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Various: Once in a Blue Moon -The Love Songs Of Ellen Vanderslice
by Dave Nathan
Ellen Vanderslice is one of those lucky people who seems to have managed to find enough space in her life to engage in two activities she really likes. By day, Vanderslice is an architect and urban designer in Portland, Oregon and an internationally known, outspoken pedestrian rights activist. By night, she writes songs and performs as ...
Various: Mississippi Blues
by Derek Taylor
The Mississippi Delta is commonly revered as the American birthplace of the Blues, both figuratively and factually. The porous soil of the regions vast cotton fields and the hot humidity of the Mississippi sky were catalytic ingredients that sparked an alchemical reaction between the poverty and repression felt by Southern Blacks and their more ancient musical ...
Various: Classic Slide Guitar Blues, Volumes 1 & 2
by Derek Taylor
Every music lover has defining moments in his or her listening history; turning points were exposure to an artist or song completely unhinges their way of thinking and opens their ears to a whole different level of experience. For me one of these epiphanic moments came when I first heard Blind Willie Johnson’s “I Know His ...
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: The Haunted House
by Dave Nathan
This album was issued just in time for Halloween with a 20 tune play list of songs about skeletons, ghosties and ghoulies and other “things that go bump in the night". Obviously designed to create the proper atmosphere for that one time during the year - - Halloween - - when households are threatened with all ...
Various: David X. Young's Jazz Loft
by AAJ Staff
Fortunately, David X. Young has been able to see the documentation and appreciation of his significant contributions to jazz, even though W. Eugene Smith wasn't as lucky. After “Double Take" magazine printed a ground-breaking article about Young's jazz loft, CNN, “Time" and “CBS Sunday Morning" were quick on the uptake to interview Young and to recall ...
Various: And This Is Maxwell Street
by Derek Taylor
Somewhere along the road running from its gnarled roots in the Delta to its current modern incarnations the Blues lost a lot of it’s bite. And in an age where wet-behind-the-ears pubescents like Shannon Curfman and Johnny Lang monopolize the Blues charts this set is a Bantam rooster’s wake up call crowing out a universal message ...
Various: David X. Young's Jazz Loft
by AAJ Staff
Fortunately, David X. Young has been able to see the documentation and appreciation of his significant contributions to jazz, even though W. Eugene Smith wasn't as lucky. After “Double Take" magazine printed a ground-breaking article about Young's jazz loft, CNN, “Time" and “CBS Sunday Morning" were quick on the uptake to interview Young and to recall ...
Various: Heavy Flute: Funky Flute Grooves From The 60s And 70s
by AAJ Staff
Label M founder Joel Dorn is the same Joel Dorn who produced many of the great Atlantic jazz albums. Now that Dorn has access to that legendary Atlantic catalog, he's taking advantage of some of the classic flute tracks of that era to make a statement about that instrument's coming of age in the 1960's.
Various: Rollin' Into Memphis - Songs of John Hiatt
by Ed Kopp
Before a recent show by John Hiatt and the Guilty Dogs, I was pleased to hear songs from Howlin' Wolf's Moanin' in the Moonlight play over the speakers while Hiatt's stagehands scurried. It figures John Hiatt would be a Howlin' Wolf fan. It also figures contemporary blues and folk artists dig Hiatt, who has dabbled in ...
