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Various Artists: Jazz Memories
by Charlie B. Dahan
Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver once said the most valuable weapon in baseball is the three-run home run; a more perfect analogy couldn’t exist between Weavers' baseball intellect and Universal Music’s recent boxset offering Jazz Memories. The three runs figuratively crossing the plate are the packages’ astute track choices, the groundbreaking photography of the legendary ...
Various Artists: Klezmer Concertos and Encores
by C. Michael Bailey
Klezmer Concertos and Encores makes the perfect companion piece to Naxos World’s recent release Klezmer—Café Jew Zoo . Two visions of Jewish music are presented on these divergent recordings. The former is part of a larger project undertaken by Naxos to release American Jewish Classical Music from the Milken Archive . These pieces ...
Various Artists: Stone Jazz
by AAJ Staff
“A-one and a-two: Can’t get me no...duh, duh, duh...Satisfaction, baby.” When you really think about it, Mulgrew Miller sort of looks like Keith Richards. Take out the Grecian Formula and Lenny White might be Charlie Watts. Charles Fambrough may be from Philadelphia, but with a little work, I see Bill Wyman. Stone Jazz proves ...
Various Artists: Birth of Be Bop
by Norman Weinstein
The Savoy catalog has been sliced and diced in so many combinations over the years that yet another Savoy compilation might invite moans. Yet there is good news in this one disc bop overview. The remastering is the best ever, meaning that Tommy Potter's bass on Charlie Parker's live at the Royal Roost version of “Be ...
Various Artists: Trombones on Parade
by Norman Weinstein
Trombones on Parade offers 23 classic performances spanning the years from 1927 to 1950, and every selection is a worthy addition to this cleanly remastered, budget-priced collection. Odd how American jazz labels so like to collect tunes unified by musician, style, or era – or even listener mood ("Jazz for a Sad Afternoon") – but U.K. ...
Various Artists: The Big Horn: The History of Honkin' & Screamin' Saxophone
by Norman Weinstein
The saxophone style heralded by this handsomely packaged, budget-priced four-disc box exists somewhere between jazz and R&B. Spawned most famously by Illinois Jacquet's “Flying Home," a hit for Lionel Hampton's 1942 big band, this sound emphasizes the raw, gutteral, dramatic, extreme high and low registers of the sax. Subtle it is not, and ...
Various Artists: 50 Years of Jazz and Blues: Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
As part of the label’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Chicago’s own Delmark Records has released two double-disc sets, highlighting the label’s jazz and blues lines respectively. Presently reviewed is the jazz set. This set is composed of 28 songs, five of which are not previously released on compact disc. These included Art Hodes’ interpretation of "Cake Walkin’ ...
Various Artists: Viva Cubop 3: The Essential Latin & Afro-Cuban Jazz Collection
by Chris M. Slawecki
This set layers thirteen tracks from the Cubop roster of Afro-Cuban masters past and present into a thick forest of steamy, sweltering percussion funk. Timbalero Bobby Matos was the first artist the label signed and is represented by “Kimbisa” from his album Footprints. Matos also produced “Back to the Roots,” a reminder that the ...
Various Artists: Exile on Blues Street
by C. Michael Bailey
With Exile on Blues Street, Randy Labbe and Telarc Blues did not merely hit a home run, but a grand slam to win the World Series by one in the bottom of the ninth. Where The Blues White Album was a troublesome fit and The Blues on Blonde on Blonde was a near fit, Exile fits ...
Various Artists: Vanthology: A Tribute to Van Morrison
by Chris M. Slawecki
The mercurial Morrison has consistently honored classic blues, soul, and R&B music in the material favored by The Them, which he co-founded, as well as his own inimitable compositions as a solo artist. Here Morrison is on the receiving end of the tributes from soul and blues legends performing his compositions. Guitarist/vocalist Little ...
