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The New Bossa Nova
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Down to You; Never Die Young; Here It Is; When We Dance; Satellite; Were You Blind That Day; Love is for Strangers; You and the Girl; Living Without You; I Can
Luciana Souza: The New Bossa Nova
by AAJ Italy Staff
Luciana Souza è una cantante brasiliana con una voce molto raffinata che sa muovere in maniera convincente fra bossa nova, jazz e pop contemporaneo. Questo album dal titolo un po’ banale (probabilmente ammiccante a The New Standards di Herbie Hancock) la vede affiancata da un cast stellare di jazzisti, per un repertorio di derivazione pop che ...
David Liebman / Roberto Tarenzi / Paolo Benedettini / Tony Arco: Dream of Nite
by John Kelman
All too often, an artist's recordings don't come anywhere close to representing his/her full scope. American artists often tour Europe with groups worthy of being heard but rarely documented--and if they are, it's on obscure labels almost never seeing the light of day Stateside. Saxophonist Dave Liebman has occasionally worked with this fine trio of Italian ...
Mark Murphy: Love is What Stays
by Joel Roberts
The cover of Mark Murphy's Love is What Stays features a tight close-up of the 75-year-old singer staring unflinchingly into the camera, the ravages of age clear on his face. It's a fitting counterpart to the music inside, which fearlessly confronts the passage of time from the vantage point of one considering his own mortality.
Herbie Hancock: River: The Joni Letters
by John Kelman
While it might be easy, on the surface, to view pianist Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters as a continuation of Possibilities (Hear, 2005), nothing could be further from the truth. Possibilities was an unapologetically pop record; River is unequivocally jazz--although such broad classifications shouldn't matter. River is, quite simply, a superb disc that takes Joni ...
Luciana Souza: The New Bossa Nova
by John Kelman
When pianist Herbie Hancock released The New Standard (Verve, 1996)--an album of radically reworked pop tunes by artists ranging from Peter Gabriel to Prince--it wasn't exactly revolutionary, but it was the first time a major jazz artist had devoted an entire album to contemporary popular song. Singer Luciana Souza may not be as significant an artist--yet--as ...
Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Sings Abbey
by Suzanne Lorge
At almost 77 years of age Abbey Lincoln has been composing, writing and/or performing for almost sixty years, and Abbey Sings Abbey is a stunning collection of some of the singer's most memorable works. Lincoln is a writer of some depth and the eleven original tunes on this CD offer strong testament to her ...
Charlie Parker: Bird & Diz
by Samuel Chell
A 1950 recording released on a 10" LP in 1952, this session was conceived by Norman Granz as an opportunity to win for Charlie Parker a larger audience by showcasing him in the company of jazz stars playing “pretty tunes written by good songwriters. But with the exception of “Melancholy Baby" these are exactly the same ...
