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The Complete Jazz Casual Series
by Mark Sabbatini
The Complete Jazz Casual Series Various ArtistsEfor Films2004 If Ken Burns' 10-disc “Jazz" is a freshman lecture, this is a senior recital.All 28 episodes from America's first television jazz series are featured in the eight-DVD boxed set The Complete Jazz Casual Series, where a huge ...
Tribute to John Coltrane/Tribute to Bill Evans: Double Time Jazz Collection
by John Kelman
Various Artists Double Time Jazz Collection: Tribute to John Coltrane/Tribute to Bill Evans Eagle Eye Media 1987/1991; Reissued 2004 In its ongoing series of reissues under the Double Time Jazz Collection moniker, Eagle Eye Media has put together two tribute shows on one DVD that demonstrate how a ...
Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Mediterranean Caf
by AAJ Staff
The title of this compilation is something of an invention, but it's a good idea and deftly realized. To the extent that the vast area bounded by the shores of the Mediterranean can be adequately sampled on one disc, this collection does the trick: sixteen tracks totaling a generous 76 minutes bring together music from fourteen ...
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 ...
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