Guitar Standards

Guitar Standards

ASIN: B00004RGIE

Track Listings

1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

2. Marcha de los Mexicanos

3. Make Believe

4. On the Jericho Road

5. Emaline

6. For Me and My Gal

7. After You've Gone

8. Roaring Twenties Medley

9. Roses for a Blue Lady

10. It's De-Lovely

11. Dreamer's Holiday

12. Mack the Knife

13. Hot Toddy

14. House of David Blues

15. Sweet and Lovely

16. Liza

17. Swanee

18. If I Had You

19. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

20. Westphalia Waltz

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Henry Lee - Dick Justice
Fatal Flower Garden - Nelston's Hawaiians
House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
Drunkard's Special - Coley Jones
Old Lady And The Devil - Bill & Belle Reed
The Butcher's Boy - Buell Kazee
The Wagoner's Lad - Buell Kazee
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O - Chubby Parker
Old Shoes And Leggins - Uncle Eck Dunford
Willie Moore - Richard Burnett And Leonard Rutherford
A Lazy Farmer Boy - Buster Carter And Preston Young
Peg And Awl - Carolina Tar Heels
Ommie Wise - G.B. Grayson
My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell

Tracks:

Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrel
John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man - Carter Family
Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand - Williamson Brothers And Curry
Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
White House Blues - Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers
Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith
Engine 143 - Carter Family
Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
Down On Penny's Farm - Bently Boys
Mississippi Boweavil Blues - Masked Marvel
Got The Farm Land Blues - Carolina Tar Heels

Tracks:

Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens
The Wild Wagoner - Jilson Setters
Wake Up Jacob - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
La Danseuse - Delma Lachney And Blind Uncle Gaspard
Georgia Stomp - Andrew And Jim Baxter
Brilliancy Medley - Eck Robertson
Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming & His Pep-Steppers
Old Country Stomp - Henry Thomas
Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson
Saut Crapaud - Columbus Fruge
Acadian One-Step - Joseph Falcon
Home Sweet Home - Breaux Freres
Newport Blues - Cincinnati Jug Band
Moonshiner's Dance (Part One) - Frank Cloutier And The Victoria Cafe Orchestra

Tracks:

You Must Be Born Again - Rev. J.M. Gates
Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting - Rev. J.M. Gates
Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
This Song Of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Conv. No. 1
Judgement - Sister Mary Nelson
He Got Better Things For You - Memphis Sanctified Singers
Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntorsh & Edwards' Sanctified Singers
John The Baptist - Rev. Moses Mason
Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
Little Moses - Carter Family
Shine On Me - Ernest Phipps & Holiness Singers
Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee
In The Battlefield For My Lord - Rev. D.C. Rice And Congregation

Tracks:

The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
East Virginia - Buell Kazee
Minglewood Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
I Woke Up One Morning In May - Didier Hebert
James Alley Blues - Richard 'Rabbit' Brown
Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest And Hattie Stoneman
The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - Stoneman Family
Bob Lee Junior Blues - Memphis Jug Band
Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family
Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Cleoma Breaux & Joseph Falcon
Rabbit Foot Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Expressman Blues - Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell

Tracks:

Poor Boy Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers
Country Blues - Dock Boggs
99 Year Blues - Julius Daniels
Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
C'est Si Triste Sans Lui - Cleoma And Ophy Breaux And Joseph Falcon
Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave Macon
Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line - Uncle Dave Macon
Spike Driver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
Train On The Island - J.P. Nestor
The Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas

Amazon.com

This impressive--and frankly, fun--musical document is still sending out shock waves almost 50 years after its original 1952 vinyl release. The Smithsonian's six-CD reissue is painstakingly researched, annotated, and packaged (even boasting an enhanced disc for the techno-capable). Unlike field recorders, eccentric filmmaker/collector/musicologist Harry Smith assembled the Anthology from commercially released (though obscure) 78 rpm discs issued between 1927 and 1935. Its broad scope--from country blues to Cajun social music to Appalachian murder ballads--was monumentally influential, setting musicians like Bob Dylan down the path to folk fandom. The White House started its own national music library with the Anthology; anyone with more than a passing interest in American roots music should do the same. --Michael Ruby

