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March 31, 2009 · 0 comments
The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month
Five days per week, jazz.com features an outstanding recent track as Song of the Day. Today we look back at the recordings highlighted during the last month.
You will notice some familiar names below. Many jazz fans have CDs by Branford Marsalis and The Bad Plus, but both have outstanding new recordings that were highlighted here during March. Dr. Lonnie Smith has been receiving lots of airplay for his latest CD, and we picked his spirited cover of the Beatles’ “Come Together” as one of our featured tracks. Rudresh Mahanthappa continues to impress, and if you haven’t checked out his recent work, the new release from his Indo-Pak Coalition comes strongly recommended.
South Asian jazz fusion must have been on our reviewers’ minds this month, because in addition to Mahanthappa's disk, we also called attention to Fareed Haque’s “32 Taxis”—a musical evocation of a busy Calcutta intersection—and “Mukti” from the New York band Bangalore Breakdown, an eclectic ensemble that mixes jazz, African and Indian elements in their music.
To learn more, click on the links below. As always, jazz.com’s reviews come with full recording info, a ranking from 0 to 100—determined without reliance on regression analysis software or credit default swaps—and a succinct appraisal by a savvy critic. You will also find a link for fast (and legal) downloading.
Happy listening!
Featured Songs: March 2009
Sound Assembly: Slide Therapy
Reviewed by Mark Saleski
Denny Zeitlin: Mr. P.C.
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Fareed Haque: 32 Taxis
Reviewed by S. Victor Aaron
Tobin Mueller: Must Go Back
Reviewed by Walter Kolosky
The Bad Plus (with Wendy Lewis): Lithium
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Mark Winkler: Cool
Reviewed by Ralph A. Miriello
Dr. Lonnie Smith: Come Together
Reviewed by S. Victor Aaron
Branford Marsalis: The Return of the Jitney Man
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Bipolar: Just the Two of Us
Reviewed by S. Victor Aaron
Cheikh Ndoye: Rewmi
Reviewed by Scott Albin
Ada Rovatti: The Untold Story
Reviewed by S. Victor Aaron
Peter Bernstein: Work
Reviewed by Eric Novod
Bangalore Breakdown: Mukti
Reviewed by Walter Kolosky
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Dan Adler: All Things Familiar
Reviewed by Mark Saleski
Aaron J. Johnson: Big Fun Blues
Reviewed by Mark Saleski
Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway: Blue Waltz
Reviewed by Ralph A. Miriello
Claudio Roditi: Tune Up
Reviewed by Bill Barnes
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes: Gonna Get Old Someday
Reviewed by Ted Gioia
Greg Skaff: Tropicalia
Reviewed by Ralph A. Miriello
Ran Blake: Lost Highway
Reviewed by Mark Saleski
Enrico Rava: Outsider
Reviewed by S. Victor Aaron
David Binney: Squares and Palaces
Reviewed by Walter Kolosky
This blog article posted by Ted Gioia.
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