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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: The Jazz Scene: San Francisco
by Derek Taylor
San Francisco was a cultural furnace in the 1950s- a hotbed of artistic innovation and exploration. From the winding stream of consciousness treatises of the Beats to the creative explorations of the Bay Area jazz cadre and the frequent overlap between the two things were in a word ‘jumping.’ This recent Fantasy reissue captures some of ...
Various: Calle 54
by AAJ Staff
In an odd twist, Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba chose to base the conception of his new movie, Calle 54, with the music. In this case, he investigates Latin jazz. That’s the way music should be presented cinematically . After the germination of his musical thesis, Trueba dramatizes it visually somewhat akin to Disney’s ground-breaking, albeit ...
Various: Jazz: Live From New York
by AAJ Staff
Improvisationally fed, jazz more often than not connects with the listener more effectively in live performances than in the studio. Even with the acoustical limitations of live recordings, not to mention such “annoyances" as crowd talk and the clinking of drink glasses, the to-the-heart communicative nature is instantly perceived.Such is the strength of Jazz: ...
Various: Hot Jazz on Blue Note
by Mike Neely
Hot Jazz on Blue Note is a superb box set from the liner notes and photos to the choice of performances and the quality of the sound re-mastering. Jazz from the 1940’s is the focus, and New Orleans revival is mostly the style. A subtle touch of swing music is also in the mix throughout this ...
Various: BluePort Jazz Sampler
by Dave Nathan
This release hawks the virtues of the Blue Port label's first eight releases by whetting the appetite with samples from each of the albums. Featuring a stable of fine jazz musicians, mostly from the West Coast, all of whom offer absorbing and fresh renditions of mostly standard material, this CD allows the jazz fan to become ...
Various: Quintessential
by Dave Nathan
This album salutes the talents of five singers from the San Francisco Bay area. They offer a varied of standards and originals, with the former in the majority. While all the tracks are well done and each is endowed with qualities unique to the performer, there are some that are worthwhile pinpointing. Shanna Carlson's interpretation of ...
Various: The Prestige Legacy Vol. 1: The High Priests
by Derek Taylor
This appropriately titled disc, the first in what will presumably be a continuing series of retrospective compilations, gathers seminal work by the four bop Brahmins of the Prestige label- Rollins, Davis, Coltrane and Monk. Each one of sixteen tracks is a cornerstone classic in jazz history, but curiously the uniformly stellar nature of the material points ...
Various: The Best Of Ken Burns Jazz
by AAJ Staff
With the PBS series unseen, but with the one-CD compilation heard, it's fair to say that Ken Burns is ambitious, that's for sure. Few critics will assert that Burns doesn't have his heart in the right place.Nevertheless, Ken Burns Jazz in all of its permutations--from coffee table book to multi-part video package to 5-CD ...
Various: Christmas Jazz! -Volume 2
by Dave Nathan
Christmas music can be divided into three categories. The first pop tunes which happen to have the holidays as their theme. Then there is traditional Christmas music, songs whose only appearance comes during the holiday season. Finally, there's the Christmas music with religious or spiritual connotations. Nagel-Heyer's second CD of Christmas music deals mostly with the ...
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