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Album Description

This deluxe 6-CD collector's boxed set contains a 96-page book featuring Harry Smith's original songbook framed by essays by Greil Marcus and other noted writers, musicians, and scholars. Play the enhanced sixth disc on your CD-ROM drive and access historic video footage, rare photos, artist interviews, and additional background information. Edited by Harry Smith. Reissue compiled by the staff of Smithsonian Folkways. Reissue liner notes by Greil Marcus, Neil Rosenberg, Jeff Place, Jon Pankake, Luis Kemnitzer and others. "...the missing link in rock's official history." -Newsweek ***** (five stars) -Rolling Stone

Customer Reviews:

totally essential listening.......2007-02-15

This CD compilation set is more than just an album of music--it's a historical document. I first heard of the AAFM in a Bob Dylan biography--after buying this and listening to it, I can understand how Bob was inspired to ditch his Little Richard aspirations and travel the rugged road of folk. Through the three sections--Ballads, Social Music (mostly instrumentals), and Songs (kind of like ballads, but less story-oriented), this collection not only contains some great, timeless music and performances, it's also steeped in pure humanity--the real essence of true folk music. The people Harry Smith collected and anthologized were mostly just that: folk. People like you and me who love music, and play the songs they've been handed down. You don't have to be Bob Dylan to appreciate and be moved by songs that have been passed down through the generations and soulfully interpreted by many different artists.

Aside from some essential listening ("Coo Coo Bird," "Stackalee," "Mississippi Boweavil Blues," "I wish I Was a Mole in the Ground," etc. etc.), the package has some great supplementary material. It's very interesting to learn about the song information and performer information that Smith collected with his anthology, but it's also interesting to get a glimpse into his project, seeing how he relentlessly collected and chose which songs to represent. He was a true lover of music, and that love is reflected in his project.

Please don't come to this compilation expecting pristine sound quality--it was assembled in the 50's, which means that the recordings come from then as well as much earlier--it's about the music and performers anyway, and a little bit of scratch really doesn't detract that much from the organic, down home experience. It IS a bit of a shame that there are 6 CDs, but really only about 4 full CDs worth of music--it would have been OK with me if the Ballad/Social Music/Songs organization was not cleanly divided between discs to save space, since the division isn't very efficient, but I suppose the reissuers wanted to emulate the original vinyl collection. I don't really find the material to be homogeneous like the second spotlight reviewer does, although I do agree that Roots and Blues: A Retrospective is also a great compilation--I'd recommend getting both for a great complementary experience.

Hopefully this set never goes out of print, as it's a great piece of art that any music fan or musician can learn a lot from--and enjoy, too! It's a shame that Smith had to preserve this music as it was beginning to die out even as he was collecting it, but it's also heartwarming that such classic sounds can be preserved for us to hear so many years later and keep the tradition alive. Enjoy the living history!

The grandfather of the reissue records.......2005-02-21

This collection led to the "re-discovery" of many artists who had dissapeared after when the depression crippled the recording industry. Mississippi John Hurt is probably the most famous as of now, but others, like Clarence Ashley were major finds at the time - and when Folkways sent a field crew to do a new record by Ashley he requested some assist from a young friend named Doc Watson. Watson was unknown outside his home town at the time but went on to become a major star in a field which has very few stars.
Listening to many cuts on this album you can hear the source of much material for folk groups as diverse as the New Lost City Ramblers and The Holy Modal Rounders, rock groups like Canned Heat, and The Grateful Dead. Some of the melodies will be familiar to fans of Dylan, others to Jorma Kaukonan listeners. There are otehrs -- many many others.
This set is the source, the headwaters of reissues, and revivals. An essential part of any folk music collection.

Necessary........2003-05-28

I dont think there is a need to go into to much detail about this *6 CD* set. If you can fork over the cash, just buy it. If you have any interest in roots music, just buy it. If you thought ol' Bobby Dylan and the Band made some great weird music in the basement of big pink in '67 .. for the love of god, BUY THIS! strange, unadorned, raw music , just buy it.

Essential.......2002-11-30

Much ink & many electrons have been devoted to explaining both Harry Smith (and a lot of explanation is necessary -- very interesting man) and this wonderful collection of recordings from the 1920's and 30's, so I won't go into too much detail here. If you'd like a good treatise on the work itself as a cultural object, and how it relates to other thematically similar items, I would reccomend Griel Marcus' book Invisible Republic.
This is the greatest mix tape ever made, and an essential cultural artifact, not only of the vernacular music of the hills & highways of pre-electrification America, but also of the folk movement ofthe fifties and sixties (the primer fromwhic all else was derived) and by extension of the hippy movement following closely thereafter.
SOme of this music is really wild...

