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Mali and the Sahara: Compilations
by AAJ Staff
West Africa is experiencing a musical golden age. The unbelievable diversity of the region's music, often rooted in centuries-old tradition--but just as often attuned to modern production and popular accessibility--has been piling up on record and in performance at a prodigious pace. So if you don't get a chance to visit Dakar, Bamako, or Lagos in ...
Various Artists: New School University Jazz Program 2004/2005
by AAJ Staff
The top-notch jazz program of New School University continues to play a significant role in consistently sending off mature sounding players to infiltrate the New York and global jazz scenes. With a faculty that boasts an impressive jazz veteran roster (trumpeters Charles Tolliver and Jimmy Owens; saxophonists Billy Harper and George Garzone; trombonist Benny Powell; pianists ...
Various Artists: Acoustic Brazil
by Woodrow Wilkins
Brazilians loathe to entertain the mere suggestion that their native music is jazz. However, the rhythms and melodies of traditional Brazilian music and some styles of North American jazz are so similar that a song from one genre can easily blend into the soundscape of the other--often without translation of lyrics or major changes in the ...
Various Artists: Rump Comp Volume One
by Chris May
As a means to an end--the end being the creation of new sonorities and new approaches to composition and performance--electronica is an interesting technological development. Wibutee's Playmachine and Polar Bear's Held On The Tips Of Fingers, to take two very different recent examples, are rich and convincing evidence of its relevance to contemporary jazz. As an ...
Various Artists: Hot Club de France
by David Rickert
The Hot Club de France was a group of avid European jazz fans who swapped records, organized concerts, and sponsored radio broadcasts overseas. Their enthusiasm for jazz carried well into the sixties and seventies, when most people had moved onto other jazz styles and, later, rock 'n' roll. The organization thus served as a haven for ...
Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo
by Chris May
Subtitled “Latin dance with New York attitude," this wonderful, wonderful album presents eighteen choice cuts from the boogaloo craze which ruled New York's barrios in the late '60s. They will make you feel good, feel strong, make your whole body want to dance and give you heart for tomorrow, just like they did for the kids ...
Various Artists: Mysterious Voyages - A Tribute to Weather Report
by John Kelman
Weather Report's fifteen-year tenure was not only the longest of the fusion groups that emerged from the post-Bitches Brew era--including John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea's Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters--it was arguably the most broadly influential. Starting out as an electric free jazz collective but ultimately honing a sound that included world beat ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2004 - Small Groups
by John Eyles
Emanem is without equal as a purveyor of improvised music, with a catalogue now numbering over 130 albums. The label's annual Freedom of the City releases (this is the fourth annual “Small Groups double CD release) serve several functions. They provide an excellent record--aural and photographic--of the festival itself, whether or not one attended; they are ...
Various Artists: One More: Music of Thad Jones
by Craig Jolley
An outstanding crop of big band leaders/composers emerged during the 1960s, including Clare Fischer, Thad Jones, Gary McFarland, Ladd McIntosh, Oliver Nelson, and other notables. Jones eventually established his preeminence, in part because he was able to keep a band together and get his music heard. Beyond that, his compositions are brilliant and drenched in the ...
Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration
by AAJ Staff
Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration Directed by Braden King DVD (300+ minutes) Thrill Jockey 2005 In the flood of music that hits the market every day, we often get caught up in product and lose sight of its meaning. The fact that we ...
