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Willie Bobo: Bobo Motion
by AAJ Italy Staff
Figlio di Spanish Harem, allievo di Mongo Santamaria e Tito Puente, Willie Bobo è stato tra i percussionisti più coinvolgenti della sua generazione, impegnato in decine di sedute di registrazione a fianco di musicisti quali Cal Tjader, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley o Wes Montgomery, oltre che come leader per la Verve in una serie di dischi ...
Herbie Hancock: Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock
by AAJ Italy Staff
Siamo abituati a veder uscire le famose “raccolte”, i “best dei best”, le antologie, e altro ancora. Di solito in più CD o in confezione extra lusso. Herbie Hancock questa volta va controtendenza e ci offre una selezione singola pubblicata dalla Verve, intitolata Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock che raccoglie in dodici tracce più ...
Various Artists: Remixed4
by Chris M. Slawecki
It's reasonable to wonder if this fourth installment in the series, in which contemporary hip-hop, trance and other electronic music producers remake/remodel classics from the Verve label group catalog, has finally returned one time too often to this same well. But em>Remixed4 keeps things interesting by venturing into tunes by other artists working outside the traditional ...
Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums
by Chris May
Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz created by an emergent generation of Brazilian songwriters led by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, bossa nova (meaning “new flair" or ...
David Liebman / Roberto Tarenzi / Paolo Benedettini / Tony Arco: Negative Space
by John Kelman
Sometimes there's simply too much good material for a single disc, and then a decision has to be made: release a double-disc set, or two single-discs, spread apart and each with its own complexion? In the case of saxophonist Dave Liebman's European group with Italians Roberto Tarenzi (piano), Paolo Bendettini (bass) and Tony Arco (drums), choosing ...
Roy Eldridge: Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge All-Stars at Newport
by Samuel Chell
After the triumphant, news-making appearance by the Duke Ellington Orchestra the preceding year, the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival was eagerly awaited by Verve impresario Norman Granz, no doubt hopeful of replicating the success of the best-selling album of Ellington's entire career (Ellington at Newport 1956 Complete, Columbia/Legacy). Although Verve's releases marking the 50th anniversary of the ...
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band: Season Of Changes
by John Kelman
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band Season Of Changes Verve Music Group 2008 It's been eight years since drummer Brian Blade released the outstanding Perceptual (Blue Note, 2000), his last release with his Fellowship band. While much has changed, from the first notes of Season Of Changes' opener, the potent, mid-tempo ...
Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58
by Samuel Chell
Although one could quarrel easily enough with the title, this meeting rises above the usual jam session produced by impresario Norman Granz for his Verve label because of the personnel. Gerry Mulligan, Sweets Edison, Oscar Peterson (practically the “house pianist" at Verve), Ray Brown--these are inimitable and personal instrumental voices in American music, and each speaks ...
The Puppini Sisters: The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo
by David Rickert
For those who have been longing for a revival of the Andrews Sisters style of singing (and surely Christina Aguilera's “Candyman" whetted a few appetites) the Puppini Sisters' second album, The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo, will be right up their alley. The Sisters, one from Italy and two from England and none related, employ ...
Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
by Samuel Chell
This extraordinary 1962 session was the realization of a promise made thirty years earlier between the maestro, Duke Ellington, and the father of the tenor saxophone, Coleman Hawkins, that they would some day make a record together. Released a mere two months ahead of the largely iconic Ellington-Coltrane meeting, the earlier date is distinguished by the ...
