciate the music as much as we do. Surrounded by a large studio ...
100 Years of Jazz Guitar
by Jim Santella
Various Artists 100 Years of Jazz Guitar Columbia/Legacy 2005 Containing a veritable encyclopedia of written information about the guitarists who have molded jazz during its century of development, this four-CD boxed set has it all. From the earliest recorded traces of jazz guitar to Bill Frisell and John ...
Various Artists: F-IRE Works: Volume 2
by Chris May
The inventions and glories of London's F-IRE collective have been well documented here this year, and several tracks on this double-disc set--pieces like Polar Bear's “Fluffy (I Want You)," Acoustic Ladyland's “Remember," and Julia Biel's “Where Is She Now?"--revisit the highlights. The album also serves up a heap of new material, most of it from CDs ...
Various Artists: Verve Remixed 3
by Chris M. Slawecki
Annual Verve Remixed projects match up trip-hop and electronic music producers with historic treasures from the label's vaults in order to update or contemporize them. This third volume predominantly features female vocalists like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, and Anita O'Day, from among whom Sarah Vaughan gleefully steals the show. RSL, a sound ...
Various Artists: Italian Cafe
by Woodrow Wilkins
To an English-only American, foreign words and phrases can be most daunting. However, when put to music, the picture can be quite different. Fred Buscaglione demonstrates that on “Juke Box, the opening track to Putumayo's Italian Café, a charming, delightful collection of twelve songs that blend Italian heritage with some American musical styles, such as jazz ...
Independent Exposure: Part 1
by Eric J. Iannelli
The DIY ethic has been prevalent in rock music for several decades now, perhaps seeing its most significant explosion during the punk era of the late '70s. It would later give rise to a whole genre unto itself, otherwise known as “indie," or independent, characterized by artists who deliberately aimed to bypass the formal, big-money channels ...
New Offerings From Clean Feed
by Mark Corroto
If you have to pick a label to mark an era in jazz, you might suggest Prestige in the 1950s, Blue Note ('60s), CTI ('70s), Columbia ('80s), and Knitting Factory ('90s) as the spokesmen for those particular decades of jazz. With this new century came an evolution in do-it-yourself musicians and the inevitable revolution into the ...
Various Artists: Lagos Chop Up
by Chris May
An inspired trawl through the treasure trove that is urban Nigerian social music of the late '60s through mid '80s--a laid-back, all-night, intertribal dance party featuring classic highlife, Afrobeat, juju, and fuji hits of the era in all their four-track, one-take, original glory. The '70s, give or take, were arguably the Golden Age of ...