Mysterious, Beautiful and a Kick Inside.......2002-08-22

I half heard a story about the Anthology on Natl Public Radio a few months ago while I was getting ready for work. The story kept coming back to me, until I had to buy the Anthology to get some peace. Instead of peace, I find that I am now disturbed, intrigued, and haunted.

Music is ill-suited to being described in words, so I'll use an entirely different experience to try and convey what listening to this Anthology is like.

I once knew a fellow who had grown up on Bechtel construction project sites around the world. As a kid playing in the dirt at these sites, he'd collected a box full of those stone tools that humans made and used for something like three million years. I found that once I had turned one of these slips of chipped obsidian or shale over for a moment, it settled naturally into my hand. There was a spot for my thumb, another spot for my forefinger, and my hand was making a scraping or digging motion with the thing. The tool and my hand still remembered their ancient partnership, without any volition from me. This sensation was simultaneously disturbing and satisfying and made the hair stand up on my neck.

This sensation is very close to what I feel listening to this anthology. You will not hear the familiar, highly produced music we're now so comfortable with. You will hear the voice and sound of music as it has been for millions of years -- and you will recognize what you are hearing as being utterly, essentially human.

These recordings were, of course, made only 75 years ago in the 1920's, surely part of the modern era. Yet this was the last moment in time between the old world and the new world. We still sing and play music for the same reasons we always have, but the way we used our voices and instruments for millions of years has been changed by technology. So if these not very old recordings feel strangely like a link to something ancient and mysterious, that's because they actually are.

There is a great beauty in the voices on these recordings, many of which are almost shrill, almost off-key -- unfamiliar to our pampered contemporary ears -- but also perfectly right. There is a mystery in the odd and sometimes fragmentary lyrics, whose once important meaning is now lost.

We can still share the depth of feeling through the music itself, sometimes so strongly that your heart leaps as though you'd been kicked from inside. But, as it says in the booklet of notes, while we can share in the emotions that impelled someone to sing about The Coo Coo Bird in the first place, we'll never know why it was important to live on a mountainside in order to see Willie go by.

Perhaps the true power of this Anthology is that every recording is genuine in a way that is no longer possible. I recommend it.

The Most Relaxing Jazz Guitar Music in the Universe
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The Most Relaxing Jazz Guitar Music in the Universe
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Denon Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009JPVEC
Release Date: 2005-06-14

Tracks:

Listen to the Dawn -- Kenny Burrell
Samba de Orpheus -- Grant Green
Last Night When We Were Young -- Sal Salvador & Mundell Lowe
Over the Rainbow -- Kenny Burrell
All Blues -- Jimmy Ponder
In the Meantime -- Kenny Barron featuring Ted Dunbar
Road Song -- Pat Martino
Homage to Charlie Christian -- Charlie Byrd
I Can't Get Started -- Jack McDuff featuring John Hart
Sophisticated Lady -- Larry Coryell
Dreamsville -- Pat Martino
'Round Midnight -- Larry Coryell
You Don't Know What Love Is -- Pat Martino
Tenderly -- Kenny Burrell
'Deed I Do -- Red Norvo featuring Tal Farlow
One for Tubby -- Herbie Mann featuring Joe Puma
You Are Too Beautiful -- Jimmy Ponder
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square -- Sal Salvador & Mundell Lowe
Keepin' The Faith -- Steve Laury
Visit -- Pat Martino
Motherless Child -- Grant Green
Angel Eyes -- Andy Bey featuring Paul Meyers

Tracks:

'Round Midnight -- Larry Coryell
You Don't Know What Love Is -- Pat Martino
Tenderly -- Kenny Burrell
'Deed I Do -- Red Norvo featuring Tal Farlow
One for Tubby -- Herbie Mann featuring Joe Puma
You Are Too Beautiful -- Jimmy Ponder
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square -- Sal Salvador & Mundell Lowe
Keepin' The Faith -- Steve Laury
Visit -- Pat Martino
Motherless Child -- Grant Green
Angel Eyes -- Andy Bey featuring Paul Meyers

Customer Reviews:

What was this guy thinking?.......2006-09-02

Imagine coming home stressed out and wound up and needing to kick back with some mellow, fat guitar and your favorite libation. If you're searching the universe, or even this solar system for that matter, for relaxing jazz guitar music... well, this isn't it. Some fine musicians, no doubt and some good cuts, but the guy who named this cd must have lost track of the vallium he had just injested. What was this guy thinking? Want to relax? Try "Joe Pass in Hamburg" on ACT music, 1997. NOW you can relax, and you didn't even have to leave the planet.

