Results for "Verve Music Group"

Article: Album Review

Brian Blade: Mama Rosa

by John Kelman
April 21, 2009

After a lengthy gap between records with his Fellowship Band, drummer Brian Blade has stepped up the pace, following up the unmistakable sound of Season of Changes (Verve, 2008) with Mama Rosa. Blade temporarily deserts the folkloric jazz context of his longstanding group, instead delivering a singer/songwriter album that's just as compelling. Different in nature it ...

Article: Album Review

Diana Krall: Quiet Nights

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2009

The origin of the phrase Bossa Nova is as complex as the Brazilian culture from which the music sprung in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nominally translated into “Our New Thing," Bossa Nova was developed by Brazilian composers Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto, and is characterized by a samba rhythm with ...

Article: Interview

Melody Gardot: Perspective

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
April 20, 2009

Sometimes life just has the overwhelming ability to throw some rough tests your way, and a person can find oneself dealing in silence with the aching certainty of an unfinished journey, where life seems to have ended with you and with all the marvelous possibilities that used to lie before your feet. This is as far ...

Article: Album Review

Stan Getz: Dynasty

by Chris May
April 4, 2009

Verve's Originals series, which in late 2008 brought us tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's wonderful box set The Bossa Nova Albums (Verve, 2008), follows through with a remastered reissue of Dynasty, a double album recorded in 1971, a decade or so after Getz gave jazz its final, sustained hurrah in the pop charts with bossa nova. Relatively ...

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Bobo Motion

By Willie Bobo

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Up, Up And Away; 02. Ain't That Right; 03. Midnight Sun; 04. Cute; 05. I Don't Know; 06. Tuxedo Junction; 07. Evil Ways; 08. Show Me; 09. Black Coffee; 10. Night Walk; 11. La Bamba

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Remixed4

By Various Artists

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Cry Me a River (Truth & Soul Remix); Gimme Some (Mike Mangini Remix); There Was a Time (Kenny Dope Remix); California Soul (Diplo / Mad Decent Remix); Take Care of Business (Pilooski Edit); Bim Bom (Psapp Remix); Tenderly (Mocky Remix); Tea for Two (Chris Shaw Remix); Dilo Como Yo (Antibalas Remix); Evil Ways (Karriem Riggins Remix); Everybody Loves the Sunshine (9th Wonder Remix); I Get a Kick Out of You (Cinematic Orchestra Remix).

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Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums

By Stan Getz

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Jazz Samba: Desafinado; Samba Dees Days; O Pato; Samba Triste; Samba De Uma Nota So; E Luxo So; Baia.

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Big Band Bossa Nova: Manha De Carnival; Balanco No Samba; Melancolico; Entre Amigos; Chega De Saudade; Noite Triste; Samba De Uma Nota So; Bim Bom.

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Jazz Samba Encore!: Sambalero; So Danco Samba; Insensatez; O Morro Nao Tem Vez; Samba De Duas Notas; Menina Flor; Mania De Maria; Saudade Vem Correndo; Um Abraco No Getz; Ebony Samba.

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Getz/Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema; Doralice; P'ra Machucar Meu Coracao; Desafinado; Corcovado; So Danco Samba; O Grande Amor; Vivo Sohando.

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Getz/Almeida: Minina Moca; Once Again; Winter Moon; Do What You Do Do; Samba Da Sahra; Maracatu-Too.

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Negative Space

By Dave Liebman

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Introducing the Band; G.IG.; Negative Space; Get Me Back to the Apple; Poinciana; Afro Blue.

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Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge All-Stars at Newport

By Roy Eldridge

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me; Day by Day; Embraceable You; Moonglow; Sweet Georgia Brown.

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Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band: Season Of Changes

By Brian Blade

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: