Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The revolution was recorded: in 1969 Bitches Brew sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, production methods, album-cover art, and two-LP length all signaled that jazz could never be the same. Over three days anger, confusion, and exhilaration had reigned in the studio, and the sonic themes, scraps, grooves, and sheer will and emotion that resulted were percolated and edited into an astonishingly organic work. This Miles Davis wasn't merely presenting a simple hybrid like ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Japanese DSD remastered reissue of 1974 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature gatefold LP sleeve. 2001.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:With the release of 2004's Night on the Town, Tampa, Florida-born saxophonist Eric Darius came out of nowhere to become one of the most promising and exciting young players in smooth jazz. Noted for his unflagging passion, Eric's albums and particularly his live performances, have been earning him fans at every turn. On his Blue Note Records debut album, Goin' All Out, Darius explores new directions incorporating contemporary R&B and hip-hop styles, bringing a fresh, youthful, urban vibe to his smooth jazz sound.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:50 track collection featuring all her hits, 'Fly Me to the Moon', 'Cry Me a River', 'Sway', 'One for My Baby', 'Wives and Lovers' and many more tracks spanning her entire career. EMI. 2005.
Editorial Product Review: :A New Standard builds on the popularity of Steve Tyrell's appearances in the Father of the Bride movies. In addition to 'The Way You Look Tonight' (from the Father of the Bride soundtrack) and 'Give Me the Simple Life' and 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' (from Father of the Bride, Part II), the album features Tyrell singing 14 more standards in a casual, gravel-throated style. A New Standard includes the final recorded performances of trumpet great Harry 'Sweets' Edison, who solos on 'Don't ...
Editorial Product Review: :A New Standard builds on the popularity of Steve Tyrell's appearances in the Father of the Bride movies. In addition to 'The Way You Look Tonight' (from the Father of the Bride soundtrack) and 'Give Me the Simple Life' and 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' (from Father of the Bride, Part II), the album features Tyrell singing 14 more standards in a casual, gravel-throated style. A New Standard includes the final recorded performances of trumpet great Harry 'Sweets' Edison, who solos on 'Don't ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Style, sophistication, elegance...where can we find that old-school cool in our consumer culture of instantly disposable celebrity? Time to meet Patrizio Buanne. Tall, dark and handsome, perfectly groomed and impeccably dressed, the clean cut Italian with the rich baritone voice is an enigma. Inspired by the singers of yesteryear, Patrizio harks back to a time when a man would not dream of singing on stage in anything less than a suit, shoes, polished, clean-shaven, hair neatly brushed, with a dab of cologne behind the ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is a real sleeper of an album, literally. Smooth-jazz musicians--including Peter White, Dave Koz, Norman Brown, David Benoit, and others--play music here to put babies to sleep. Fans of New Age music, specifically what came out of the Pacific Northwest in the '80s, may find many of these 14 tracks reminiscent of that period. Long-time listeners of smooth-jazz radio may be reminded of the kind of ethereal, spacey music that was played in the early days of the format. Many of the songs are ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Released in January 1960, John Coltrane's first album devoted entirely to his own compositions confirmed his towering command of tenor saxophone and his emerging power as a composer. Apprenticeships with Dizzy, Miles, and Monk had helped focus his furious, expansive solos, and his stamina and underlying sense of harmonic adventure brought Coltrane, at 33, to a new cusp--the polytonal 'sheets of sound' that distinguished his marathon solos were offset by interludes of subtle, concise lyricism, embodied here in the tender 'Naima.' That classic ...
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