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Roy Hargrove Presents the RH Factor: Hard Groove
by Chris M. Slawecki
Having previously immersed his trumpet in two 'new soul' collaborations in 2000—D'Angelo's Grammy Award-winning Voodoo album and subsequent tour, plus songstress Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun album—Roy Hargrove dives headfirst into the soul pool. RH Factor blends a core band of two saxophonists, three keyboard players, two bassists and drummers, and two guitarists (including legendary soul session ...
Jim Hall: Live!
by David Rickert
Jim Hall was a sideman on countless sessions with jazz notables--Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans to name but two--yet his work as a leader remains largely unreissued. This makes the reappearance of this 1976 live recording a real treat for jazz guitar fans, for whom Hall is one of the greatest and most imitated legends. Hall ...
Lizz Wright: Salt
by Michael Fortuna
Please don't take Lizz Wright's song away. To do so would be blasphemous. The 23-year-old vocalist from Hahira, Georgia has been singing in jazz clubs in Atlanta for a few years, eventually hooking up with the band In the Spirit. Last year she caused a stir when she performed at Billie Holiday tribute ...
The Crusaders: Rural Renewal
by Farrell Lowe
A reunion can often be a poignant event, filled with old friends, happy introductions to new faces, and revisions to relational habits; it can also lead to ossification. Rural Renewal exhibits most of these features. Expect nothing new from this album, but if you're a fan of The Crusaders' 1980s music, you'll find more of that ...
Ben Webster: Soulville
by David Rickert
A photograph on the inside of Soulville 's CD cover shows Webster with his head tilted back, eyelids drooping and a cigarette dangling from his mouth. It’s a great photo, simply because Webster approaches soloing in much the same way. A relaxed and patient improviser who first made his name with Ellington’s band playing one definitive ...
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis Again
by David Rickert
It should come as no surprise that the first collaboration between Ella and Louis was so successful that it was quickly followed by a sequel--and a double album, no less. Even the dumbest A&R man could anticipate the potential magic in the pairing; both singers were at the peak of their popularity in 1957, straying from ...
Regina Carter: Paganini: After a Dream
by Dan McClenaghan
Nicolo Paganini's ghost made the first overture when the city of Genoa, Italy--the legendary violinist's birthplace--invited the American jazz musician Regina Carter to play a concert on the master's priceless two hundred and fifty year old violin, “The Cannon"--so named for its huge sound and sonorous tone. Ms. Carter came, she played; the concert ...
Jef Lee Johnson, Sonny Thompson and Michael Bland: News From the Jungle
by Phil DiPietro
A quintessential slab of guitar-based, acid-drenched, New Power Generation/ Blackrock Coalition crossbred funk brought to you from the recording studios of Minneapolis... starring a now officially, ridiculously, inexcusably under-recognized guitar god/genius/freak from Philadelphia, all coming to you through the good graces of... France?The most intriguing--bizarre, even--musical by-product of Vivendi's corporate devouring of Universal has ...
Herbie Hancock - Michael Brecker - Roy Hargrove: Directions in Music
by Michael L. Nelson
True jazz enthusiasts are often purist by nature. So most of them tend to entertain remakes and tribute documents with a certain amount of trepidation. But enthusiasts and purists alike need not be concerned about the Hancock/Brecker/Hargrove document, Directions in Music: Celebrating Miles Davis and John Coltrane ' Live at Massey Hall.From the downbeat ...
Flip Phillips: Swing is the Thing
by AAJ Staff
The swing craze may have faded, but the authentic heart of the music will never die. In the hands of 85-year-old Flip Phillips, the spirit and sound of the original swing era are as alive and true as he. Whether on his own compositions like the flying intro/outro “The Mark of Zorro" or the rythmic and ...
