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The Visit
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Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio: The Silver Collection
:Album Description:Japanese exclusive remastered reissue of the jazz act's 1957 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Verve. 2004. :Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson were both consummate performers, comfortable at any tempo, when they met for this 1957 recording, and they're clearly enjoying one another's skills on ballads and uptempo tunes alike. The group is one of the finest editions of Peterson's trios, with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. It's virtually a machine for quiet swing, and the absence of a ...
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Hejira
: essential recording:After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court & Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell's distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator Jaco Pastorius. Known for his furious, sometimes rococo figures beneath the music of Weather Report, Pastorius is tamed by Mitchell's cooler, more deliberate ballads: these meditations coax a ...
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Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba
:Album Description:This unique compilation project brings together the legendary musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club & some of today's most popular music stars Chris Martin (Coldplay), Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Sting, Bono, Radiohead among others, performing collaborations of some of their classic hits. : Created as a benefit project for Artists' Project Earth, an organization devoted to protecting the environment, reversing climate change, and tendering disaster relief, this compilation pairs Western pop stars (U2, Sting, Artic Monkeys, et al) and their hits with all-new arrangements ...
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Speak Low
:Album Description:Speak Low his 17th. studio album; a follow-up to 2003's But Beautiful - 'a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored' says Boz. Songs on the album include Chet Baker's 'She Was Too Good To Be True,' Johnny Mercer's 'This Time the Dream's on Me,' the often recorded 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free' and the Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash title track. 'I'm a vocalist,' Scaggs says. 'I come ...
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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
: :The Memphis-based Stax label enjoyed an incredible run of hits in its heyday. Artists such as Otis Redding Isaac Hayes Booker T. & the MGs and Mavis Staples were all signed to Stax and it seemed like the label couldn't put a foot wrong as its roster helped define the soul/R&B scene. But the label fell on dark days and personal disasters such as the death of Otis Redding have added a great tragedy to the Stax story. RESPECT YOURSELF is a documentary on ...
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It's Magic
:Album Description:Birdology/Dreyfus Jazz is proud to release Ahmad Jamal's tenth US release on the French label, It's Magic, on June 10, 2008. It has been three years since After Fajr, the critically acclaimed album The New York Times declared 'one of his best' (Ben Ratliff, May 30, 2005), and Ahmad Jamal has been keeping very busy. The 77-years old pianist, composer, arranger, producer, manager, and officier (more on that later) has been touring the world, writing new compositions, selling out concert halls, and discovering, producing, ...
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The Very Best of John Coltrane
: :With his inexhaustible technique, trademark sound, and limitless imagination, tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane was one of jazz's most dominant musicians. This collection covers his important Atlantic Records sessions recorded from 1959 to 1960 (chronicled in their entirety on Heavyweight Champion). The tunes signal an important transitional phase from Trane's stints with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his emergence as a leader in his own right. 'Giant Steps' 'Naima,' and 'Cousin Mary'--featuring pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Art Taylor--crystallized Trane's supersonic 'sheets of ...
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Michael Flatley - Lord of the Dance
: :Billed as an updating and retelling of Irish folk legend, Lord of the Dance is less Erin Go Bragh than Hooray for Hollywood. Michael Flatley, late of Riverdance, gives us the old razzle-dazzle, fashioning a Celtic-influenced spectacular that wanders far away from its Riverdance roots. The light-show presentation is closer kin to another contemporary Irish musical group, U2. Flatley himself has gone designer chic. With close-cropped haircut, earring, buffed abs, and tight black pants he bears more than a passing resemblance to Bono. But you ...
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White Christmas
: :Try to forget the fact that Bing Crosby probably never had to record another song in his life after he immortalized 'White Christmas.' If you can do that, you'll find plenty more to like in this crooning Christmas collection. There's the Romantic Bing, charming the tinsel right off the tree with 'The Christmas Song,' and that cure for cabin fever, 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' There's the Reverent Bing, solemnly singing 'Adeste Fideles.' And of course, there's Bing the Showman, belting ...
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