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Various Artists: The Real Bahamas in Music and Song
by AAJ Staff
Here's the (hi)story in a nutshell. The Bahamas, a British colony, outlawed slavery in 1838, which meant that any lucky American slaves who could get there would be free, and the predictable outcome transpired. The music they brought contained the very roots of the blues, the connection between spirituals and folk music. And so generations around ...
Various Artists: Savoy On Central Avenue
by Jim Santella
“Blip Blip” goes the swing music that strolled through the streets of Los Angeles during the Swing Era. This 2-CD compilation features poignant glimpses of what was happening on Central Avenue from 1941 to 1952. It was right after the end of World War II that L.A. experienced its big building boom and a revitalization of ...
Various Artists: Bop Lives!
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 6 Delmark continues to celebrate its Golden Anniversary with a release of bebop classics from 1944 through 1998. This collection offers a curious cross-section from early Sir Charles Thompson ("Street Beat," 1945) to late Bud Powell ("Rifftide," 1962). The music captured here is stranger, more organic, and often more authentic than ...
Various Artists: Document Chicago - New Jazz and Improvisation
by John Kelman
Chicago has always had a sound that differentiated it from other large centres including New York and Los Angeles; decidedly urban, but with a certain avant edge that New York has only fully explored in recent years. Chicago has been mining the depths of the avant-garde since the ‘60s, when the Association for the Advancement of ...
Various Artists: Masters of Boogie Piano
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 5 The subtext is simple—a perfectly balanced left hand augmented by a bouncing, out-of-control right hand crossed with the 12-bar blues turned from 33&1/3 to 78. All of this equals boogie woogie piano. Speckled Red barely contains himself on “Wilkins Street Stomp," while Meade Lux Lewis strides his way through a ...
Various Artists: Bird Up!
by C. Michael Bailey
Yes, Kate, you are a very good woman... then again, you may be the Antichrist. —Doc Holliday to One-Eyed Kate in Tombstone (1993) Depending on one’s perspective, Bird Up! Is the greatest thing since sliced bread or the worst thing since Heaven’s Gate. The premise is provocative. The urban music called jazz has been ...
Various Artists: Latin Jazz Christmas
by Jim Santella
“From the bottom of my heart,” sings Pete Escovedo in a lovely arrangement of “Feliz Navidad” as he and his family wish us a Merry Christmas. Other tracks send similar wishes our way from Poncho Sanchez and his hardy crew, Caribbean Jazz Project, Sheila E., and several ensembles led by Ed Calle. There are surprises on ...
Various Artists: Blues From Up The Country
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 4 Blues From up the Country showcases the transitional music between the true Country Blues of Robert Johnson and Son House and the Urban Blues of middle-period Muddy Waters and Walter Jacobs. This mostly acoustic or crudely electrified music, raw and undone, comes from Delmark’s archives, recorded between the 1949 and ...
Various Artists: Jazz After Dark
by C. Michael Bailey
The popularity of compilation CDs such as Now That is What I Call Music and WOW might be owed to the duplex cultural effects of an aging population longing for Top 40 radio and the declining attention span of the youth. This confluence of influence has prompted record labels of all stripes to mine their respective ...
Various Artists: Masters of the Boogie Piano
by Norman Weinstein
CD compilations of boogie woogie piano abound, particularly on cheap import CD labels, but this domestic bargain is a strikingly attractive sampler. Drawing from Delmark's half-century old blues catalog, it nicely showcases the big names like Roosevelt Sykes and Albert Ammons and resurrects obscurities like the salty Curtis Jones and Speckled Red. Best of all, Sir ...