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Great Jazz Guitar

Mel Bay John Pisano's Guitar Night
John Pisano
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Records
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Tracks:

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Tracks:

'Round Midnight
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Autumn Leaves
All Of You
I Thought About You
Minor 6th Sense
Footprints
Wee

Customer Reviews:

Great Jazz Guitar.......2007-07-10

This album was recorded over the course of a long standing tradition in the San Fernando Valley known as "Guitar Night" which is hosted by one of the greatest jazz guitarists around, John Pisano. This double cd is a great collection of jazz guitar music. If you are a true jazz fan or a guitar fan in general, you need this. So many legends are included like George Van Eps, Ted Greene, Herb Ellis, John Pisano (appears on nearly all of the tracks), and Joe Diorio as well as lesser known players like Barry Zweig, Peter Bernstein, etc. If you are thinking about buying this but are not sure, let me also say that included is a solo version of Ted Greene playing "When Sunny Gets Blue". If you are a Ted Greene fan, this should be enough for you, as he only recorded one album (in 1977) in his lifetime which included only eight songs. This shows him 23 years later performing live in front of a completely adoring audience. There is also a solo of "I'll Never Be The Same" by George Van Eps and a solo "Round Midnight" by Joe Diorio as well as many other extended jams featuring the legendary comping of John Pisano. Herb Ellis sounds great as always, also. This is such a great piece of jazz history.

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Love it
Etta Jones ....a pleasure to listen to!
And don't forget the name.
A jewel for your collection.
12 years and counting

Don't Go to Strangers
Etta Jones
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Tracks:

Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Don't Go To Strangers
I Love Paris
Fine And Mellow
Where Or When
If I Had You
On The Street Where You Live
Something To Remember You By
Bye Bye Blackbird
All The Way

Customer Reviews:

Love it.......2005-02-03

I ordered it from one of Amazon's "So you'd like to hear some great jazz vocals" -type lists, and I'm glad I did! I too, hear Billie and others in her voice, but Etta has her own style and it is a goodie. I find myself wondering how many pop singers of the 70's have been influenced by her, since I am positive I hear Etta in more than one voice from this era! Very good music, talented band and skillful singer, good arrangements. Can't wait to try my next Etta Jones album!

Etta Jones ....a pleasure to listen to!.......2004-03-04

My favorite pick from this CD is Etta's copy of "FINE AND MELLOW". I 've heard this song perform by so many female Jazz singers, but Etta's is the Best. Listening to her, one can hear the influences of such singers such as Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. This CD is a "must have" for those who enjoy listening to Jazz Vocals.

And don't forget the name........2001-02-01

I rarely meet people familiar with Etta Jones. And often those who say they know her work are really thinking of Etta James (a fine singer in her own right, but lacking that signature Billie Holiday timbre and phrasing that belong only to Etta). What distinguishes Etta from Lady Day is the former's perpetually gregarious, good-humored spirit that invites us to have fun with her rather than share her life experiences. That quality was in abundant evidence when I caught her recently at Chicago's Jazz Showcase. Unfortunately, the sound system was unworthy of her, producing an unwanted metallic edge. But I solved the problem by playing this album when I got home. [Postscript: I like this CD so much, I purchased the RVG 2006 remastered edition (pink cover). To my ears, the "hotter" mix, "punched-up" sound, and "enhanced" reverb of the new edition make this earlier edition (yellow cover) the better bet. Regardless, take whatever you can get.]

A jewel for your collection........2000-10-08

Sit back, turn up the volume, unplug the phone and prepare to be impressed. Jones captures the best aspects of Billie Holiday and Nancy Wilson, but she's really more than either because of her unique phrasing and interpretation, plus a great voice. She puts her mark on every song she sings. "On the Street Where You Live" may not sound right at first, but Etta's version soon becomes the only way you want to hear this standard. Not only are you going to need a screwdriver to get this CD out of the player, but you might as well buy two copies now because your friends will be asking. I've bought 4 already, 3 gift copies. A great jazz recording, a great jazz artist, your money is well spent on this one.

