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Various Artists: Swing Gitan: The Django Reinhardt NY Festival, Live at Birdland 2002
by Brian P. Lonergan
From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django Reinhardt Festival, live at Birdland in 2002, the music--jangling guitars, pumping accordion, swinging violins, and wailing reeds--is so energetic, exuberant, and ...
Various Artists: Period's Jazz Digest
by David Rickert
Period Records was a high-end classical label that also dabbled in jazz and blues for a brief time in the fifties. The Jazz Digest LPs sampled the label's jazz and blues output, a move that at the time was innovative and proved to be quite popular. It was thus possible to hear Charles Mingus and Big ...
Various Artists: The Colors of Latin Jazz
by Woodrow Wilkins
The title of this compilation may be a bit misleading, or at least incomplete. Certainly, the music fits into the Latin jazz category. However, once it starts, The Colors of Latin Jazz '- Soul Cookin' sounds like a smorgasbord of sounds one might expect at an African-American or Hispanic family barbecue. This collection of party music ...
Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 2
by Chris May
Vibrant and beautiful almost beyond words, the fifty year old recordings being collected on Honest Jons' London Is The Place For Me series are giant and precious treasures of early black British music. Exquisite artistic achievements in their own right, they also throw light on the early development of post bop jazz in the UK.
Various Artists: Afro-Latin Party
by Woodrow Wilkins
Some of the most straightforward music comes from the islands of the Caribbean. Whether inspired by raw emotion or a simple desire to groove, no gimmicks are needed to deliver a sound that makes you want to dance or simply bob your head to the rhythm. In recognizing this, Putumayo has packaged an excellent collection of ...
Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute
by Walter Kolosky
Various Artists Visions of an Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute Tone Center 2005 Tone Center, Mike Varney's fusion-only label, is not only helping to keep the genre in good shape--it's pumping it full of steroids. Last year the label released A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in ...
Various Artists: Hot Club de France
by Germein Linares
The Hot Club de France was more of an appreciation society than an actual club or establishment in France. The group issued newsletters, sponsored radio broadcasts and film appearances, and produced records. A small phenomenon at home, this underground jazz movement soon swelled to worldwide tours and festivals by the late '40s. Milan Records has gone ...
Various Artists: One More: Music of Thad Jones
by Jack Bowers
The term “all-star is used often these days to describe many groups, some of which even deserve the label. One More (which could be the name of this eight-member co-op or the album itself; your guess is as good as mine) doesn't call itself an all-star ensemble, but it could. Hank Jones, James Moody, Frank Wess, ...
Various Artists: Gospel for JFP III: Tribute to Jaco Pastorius
by Alain Londes
This tribute to the late Jaco Pastorius is like a musical kaleidoscope that makes the inquisitive listener wonder what color will come next. The large number of musicians featured includes some who had the chance to play with Pastorius, as well as others who were influenced by him. Most tunes were written by the great bassist, ...
Various Artists: Circa 1960
by Jack Bowers
This is an interesting album, historically speaking, as the first five tracks are taken from Gene Hall's final concert as director of what was then the Laboratory Dance Band A at North Texas State College (now the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas). The date was April 27, 1959, and the admission ...
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