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Various: Cincinnati Jazz Collection, Volume II
by Dave Nathan
Cincinnati, Ohio sitting in the Southwest corner of the state has pro football and baseball teams and is a weekend get away for students from Miami University of Ohio from nearby Oxford. It also abounds in jazz resources as this compilation, put together by the city's jazz J-Curve Records, confirms. Given the city's rather conservative bent, ...
Various: A Love Affair: The Music Of Ivan Lins
by AAJ Staff
Jason Miles--keyboardist, pianist and producer--is on a roll. Fresh from producing Celebrating The Music Of Weather Report for Telarc, Miles again celebrates music that inspired him. Again, the music that Miles celebrates crosses indefinable boundaries as it slips between genres While calling Weather Report's music “fusion" may reduce it to a more easily categorized status, calling ...
Various: Thank You, Joe!
by AAJ Staff
Arkadia has a good thing going for it: tribute albums. Interestingly, Thank You, Joe! is Arkadia's first CD of appreciation extended to a living jazz legend. Previous honorees have included John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Gerry Mulligan.Thank goodness that Arkadia had the insight to honor Henderson. Such a tribute raises the question, however, of ...
Various: Monkadelphia
by AAJ Staff
That scrappy, enterprising and creative jazz label out of Philadelphia, Encounter Records, has done it again by documenting some encounters of that city's musicians with the artist known as Monk.Rather than retreading often-heard arrangements of Monk's tunes, with only the players changing, the Philadelphians of “Monkadelphia" have created their own approach to Thelonious' challenging ...
Various: The Birth Of Hard Bop
by AAJ Staff
Strangely enough, The Birth Of Hard Bop contains in its liner notes a polemic against the genesis and continuation of that term. Even more strangely, it seems that reissue producer Orrin Keepnews read Doug Ramsey's reasoned but disputatious discussion of hard bop's meaning and participants, but he let the draft stand as is without editing. Keepnews ...
Various: Latin Jazz
by Derrick A. Smith
Music Club have created some sterling compilations of a wide range of artists from throughout the world. With this release the label attempts a summation of the genre of Latin Jazz, with mixed results. Fred Dollar's notes are appropriately spirited and sell the artists well, but the lack of anything but incidental listing of ensemble musicians ...
Various: Nu Yorica!, Nu Yorica 2!, Nu Yorica Roots!
by Steve Hanson
Latin American music has enjoyed more exposure than it has been used to recently. The Salsa craze (line dancing for snobs the cynics say) and Buena Vista Social Club, (you’ve seen the film, now buy the CD’s and read the book) have all raised its profile - which can only be a good thing. (We’ll leave ...
Various: The Rough Guide to South African Jazz
by Ed Kopp
To Americans, the sound of South African jazz is both oddly familiar and wonderfully exotic. The familiar aspect is easy to explain: From Louis Armstrong onward, American artists have exerted a strong influence over South Africa's pop and jazz musicians. Genres as diverse as doo-wop, R&B and bebop have all been incorporated in South African jazz. ...
Various: Adventures Of Superman/Original Television Sountrack
by AAJ Staff
In early 1951, National comics gave Lippert Pictures, a Hollywood B-movie production company, the green light to film a one hour television pilot episode of The Adventures of Superman. It was decided that this pilot would be released theatrically, in the event that television (at the time in it's infancy) didn't take off. Producers Robert Maxwell ...
Various: Live At Ortlieb's Jazzhaus
by AAJ Staff
Ortlieb’s is “the house of jazz as far as Philadelphia is concerned,” according to local legend Evelyn Simms in one of the ten “soundbytes” used throughout the two CD’s comprising “Live At Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus.” That’s quite an accomplishment when you consider that the club has been in existence for approximately a dozen years after owner Pete ...
