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Various: To Grover, With Love
by AAJ Staff
Grover Washington, Jr. was one of those jazz musicians, like George Benson or Herbie Mann, whose clarity of conception and uniqueness of sound crossed over into the realm of pop music for wider acclaim and, of course, for greater financial reward than life as a jazz musician would have provided. Beyond Washington’s wide appeal, he still ...
Various: Texas Blues
by Derek Taylor
Commonly regaled as a definitively American musical form, the blues are in fact a living amalgam of social, cultural and artistic antecedents both indigenous and otherwise. African-derived rhythms and folklore intersected with traditions extrapolated from European, Latin and Polynesian sources--with everything falling into the simmering melting pot that describes the music. Distinct styles were the product ...
Various: Hellhound on My Trail: Songs of Robert Johnson
by C. Michael Bailey
This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. I have mixed feelings about a tribute disc to a phantom. Robert Johnson's craft is as essential to world culture as Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, the Koran, and Citizen Kane. In my experience, tribute discs contain one or two performances that are over the top ...
Various: Concord's Women in Jazz - The New Century
by Dave Nathan
This album is revealing. Of the 10 women jazz artists who have recorded for Concord Jazz, 8 ½ are vocalists. The full non-vocalist is Marian McPartland who plays piano, the other area of major employment for women in jazz. The ½ is Sheila E. who plays drums while she sings. The label has previously recorded women ...
Various: Back In My Disc Jockey Days
by AAJ Staff
Allow a person to reminisce. No, not me. Rather, the person doing the reminiscing, in this case, is Joel Dorn, the reticent and inscrutable producer of Label M.I'm kidding. Joel Dorn isn't reticent, or else he couldn't have put together such legendary recordings throughout a career spanning four decades. And he isn't inscrutable. Anyone ...
Various: Jazz Live From New York
by Dave Nathan
What a bargain this 2-cd set is! More than two hours of music performed by Telarc's outstanding stable of jazz recording artists, all for the price of a single album. And the record company's stable reads like an honor roll of contemporary jazz performers, Dave Brubeck, Mel Tormé, Sweets Edison and Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, James ...
Various: Calle 54
by James Nichols
Every once in a while an “exotic" world album garners national attention and sparks the imagination of American pop music fans. Some past examples include Getz/Gilberto, Irakere, the Chieftains, Bob Marley, and most recently Buena Vista Social Club. The CD reviewed below accompanies the documentary touted as the first full-length film dedicated to Latin jazz, Calle ...
Various: Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today?
by AAJ Staff
It's too bad that Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today? wasn't made on vinyl. Then it could be featured in John Corbett's “Vinyl Freak" column in Down Beat, wherein he rediscovers quirky platters with offbeat, outrageous or abstruse cover art.Label M realizes the value of that long-lost art form--the album cover--and has gone ...
Various: Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today?
by Derek Taylor
At the height of the soul jazz movement heavy hitter independent labels like Prestige and Blue Note were scrambling to cash in on the craze. Turned out in cookie cutter batches organ combo records only the relative skills and tastes of the musicians to differentiate them. The inevitable critical backlash that ensued swindled Soul Jazz out ...
Various: Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today?
by AAJ Staff
It's too bad that Have You Had Your Vitamin B-3 Today? wasn't made on vinyl. Then it could be featured in John Corbett's “Vinyl Freak" column in Down Beat, wherein he rediscovers quirky platters with offbeat, outrageous or abstruse cover art.Label M realizes the value of that long-lost art form--the album cover--and has gone ...
