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Various Artists: Johnny

Read "Johnny" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

Johnny Cash has always championed the little guy who faces down the giants in his world with a mature sense of satisfaction. In his memorable musical stories, Cash tells about how corporate headquarters doesn’t know what’s going on right in their own backyards, about how the tax man and the toll taker don’t realize that the ...

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One Night With Blue Note

Read "One Night With Blue Note" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

One Night With Blue Note Blue Note 2003 This February 22, 1985 concert at Town Hall in New York featured a cast of jazz artists who’ve become legendary. Blue Note has inserted informative narrative documentary between numbers, so that the concert now comes to us up close and personal with ...

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Various Artists: Savoy Christmas Blues

Read "Savoy Christmas Blues" reviewed by Rex  Butters

by Rex Butters

Savoy’s Christmas anthology draws on recordings from the '40s and '50s, swinging wildly in mood from the sacred to the profane. The eclectic mix includes novelty tunes, straight readings of traditional songs, and four very different interpretations of “White Christmas,” ranging from the disposable Meltones version to a crucial live performance by Charlie Parker with Kenny ...

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Various Artists: Jazz Yule Love

Read "Jazz Yule Love" reviewed by Russell Moon

by Russell Moon

At the end of various August 2000 and January 2001 recording sessions, Mack Avenue Records president and producer Stix Hooper asked artists to record their favorite Christmas songs. The result is Jazz Yule Love , twelve tracks by some of jazz's greatest names. By far the most cheery is Terry Gibbs' “White Christmas," where Gibbs is ...

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Various Artists: The Reasons for Christmas Project

Read "The Reasons for Christmas Project" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland

by Celeste Sunderland

The Poconos... honeymooners flock there in spring to bathe in heart-shaped tubs, families arrive in summer for a swim through glistening lakes, hikers arrive in the fall to see the changing leaves, and in the winter... Well, there's the skiing, the skating, the cuddling by the fire... and there's the area's burgeoning music community, which convened ...

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Various Artists: The Real Bahamas in Music and Song

Read "The Real Bahamas in Music and Song" reviewed by AAJ Staff

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 ...

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Various Artists: Savoy On Central Avenue

Read "Savoy On Central Avenue" reviewed by Jim Santella

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 ...

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Various Artists: Bop Lives!

Read "Bop Lives!" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

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 ...

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Various Artists: Document Chicago - New Jazz and Improvisation

Read "Document Chicago - New Jazz and Improvisation" reviewed by John Kelman

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 ...

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Various Artists: Masters of Boogie Piano

Read "Masters of Boogie Piano" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

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 ...


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