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Various Artists: Justin Time For Christmas Four
by Jim Santella
As the year-end holiday season brings pleasant surprises, Justin Time's annual gift package delights the jazz collector as well as the jazz novice. It's all provided in the holiday spirit. The surprises on this fourth endowment include veteran renderings alongside several unique surprises. Hank Jones offers a warm solo piano arrangement of “The Christmas ...
Various Artists: It's De Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection
by David Rickert
One of the criticisms of the movie De Lovely was that Cole Porter's music was sung by pop stars who weren't quite up to the task of interpreting his tunes. Bluebird has wisely issued an alternative to the soundtrack with It's De Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection, a compilation which features renditions of Porter tunes ...
Various Artists: Jazz For Couch Potatoes!
by Mark Sabbatini
Talk about benefiting from low expectations. Maybe it's the thought of commercial smooth jazz emissary Chuck Loeb tackling the theme from “Gilligan's Island." Or a talent like saxophonist Eric Alexander stooping into “I Dream Of Genie." Or that Jazz For Couch Potatoes! even exists as a tribute to maybe our nation's most pathetic legal ...
Various Artists: The Colors Of Latin Jazz: Latin Jam!
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by Mark Sabbatini
I can just hear the musicians: “An uninformed review? Oh, that's different." Yeah, but this one's deliberate. Sampler discs are rarely the best way to get acquainted with performers since they tend to feature radio-length songs aimed at the masses. But they're everywhere, usually at bargain prices in an effort to lure ...
Various Artists: Music From The Motion Picture De-Lovely
by Jim Santella
Featuring contemporary singers, De-Lovely honors the music that Cole Porter handed down to us many years ago. These are the songs that remain in your ear for days and months. Don't think that you'll come away from the movie theater with a clear head and steel emotions. Your head will be hearing the music from this ...
Drummers Collective: 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002
by John Kelman
The Drummers Collective, arguably the leading school for jazz drumming in the world, celebrated its 25th anniversary in '02, and thankfully Paul Siegel and Rob Wallis of Hudson Music were thereto record the event, featuring a wide range of drummers and styles. Mixing it in with the annual Bass Day celebration, the scope of the event ...
South Africa: Tales of Gospel and Urban S.A.
by AAJ Staff
The two reviews in this update are both compilations produced by South Africa's Sheer Sound label as part of its Sheer Africa series. The church and the city form the roots of Tales of Gospel S.A. and Tales of Urban S.A., respectively, and vocals predominate. For the corresponding jazz compilation, click here. ...
Various Artists: Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Volume 2
by Michael P. Gladstone
The second volume of this 50th Anniversary compilation presents several jam session-type tracks in the '50s, '60s and '70s, and in the second half female jazz vocalists in small combo settings. This disc acts as a bridge between the trad jazz and post-war swing artists as well as the big bands of Basie and Ellington, as ...
Various Artists: Newport Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Volume 3
by Michael P. Gladstone
Without mincing words, the final compilation of this three disc series makes the best case for the bop generation and beyond between 1955-'63, closing with a coda from V.S.O.P. The Quintet in 1976. There is little reference to the postwar Swing Era most notably on Volume 1. Volume 3 begins with a previously unreleased ...
South Africa: Tales of Afrojazz S.A.
by AAJ Staff
Various Artists Tales of Afrojazz S.A. Sheer Sound 2004 Last year South Africa's dominant jazz label, Sheer Sound, came up with a new imprint known as Sheer Africa, dedicated to documenting musical instruments and styles from all over the continent. Three of Sheer Africa's seven Tales of releases ...
