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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 ...
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. ...
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