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February 28, 2008 · 0 comments
The Best Jazz Tracks for February
If your eyes ever mosey on down toward the bottom left of the Jazz.com home page, you will see a constantly changing feature called Song of the Day. The highlighted song is updated fives times a week, and is always drawn from a recent release worthy of your listening attention.
As regular visitors to the site know, jazz.com reviews individual tracks, not entire CDs. In this day of iPodding and downloading, there is great need for intelligent reviews of the best new tracks, and we are stepping in to fill the void. The Song of the Day is a good resource for fans who want some solid tips on the very best jazz happening now. Our reviews include full personnel, a sassy and savvy assessment of the music, a link for (legal) downloading, and a rating based on jazz.com's proprietary scoring system. (Okay, maybe we haven’t been able to patent it, but it is the closest thing we have to our own “secret sauce.”)
Below is a list of the tracks featured as Song of the Day during the last month. For a complete list of all the Songs of the Day since the launch of the jazz.com site, click here.
Ben Allison: Respiration
Diane Schuur: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Human Bell: Ephaphatha
Giacomo Gates: Melodious Funk
Tom Scott: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Maceo Parker: Hallelujah I Love Her So
Clark Terry & Louie Bellson: Terry's Mood
Hendrik Meurkens: Hot and Stuffy
Ryan Blotnick: Thinning Air
David Linx: Black Crow
Marty Sheller: The Route 44 Flyer
Bill Dixon: Entrances / One
Gonzalo Rubalcaba: This Is It
David Rogers: Oboo Ketua Nyom
Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani: Estate
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Modul 45
Pat Metheny: At Last You're Here
David Finck: Ballad for a Future Day
Jane Ira Bloom: Mental Weather
Horace Silver: Señor Blues (live at Newport)
This blog entry posted by Ted Gioia
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