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Various Artists: Arbors Records Sampler, Volume One
by AAJ Staff
The ‘Thirties were an interesting time for jazz. The years between Dixieland and Swing brought a lot of new players on the scene, brought new instruments to the fold (guitar, tenor sax), and did wonders with the pop tunes of the Golden Age of American Song. The ‘Nineties are an interesting time for jazz. A record ...
Various Artists: Brazilian Horizons, Volume 2
by AAJ Staff
This continues a series from last year, showing the lasting influence of samba/bossa nova on jazz musicians, and their effect, in turn, on Brazil. While Volume One was mostly in the ‘Seventies, this one digs deep, going nearly a quarter-century to show how long the two musics have been married – and how deep the love ...
Looking Back: West Coast Classics
by Gaylord Smith
This second batch of six Pacific Jazz CD reissues in the “West Coast Classics" series is sort of a tale of two cities--or, more precisely, a tale of two communities within a city (Los Angeles), one white, one black and often worlds apart. Producer Richard Bock's label began largely as a white, cool-school label ...
Various Artists: The West Coast Jazz Box
by AAJ Staff
At first it was hard to get noticed. Articles on the Dave Brubeck Octet were sent to jazz journals in 1948, but none were printed; it took the words of a New York critic to attract attention. In 1951 a bunch of Stan Kenton musicians decided to stake out on their own, while living in L.A. ...
Various Artists: Town Hall Concert
by Ian Nicolson
Does the world need another recorded version of Cataloupe Island? Slip this reissue of the 1985 Blue Note relaunch into your player and, with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and the inimitable Tony Williams kicking as the rhythm section, the occasion is one of such joyful reunion the answer is plain.Founded by the evening's guest ...
Various Artists: Blue Bossa - Cool Cuts From The Tropics vol 2
by Ian Nicolson
Baby, it's warm inside... and even if every artist featured on this latest revealing compilation drawn from Blue Note's influential Fifties and Sixties catalogues is a Norteno from several frontiers up toward the cold, there's a wealth of fine beach blanket bossa here. And because the Blue Note roster could boast the finest - and sharpest ...
Songs That Made The Phone Light Up
Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Over The Rainbow - Austin Cromer with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band; Forty Acres and a Mule - Oscar Brown Jr.; Save Your Love For Me - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderly; It Might As Well Be Spring - King Pleasure; Look To The Rainbow - Dinah Washington; A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry - Joe Williams; World Of Trouble - Lou Rawls; Imagination - Jess Belvin; Through A Long and Sleepless Night - Etta Jones; Gimmie That Wine - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross; River Stay Away From My Door - Jimmy Rushing with the Dave Brubeck Quartet; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Sqaure - Brook Benton; Baltimore Oriole - Lorez Alexandria.
Brazilian Horizons
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1998
Track listing: Song Of The Jet - Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass; Canto de Ossanha - Raul De Souza; Vera Crus - Jim Hall & Airto; Chovendo na Roseira - Dom Um Romao; Bahia - Flora Purim; Corcovado - Joe Pass & Paulinho Da Costa; Travessia - Sarah Vaughan & Milton Nascimento; Rio Acima - Luiz Bonfa; Love Dance - Mark Murphy; Nascente - Cannonball Adderely; Amazonas - Cal Tjader & Egberto Gismonti; Triste - Sarah Vaughan & Antonio Carlos Jobim; Dreams Are Real - Jose Roberto Bertrami; Feel Good - Claudio Roditi; All That Carnival - Azymuth. (70:28)
