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March 06, 2008 · 0 comments
Weekend Track Review Roundup
Jazz.com’s team of 33 reviewers has published 600 reviews during the last ten weeks – offering our site visitors the widest coverage of jazz music available anywhere, in print or on the web. These reviews encompass the whole history of the music, from the classics of decades past to the latest releases out this week.
Unlike other jazz media outlets, jazz.com reviews individual tracks, not entire CDs. This allows reviewers (and readers, who are invited to add their own comments to each and every review) to discuss the music with a degree of specificity and detail hardly possible in a more general CD review. Reviews also come with complete personnel and recording info, as well as a link for fast (and legal) downloading.
Below is a round-up of a few of the reviews published during the last two weeks. As always, we include a ranking based on jazz.com’s proprietary 100 point scale.
You can search through all 1,800 reviews in our large (and constantly growing) database by using the new and improved search engine in the left sidebar on our Music page. It will allow you to search by artist, sideman, song title, or CD name.
Of course, jazz.com has just scratched the surface so far - after all, our web site is less than three months old. In any event, we remain committed to our quixotic but noble quest to review all of the great (or not-so-great) tracks recorded since Thomas Edison first captured the strains of “Ornithology” on a wax cylinder. Keep an eye on this space for further developments. Meanwhile, check out the most recent batch of reviews below.
Miles Davis: Venus de Milo
Uri Caine: Cheek to Cheek
Wynton Marsalis: Cherokee
Charlie Parker: Parker’s Mood
McCoy Tyne: Passion Dance
Dexter Gordon: The Moontrane
Dave Douglas: The Infinite
Michael Brecker: African Skies
Nick Brignola: Tears Inside
Bert Joris: Mr. Dodo
Arild Andersen: Pavane
Ahmad Jamal: Wave
John McLaughlin: New York on My Mind
Patricia Barber: Yesterdays
Giovanni Mirabassi: El Paso del Ebro
Clusone 3: Skylark
Larry Coryell: Tamari
Steve Coleman: Embryo
Ernst Reijseger and Franco D'Andrea: Two Colors
Freddie Hubbard: But Beautiful
Jack Walrath: Orange Has Me Down
Gianluigi Trovesi: Variazioni su Ose Shalom
Alan Broadbent & Gary Foster; Relaxin’ at Camarillo
Felipe Salles: Seven Days
Betty Carter: Feed the Fire
Donald Brown: On Green Dolphin Street
Keb Mo: Come On in My Kitchen
Oliver Nelson: Three Plus One
Jan Hammer; Oh, Yeah?
Alexi Tuomarila: Noaidi
Cuong Vu: Accelerated Thoughts
Art Pepper: Winter Moon
Lucky Thompson: Deep Passion
Elisabeth Kontomanou: Sunny
Bobo Stenson: Bengali Blue
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