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Adventures in Radioland
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Wait; Just Ideas; Jozy; Half-man-Half Cookie; Florianapolis; Gotta
Dance; The Wall will Fall; Reincarnation; Mitch Match; 20th Century Ltd
Christmas Cookin'
By Jimmy Smith
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Jingle Bells; We Three Kings (or Orient
Are); The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Santa Claus is Comin' to
Town; Silent Night; God Rest Ye Marry Gentlemen; Baby, It's Cold Outside;
Greensleeves
After the Rain
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Take the Coltrane; My Favorite Things; Sing Me Softly of the Blues;
Encuentros; Naima; Tones for Elvin Jones; Crescent; Afro Blue; After the
Rain
Footprints Live!
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sanctuary; Masqualero; Valse Triste; Go; Aung San Suu Kyi; Footprints; Atlantis; JuJu.
Change of Scenes
By Kenny Clarke
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2002
Track listing: Extravagances; Symptones; Quiproquos; Escarmouches; Touchstone; Provocations
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
...The First Lady of Jazz... I Listening to scores of vocal jazz records, all contemporary, it is easy to lose the trees for the forest, particularly the redwoods. Ella Fitzgerald was one of those rarified talents one took for grated, as she was so damn good that her talent became transparent. Rated with Sarah Vaughan and ...
Jimmy Smith: Christmas Cookin'
by Robert Gilbert
On the cover of Jimmy Smith's 1964 Christmas album, the organist is decked out in a Santa suit behind the wheel of a red sports car with a tree and presents in tow. The irreverent and fun photograph is a good primer to the contents inside, for this is no hackneyed rundown of a group of ...
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
by David Rickert
Most people don’t expect much from Christmas albums, other than a host of familiar songs with a hint of nostalgia to play while decorating the tree. What a treat it is, then, to discover one that raises the bar and doesn’t seem like a half-hearted effort to make a quick buck for the holidays. One could ...
Remember Shakti: Remember Shakti
by Walter Kolosky
In the mid-1970's many believed John McLaughlin had committed commercial suicide by abandoning electric instruments and Western sensibilities in favor of an all-acoustic group with Indian musicians. In fact, record sales for this group, Shakti, were quite disappointing. Sometimes though, a musician has to follow his muse. In this case, McLaughlin was led to create a ...
John McLaughlin: The Promise
by Walter Kolosky
Some highly respected music critics criticized this 1996 effort as a hodge-podge of musical ideas with no central theme. However, they are mistaken. Clearly the thematic nature of this outing was the diversity of the music itself. The original tunes are compositionally strong, and the playing throughout is purposeful and exquisite. McLaughlin has gathered several of ...
