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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 ...
Various Artists: 50 Years of Jazz and Blues: Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 2 As part of the label’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, Chicago’s own Delmark has released two double-disc sets highlighting the label’s jazz and blues lines respectively. Presently reviewed is the blues set and rollicking is the key word. The story begins with the discovery and recording of the Monroe, Louisiana cum St. ...
Various Artists: Drop the Debt
by AAJ Staff
Ostensibly aimed at improving the infrastructure and efficiency of third world economies, international moneylenders directed poor countries toward debt in the '70s. The optimism and theoretical benefit of these money transfers ended up far outweighed by their costs in terms of misdirection, disorganization, and corruption (witness the price personally extracted by Suharto in Indonesia). ...
Various Artists: Festival in the Desert
by AAJ Staff
The Sahara is not generally known as much more than a massive stretch of hot, dry sand where camels are a primary form of transportation and water is your best friend. However, this year's Festival in the Desert brought a fertile collection of musicians to Essakane, an oasis 65 kilometers northwest of Timbuktu in Mali.
Various Artists: West Side Chicago Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 3 The earliest song in this collection is Magic Sam’s "I Need You So Bad," recorded July 12, 1967, and the most recent is Little Arthur Duncan’s "Singin’ With The Sun," recorded February 16, 1999. Aside from small sonic improvements in the past 30 years, the sound and quality of the ...
Various Artists: Straight from the 6th Ward
by Charlie B. Dahan
You don’t have to wait until Mardi Gras to have a party. Nope, don’t need to cook up some gumbo or boil some crawfish to let it rip. Don’t sweat getting some hurricane drink mix to have a party. You don’t need any of these things to throw a party New Orleans style. Just pop Straight ...
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