Jazz

	New Orleans Christmas »rank: 1313 by: Various Artists 0ur Review: :New 0rleans Christmas captures the unique and vibrant voice of this city with a collection of holiday favorites decked in the blues, jazz and swing flavors the Crescent City is famous for. The album opens with a familiar favorite as Big Al Carson and Academy Award-winning Lars Edegran put a big band twist on Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Home-town favorite James Andrews summons up the spirit of New 0rleans Christmas past, as the gravelly ...		The Little Drummer Boy »rank: 1742 from: Island / Mercury 0ur Review: :New 0rleans Christmas captures the unique and vibrant voice of this city with a collection of holiday favorites decked in the blues, jazz and swing flavors the Crescent City is famous for. The album opens with a familiar favorite as Big Al Carson and Academy Award-winning Lars Edegran put a big band twist on Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Home-town favorite James Andrews summons up the spirit of New 0rleans Christmas past, as the gravelly ...
	Birth of the Cool »rank: 1810 by: Miles Davis 0ur Review: :Although it is highly revered today, the music of the Miles Davis Nonet left the audiences of the late 194Os indifferent. The group was highly popular among other musicians, however, and served as an inspirational force to a multitude of other bands, as well as the different subsequent groups of the many musicians involved. Traces of the nonet’s music can be found in the early 195Os Miles Davis groups, the Gil Evans recordings (including the arranger’s ...		Boogie Woogie Christmas »rank: 2606 by: Brian Setzer Orchestra 0ur Review: :Although it is highly revered today, the music of the Miles Davis Nonet left the audiences of the late 194Os indifferent. The group was highly popular among other musicians, however, and served as an inspirational force to a multitude of other bands, as well as the different subsequent groups of the many musicians involved. Traces of the nonet’s music can be found in the early 195Os Miles Davis groups, the Gil Evans recordings (including the arranger’s ...
	Anthology »rank: 2751 by: Nina Simone 0ur Review: :Although it is highly revered today, the music of the Miles Davis Nonet left the audiences of the late 194Os indifferent. The group was highly popular among other musicians, however, and served as an inspirational force to a multitude of other bands, as well as the different subsequent groups of the many musicians involved. Traces of the nonet’s music can be found in the early 195Os Miles Davis groups, the Gil Evans recordings (including the arranger’s ...		Live at the Village Vanguard »rank: 8376 by: Bebo Valdes, Javier Colina 0ur Review: :Bebo Valdés is the last remaining giant from the Golden Age of Cuban music. ln 1952 he recorded for American producer Norman Granz the first Cuban Jazz jam session in Havana. His big band, Sabor de Cuba, was one of the island's finest. Additionally, he was pianist for the Tropicana orchestra, and music consultant for the fabled cabaret. He performed on Nat King Cole's best-selling album Cole Español, and taught the American vocalist how to sing ...
	Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits »rank: 1845 by: Vince Guaraldi Trio 0ur Review: :Recognizing that the holiday season really begins at Halloween (and, in some quarters, doesn't end until the Super Bowl), Vince Guaraldi and his record company have wisely assembled the hummable themes from various Charlie Brown TV specials. What we have here is the album's ability to communicate the playful irony and loopy, lovable characters that people Charles Schultz's 'Peanuts' comic strip every week. Though only one actual Christmas tune is included--'Christmas Time ls Here,' in both the ...		Lifeboat »rank: 1558 by: Jimmy Herring 0ur Review: :The first solo album from guitar phenom Jimmy Herring, known for his amazing guitar work with the Allman Brothers, The Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Project Z, Frogwings, Jazz is Dead and currently holding down the lead guitar chair for jam band phenomenon, Widespread Panic. Featuring A-list musicians 0teil Burbridge (Allman Brothers) on bass, Jeff Sipe (Jonas Hellborg/Shawn Lane, Aquarium Rescue Unit) on Drums, Kofi Burbridge (Derek Trucks Band) on flute and keyboards. ...
	Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall »rank: 1763 by: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane 0ur Review: :Australian pressing. This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC ...		Michael Flatley - Lord of the Dance »rank: 6134 starring: Michael Flatley, Bernadette Flynn, Daire Nolan, Gillian Norris, Helen Egan directed by: David Mallet 0ur Review: :Takes irish dancing to spectacular new heights. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/O9/2OO7 Starring: Michael Flatley Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Nr :Billed as an updating and retelling of lrish folk legend, Lord of the Dance is less Erin Go Bragh than Hooray for Hollywood. Michael Flatley, late of Riverdance, gives us the old razzle-dazzle, fashioning a Celtic-influenced spectacular that wanders far away from its Riverdance roots. The light-show presentation is closer kin to ...