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June 19, 2008 · 0 comments
Weekend Track Review Roundup
It’s not your typical Juneteenth around jazz.com. Like beaming parents, we are celebrating the arrival of our 2,500th review. I am not sure which makes us prouder – the milestone or the fact that the author is tenor titan Joe Lovano.
Check back in a few days to read it . . . as part of Mr. Lovano’s guest Dozens, where he selects and discusses twelve favorite John Coltrane tracks. This article will mark the latest in our “guest artist” Dozens series, edited by the estimable Ted Panken, who recently brought you Randy Brecker’s overview of Freddie Hubbard tracks and Eric Reed’s survey of the work of Ahmad Jamal.
In the meantime, we present links below to a sampling of jazz.com reviews published during the last three weeks. As always, our goal -- quixotic, yet noble -- is to cover all the great (and not so great) tracks recorded by jazz artists since the first tawdry story came out of Storyville. We aim for a fairly even balance between covering new music and old music. Five times each week, we highlight a Song of the Day drawn from the best of the current releases. We also offer a daily retrospective glance at a jazz masterpiece, as part of our A Classic Revisited feature.
All reviews come with fair and judicious appraisal that would make Learned Hand proud, and a ranking based on our proprietary 100 point scale. We also include, whenever possible, links for fast (and legal) downloading. And site visitors can add their own concurring or dissenting opinions at the bottom of each review.
Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz: It Don’t Mean a Thing
Keith Jarrett: The Survivors’ Suite
Esbjörn Svensson: Somewhere Else Before
Chick Corea: Compadres
Ornette Coleman: First Take
John Coltrane: Afro Blue
Wynton Marsalis: The Majesty of the Blues
Queen Latifah: I Love Being Here With You
Keith Jarrett: Death and the Flower
Eddie Daniels: Falling in Love With Love
Django Reinhardt: Improvisation No. 2
Sonny Rollins: We Kiss in Shadow
Miles Davis: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Charles Mingus: Dizzy Moods
Lennie Tristano: Background Music
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: These Foolish Things
Art Pepper: Star Eyes
Wynton Marsalis: Stardust
Warne Marsh: The Nearness of You
Weather Report: Black Market (Live)
Allan Holdsworth: Velvet Darkness
Tete Montoliu: Straight No Chaser
Chubby Jackson: A Ballad for Jai
Bud Powell: Just One of Those Things
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Just Friends
Ahn Trio: My Funny Valentine
Lenny White: Mating Drive
Gong: Soli
Pat Martino: Line Games
Benny Carter: A Foggy Day
Stan Kenton & June Christy: Prelude to a Kiss
Chico Freeman: It Never Entered My Mind
Von Freeman: Portrait of John Young
Stanley Clarke: Lopsy Lu
Elli Fordyce: Dindi
Jack DeJohnette: Minority
Jack DeJohnette: One for Eric
Mark Levine: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Miles Davis / Bill Laswell: In a Silent Way
Shakti: Face to Face
Jean-Luc Ponty: Is Once Enough?
John La Barbera: Walk on the Wild Side
Sonny Rollins: Grand Street
Jean-Luc Ponty: New Country
Teddy Wilson: More Than You Know
Toben Waldorff: Squealfish
Jackie McLean: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
John Coltrane: Chasin’ Another Trane
James Blood Ulmer: Jazz is the Teacher
Jackie McLean: Melody for Melonae
Billy Cobham: Life and Times
Weather Report: Volcano for Hire
Jean-Luc Ponty: Demagomania
David Sancious: Suite (From the End of An Age)
Benny Carter: I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
Paul Gonsalves: I Surrender Dear
Soprano Summit: Chalumeau Blue
Tim Hagans: Over and Back
Hugo Díaz: Milonga Triste
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