JOSHUA REDMAN - TRIOS LIVE
Nonesuch Records presents saxophonist Joshua Redman's Trios
Live. The album was recorded at New York City s Jazz Standard and Washington,
DC s Blues Alley during stands with two different trios Redman and drummer
Gregory Hutchinson with bassist Matt Penman (Jazz Standard) and Redman and
Hutchinson with bassist Reuben Rogers (Blues Alley). Trios Live features four
original tunes by Redman and interpretations of three additional songs. "This album is dedicated to all those folks, all around
the world, of all ages, identities, allegiances, and persuasions, who come out,
day to day, night after night, to see and hear live jazz," Redman says in
the album's liner notes. "You bear witness to this music; you testify to
that moment. You are here. You were there. You made it possible. You make it
real. You are the reason. You were the point." ~ Amazon.com
YUSEF LATEEF / ROSCOE MITCELL / DOUGLAS EWART / ADAM RUDOLPH - VOICE PRINTS
Some of the most spiritual work we've heard from Yusef
Lateef in years – a set cut with AACM legends Roscoe Mitchell and Douglas
Ewart, and done with a sound that takes us back to the legendary sounds of both
players in the 70s! Adam Rudolph also joins the quartet, bringing in some great
percussion – and the album's a really collaborative affair, with all the
musicians shifting through a wide range of instrumentation in their own spheres
of expertise – at a level that recalls the work of the Art Ensemble of Chicago
at their best. Lateef plays tenor, flutes, oboe, and even vocalizes a bit – as
does Ewart, who along with Roscoe Mitchell plays a range of reeds and
percussion instruments. Titles include "Voice Prints", "Sound
Search", "Harpers Ferry", and "Morning Moves". ~ Dusty Groove
INGE BRANDENBURG - DON'T BLAME ME: EUROPE'S BEST JAZZ SINGER IN CONCERT 1958-1962
Rare work from the lovely Inge Brandenburg – one of
Germany's hippest jazz singers of the postwar years – and an artist who set the
tone for later work from a range of European vocalists! Inge sings in English
throughout, and has a groove that's almost in the Verve Records mode – often
with small combo backing that allow Inge lots of room for inflection on the
lyrics and a definite jazz-based sensibility – and a style that might be
somewhere between that of Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald. The package brings
together a host of well-recorded live tracks from the late 50s and early 60s –
only two of which have ever been issued before – and titles include
"Secret Love", "Lover Man", "That Old Black
Magic", "S'Wonderful", "Lover Come Back To Me",
"There'll Never Be Another You", and "Dancing On The
Ceiling". ~ Dusty Groove
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