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Z: Bad Guys

by Mark Corroto
January 23, 2006

Face it: jazz will never again regain the audience (or power) it held sixty, fifty, or even forty years ago. The giants--Monk, Mingus, and Coltrane--are gone. Sure, the listeners who read these reviews are moved by the music, but the kids in the streets are marching to a different beat... literally. We temper our ...

A Jazzar No Zeca: The Music of Jos

By Z

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Era de Noite e Levaram; Grandola Vila Morena; Canto Moco; O Que Faz Falta; Cora da Primavera; Traz Outro Amigo Tambem; Cantar Alentejano; Escandanavia-Bar; Clean Free

Z: A Jazzar No Zeca

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2005

Internationally renowned bassist, composer, and musical director Zé Eduardo has been a seminal figure and a long-time fixture on the Portuguese jazz landscape. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the end of Portuguese rightist rule, he pays tribute to the songs of José Afonso with A Jazzar No Zeca. To begin to ...

Z: A Jazzar No Zeca: The Music of Jos

by Germein Linares
April 20, 2005

At some point in the past, jazz from Europe, like wines from America, was second-class stuff, adequate, but somehow out of sync with the real thing. Nowadays, though, you'd have to be a complete loon not to appreciate the craftsmanship and excellence of European jazz (the same goes for American wine). Portuguese bassist Zé Eduardo, the ...