Out of the Cool, released in 1960, was the first recording Gil Evans issued after three straight albums with Miles Davis -- Sketches of Spain being the final one before this. Evans had learned much from Davis about improvisation, instinct, and space (the trumpeter learned plenty, too, especially about color, texture, and dynamic tension). Evans ...
Out of the Cool, released in 1960, was the first recording Gil Evans issued after three straight albums with Miles Davis -- Sketches of Spain being the final one before this. Evans had learned much from Davis about improvisation, instinct, and space (the trumpeter learned plenty, too, especially about color, texture, and dynamic tension). Evans ...
The sixth of eight reissue CDs (available individually or as an eight-CD box set), covers RCA's occasional jazz ventures of the 1970s. There are big-band performances by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Orchestra, Woody Herman (a reunion version of "Four Brothers"), Buddy Rich, Doc Severinsen (a weak effort) and the electrified Gil Evans ...
The archives of Bob Thiele's Impulse label offer this collection of reinterpreted jazz standards, including Art Blakey's "Summertime," Duke Ellington and John Coltrane's "In a Sentimental Mood," Benny Carter's "Body and Soul" and Charles Mingus's "Mood Indigo," as well as material from Shelly Manne, Archie Shepp and Count Basie. ~ Jason Ankeny, ...
The three-disc box set titled The Bossa Nova Story includes the Jazz Masters editions covering Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Stan Getz (each available separately as well). It's practically impossible to imagine three better subjects with which to explore the rich field of bossa nova (especially since major pioneer Joćo Gilberto ...
Bossa Nova: This is Jazz, Vol. 29 is an entertaining 11-track collection that contains such jazz superstars as Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Byrd, Astrud Gilberto and, of course, Antonio Carlos Jobim playing familiar bossa nova tunes. It's not a definitive overview of the genre, but as a sampler, it's quite enjoyable and provides ...
While jazz fanatics will find its very nature frustrating, Cool Talkin' Verve is an enjoyable sampler of ten cool jazz and lounge-pop tracks Verve released during the '60s, targeted at alternative-rock fans raised on the cocktail jazz revival. Though it is designed to appeal to a kitsch audience, the music on the album is anything but campy, ...
As is the case with the Blue Note catalog, the vast holdings of Impulse! are best sampled one album at a time. For the overview-loving listener, though, various-artists collections such as this one offer an enjoyable way to start plotting a single-artist disc strategy. Most of the albums these songs are culled from are without a doubt classics ...
Still an excellent place to start a jazz collection, the Smithsonian's five-volume Classic Jazz series covers the music from its New Orleans days and the swing era up through bebop, hard bop, free jazz, and the years beyond. The fourth installment takes on the '50s, with highlights from Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool session, Lennie Tristano and ...
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