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March 20, 2008 · 0 comments
Weekend Track Review Roundup
Jazz.com has published 157 reviews during the last three weeks – offering our site visitors the widest coverage of jazz music available anywhere, in print or on the web. Whether your idea of a “jazz marriage made in heaven” is Bob Dorough & Dave Frishberg or Marty Ehrlich & Muhal Richard Abrams, the jazz.com team of more than thirty reviewers has it covered.
We now have almost 2,000 track reviews in our large (and constantly growing) database. You can search for specific tracks, artists or CDs by using the new and improved search engine in the left sidebar on our Music page.
Unlike other jazz media outlets, jazz.com reviews individual tracks, not entire CDs. This allows reviewers (and readers, who are invited to publish their own addendums to each and every review) to hash out the pros and cons of a wide range of songs, with a degree of specificity hardly possible in a more general CD review. Reviews also come with full personnel and recording info, as well as a link for fast (and legal) downloading.
We remain committed to our quixotic but noble quest to review all of the great (and not-so-great) tracks recorded since the first red light went up in Storyville. Keep an eye on this space for further developments. Meanwhile, you will find links below to a few of the reviews published during the last two weeks. As always, every review includes a ranking based on jazz.com’s proprietary 100 point scale.
Coleman Hawkins: The Man I Love
Woody Shaw: All the Things You Are
Dianne Reeves: Lullaby of Broadway
Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kühn: Faxing
Kenny Barron & Regina Carter: Fragile
Danny Gottlieb: Aquamarine
Lizz Wright: Hey Mann
Frank Trumbauer: I Never Miss the Sunshine
Keith Jarrett & Gary Burton: Como en Vietnam
Charlie Parker: I Get a Kick Out of You
Donald Byrd: Mustang
Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian: Benny’s Bugle
Muhal Richard Abrams & Marty Ehrlich: Blues to You
Bob Dorough & Dave Frishberg: Where You At?
Mike Stern: DC
Michael Franks: The Lady Wants to Know
Count Basie: Blee Blop Blues
Vinnie Colaiuta: John’s Blues
Dixie Dregs: Cruise Control
Mark Elf: Liftoff
Jeff Beck: Blue Wind
Pharoah Sanders: Japan
Bob Mintzer: Mine is Yours
Michel Camilo & Tomatito: Spain
Marc Ducret & Bobby Previte: Handy
Bob Dorough & Dave Frishberg: Where You At?
Ted Heath: Father Knickerbocker
Al Di Meola: Egyptian Danza
Steve Kuhn: Oceans in the Sky
Béla Fleck: The Sinister Minister
Toots Thielemans: Waltz for Debby
Miles Davis (with Charlie Parker): Round Midnight
Tito Rodriguez: Perdido
Gary Husband: Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
Stu Goldberg & Cassius Khan: Ragamala
Martial Solal & Johnny Griffin: You Stepped Out of a Dream
Rita Marcotulli: Les 400 Coups
Eric Vloeimans: Chorizo
Bill Evans: Let the Juice Loose
Oliver Nelson: Hoe Down
Jim Beard: Diana
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