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Mixtaper.com
by Mark Sabbatini
Sometimes it's a great thing getting a reminder of one's ignorance. Stumbling upon these user-created collections of free music downloads, usually compiled from different sites and grouped into virtual “albums," exposes an entirely new genre of site foreign to me despite years of scouring the Net for files. Maybe it's just associating the “mix" ...
Various Artists: Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake
by Jon Opstad
The popularity and appreciation of Nick Drake's music seems to have grown in recent years. Not long ago a tribute programme was broadcast on British radio presented by none other than Brad Pitt, just one indication of the increased exposure Drake's music has received lately. The refreshing thing about Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake is ...
Various Artists: Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake
by J. Robert Bragonier
On various lists and forums across the jazz landscape, a lot of virtual ink is devoted to debating the future of jazz: fussing over the predominance of gray heads at jazz festivals, concerts, and venues, and pondering the issue of attendance after these seniors, in the words of Shakespeare, “shuffle off this mortal coil"; lamenting the ...
Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans
by Charlie B. Dahan
Various Artists Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans Shout!Factory 2004 Shout Factory's four-CD box set Doctors, Professors, King and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans represents a perfect storm when it comes to reissues. This box set is musically exciting, a complete ...
Various Artists: Justin Time For Christmas Four
by Mark Sabbatini
The problem with too many multi-artist compilation albums is they tend to feel like catalogues--which, ironically enough, is not endearing in a Christmas album. Justin Time For Christmas 4 suffers from this sin, so to speak, then complicates it in a further bit of irony: the handful of artists who turn in performances worthy of further ...
Various Artists: Modern Drummer Presents Drum Nation Volume One
by John Kelman
When the people at Modern Drummer magazine conceived the idea of an album highlighting some of the most innovative drummers on the scene today, they probably didn't realize they would also be making a statement applicable to all instruments: that there are some people who are players of their instruments, and then there are musicians --artists ...
Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years
by Ken Franckling
Various Artists Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years Columbia Legacy 2004 Other than going one more time, what better way to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of America's oldest continuing and best known jazz festival than by listening to 27 of its finest and most unusual moments? Festival ...
Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake
by Eyal Hareuveni
Various Artists Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake Songlines Recordings 2004 Singer/songwriter Nick Drake passed away 30 years ago, but his time-defying songs have gained their iconic stand only after his early death at only 26 years old. Though he released only three albums during his lifetime (1969's ...
Various Artists: A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion Guitar
by John Kelman
Homage records can be tricky business. How to be reverent to the subject without being so imitative as to be completely superfluous? On that level, the sheer irreverence of A Guitar Supreme means that it doesn't have to worry about direct comparison to its source, the music of saxophone legend John Coltrane. But a proper tribute ...
Various Artists: Yes Indeed! Women Vocalists on United
by Andrew Rowan
This curio is more a snapshot of the jazz-influenced and -inflected popular singing of the time than a reflection of state-of-the-art jazz singing. Too many undistinguished arrangements and corny horn effects push these sides too far to the blatantly commercial side of the ledger. Most recognized among these singers today, of course, is Della ...
