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Various Artists: All Night Jazz
by Ian Nicolson
You can buy Linn Products hi-fi from Glasgow to Bombay to Tokyo, and a lot of people do. I wonder how many realise that the same company has a kid sister operation called Linn Records that believes in the same Grails: quality, precision and musicality. And one more at least - that Scottish talent is the ...
Various Artists: Brasil 2mil and Beleza Tropical 2
by Ian Nicolson
After one too many Sunday mornings lugging half the contents of Tesco around bits of south London dampened by profoundly unconvincing snowflakes, I reach for something tropical. So perhaps it's no coincidence that both Luaka Bop and the Austrian jazz-to-pop Ziriguiboom label fancy their chances with compilations of new Brasilian jazz at this time of year. ...
Various Artists: A New Generation - Twelve Urban Jazz Grooves
by Ian Nicolson
Apart from its central Soho location (just up the road from Ronnie Scott's) and its reputation for prestige and exciting food, Terence Conran's mega café Mezzo has also being bolting on some class jazz to its weekday line-ups for a while now. And although neither the club nor the regular clientele are as committed to the ...
Various Artists: Jazz @ Banff
by Jack Bowers
This recording, now more than four years old, was produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary (in 1994) of the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, with performances by a number of artists and groups associated with the Centre including the 1993–94 editions of the Banff Jazz Orchestra. Pianist Chucho Valdés (”Liza”) was recorded in ...
Various Artists: Big Band Favorites of Sammy Nestico
by Jack Bowers
Here are 11 charts by the incomparable Sammy Nestico, apparently recycled by Summit Jazz from at least three uncredited sources. If you have the Al Sanada All–Star Big Band’s recent release, Playing Sammy Nestico (from which the liner notes for this disc were transcribed almost word–for–word) or Nestico’s album Dark Orchid, which dates from 1981, you’re ...
Various Artists: Jazz For When You're Alone
by AAJ Staff
It began with JAZZ FOR A RAINY AFTERNOON, issued over a year ago. Beneath its beautiful cover was a splendid anthology, its gentle, slightly bitter tunes evoking rain and the emotions coming with it. It was a calculated attempt to sell “mood music”, maybe the first in jazz since the now-defunct Moodsville label. And it worked. ...
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. ...
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