Editorial Product Review: :Tokyo Day Trip: Live EP is a collection of 5 tracks recorded live in Tokyo with Metheny s trio, featuring bassist Christian McBride anddrummer Antonio Sanchez. The tracks were recorded at the end of 2004, before the trio went into the studio to record the recentlyreleased and highly praised Day Trip.The tracks were produced, mixed and mastered by Metheny and long time collaborator Steve Rodby. Several tracks were previouslyavailable as digital - only downloads; this will be ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:A Smooth Jazz collection of songs that paint a vivid and emotional portrait of the night. Featuring twelve tracks from some of Smooth Jazz's best-known artists and a brand new track produced by Brian Bromberg featuring up and coming trumpet player Tony Guerrero, 'Smooth Jazz At Midnight' is a touching account of the passion, mystery, and serenity that can only be found after dark. Whether you are driving home late at night, or at home by the ...
Editorial Product Review: :A 20-track collection from the Reprise years that tries to cover too much ground. Very Good Years sweeps from the early 1960s to 1979's 'New York New York,' focusing on the most obvious Sinatra standards. The watchword here isn't art but populism. That's not a problem, really--but it means that serious fans (or those aspiring to be) will be better served elsewhere. It would be a fine introduction for the casual music lover, but so would any decent ...
Editorial Product Review: :Beck, drummer Narada Michael Walden, and producer George Martin here embark on a potent jazz-rock journey, making stops at the ferocious 'Led Boots,' the thumb-popping R&B of 'Come Dancing,' and the hooky 'Blue Wind' (written by former Mahavishnu synth player Jan Hammer). Max Middleton's funky clavinet on 'Play with Me' and his pulsing Rhodes piano work on 'Sophie' add color and rhythmic urgency to Beck's searing guitar, with its unmistakable tone and vocal-like inflections. Released a year after ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The classic Pink Floyd's album, 'Dark Side of the Moon', is reinterpreted by the American group in a dub version. Songs like Time, 'On the Run' and 'The Great Gig in the Sky' wins, in this CD, a Jamaican cloth. :Talk about high concept: this project features the house band of noted New York reggae label Easy Star covering Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in the same sequence and in recognizable but reggae fashion. Here, ...
Editorial Product Review: :If you enjoyed the dancing in You Got Served and wondered how they did those moves, this 54-minute dance instruction DVD will give you a hint. Choreographer Dave Scott leads a group of dancers in three routines. He breaks down each move slowly, then combines several and speeds them up. Each pattern uses complex footwork, armwork, and body isolations, and unless you're an experienced dancer, you'll need to stop and reverse frequently to practice and memorize. 'You've got ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
