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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 ...
Various Artists: Sax In The City
by Stephen Latessa
A collection of New York's best women jazz instrumentalists would be an enticing compilation in and of itself, but throw in the fact that proceeds from the CD will benefit breast cancer charities and the project is very hard to pass up. Organized by alto saxophonist Laura Dreyer, Sax In The City features eleven tracks led ...
Various Artists: Gospel for JFP III: Tribute to Jaco Pastorius
by Mark F. Turner
Paying homage to one of jazz music's greatest electric bass players seems an effortless and genuine mission on this new release dedicated to the late John Francis (Jaco) Pastorius III, who left an unforgettable mark on the hearts of musicians and fans across the globe. His brief but profound career spanned recordings with guitarist Pat Metheny ...
Various Artists: Period's Jazz Digest
by AAJ Staff
The catalog of Period Records, which issued jazz and blues albums between 1954 and 1958, has been acquired by Empire Musicwerks, the same company that has begun reissuing the old Everest catalogue. This delightful compilation, which contains some previously unissued tracks, is the company's first Period reissue. Although Period recorded more modern artists such ...
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