12 years and counting.......2000-04-30

I've been listening to this album for 12 years -- starting when it was an LP in my parents' collection and I was in middle school -- and bought it at least twice for myself (it was stolen once) on CD. There's no saying in words what Etta Jones' voice does with music, but it's a good thing: earthy, smooth, mellifluous, her voice pours out of her like wine, intoxicating and enchanting.

Jones glides through moods and modes, speaks the languages of merry mischief ("It Could Happen to You", "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," ""I Love Paris") and haunted lovesickness ( in the eternally stunning title track, "Don't Go to Strangers," Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow," "Something to Remember You By") with equal fluency --and sometimes in the same song ("Bye, Bye Blackbird").

Tracks:

There Is No Greater Love
If You Could See Me Now
On Green Dolphin Street
Summertime
Quiet And Blue
All Blues
I Fall In Love To Easily
All The Things You Are
My Foolish Heart

Tracks:

Vision
Blues In My Case
My Funny Valentine
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Beautiful Love
Two Lonely People
There Will Never Be Another You
Riot-Chorus

Customer Reviews:

Unbelievable.......2006-12-27

Acording to the book "one long tune" very fev of lennys albums vere Lenny in good form. Often he had not the nervs to play in studio, or he was on drugs.This was the case on Five O'Clock Bells/Mo' Breau and Cabin Fever, although these albums are greate. But on this album, Lenny is at his very best.
Lennys goal was to play the guitar like the piano, and Bill Evans was his favorit piano player. He worked on this for 20 years. He sure made it.'
Dave Young knew and respethed Lenny and his music, and the result is marvelus.
On this album Lenny plays just the way he feels like, totally free.
The thing with his playing that make me call it unbelivable, is his harmonich, the way he plays like a piano player, and he does it totally spontanius. If You Could See Me Now, My Foolish Heart, I Fall In Love To Easily, Two Lonely People, are just increddible.
This is the best electric guitarwork I have ever heard, and the more you lissen, the more you hear.
The sound is greate and the interplay vith Dave Young is unncanny.

Two of the Best at Their Best.......2005-01-27

What a beautiful set of immaculate improvisations! God, the sound is so good! Usually upright bass is recorded live so that it brings out all the finger noise. Not so here. So clean, so sweet.

If you are not familiar with Lenny Breau, what a treat these 2 CD's can be for you. Here using a great sounding custom 7 string guitar with a high 'A' string! Considered by the best of the jazz and country worlds to be the best living guitarist in his lifetime, he lives up to his reputation here. I have everything I can get that Lenny did, and this is my favorite alongside "The Complete Livingroom Tapes." He had incredible technique and prowess, truly killer chops. On this recording he has deepened and grown beyond anything purely physical or technical about music on a guitar. He comunicates with heartfelt passion and soul, so fully, so clearly, so cleanly, and so...transcendently. It's hard to believe how beautiful this music is. God, I love it! Please invite Lenny to live on in your life and ears, too.

Definitive Jazz Guitar.......2002-06-10

If you are looking for incredibley smooth and innovative jazz guitar this is the one. Lenny's fingerstyle technic gave him the ability to take jazz and pop standards way beyond the 'flat picking' style of playing, very much like listening to a jazz pianist. Along with long time associate Dave Young on acoustic bass this music presents an interplay between guitar and bass that is rarley heard. A 'must have' for Lenny Breau fans and jazz fans in general.

It doesn't get any better than this..........2001-10-23

To any fan of jazz and anyone who plays guitar in general, this album is a must have. Breau's playing on great standards is just unbelievable and there is much to be learned from his style. A highly under rated player who deserves more credit. Regardless, he burns on this cd and it should be owned by all.

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An excellent buy!

The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
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Customer Reviews:

An excellent buy!.......1998-12-14

Typical of Byrd's work, marvellous

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SO MUCH WONDERFUL MUSIC

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Choro No.1 - Orquesta Nova/Carlos Franzetti
Antiphon: Like As A Heart Psalms and Spiritual Songs - Westminster Chor/Joseph Flummerfelt

Customer Reviews:

SO MUCH WONDERFUL MUSIC.......2004-08-09

Top notch performers, diverse musical genres,
expertly engineered recordings...a definate
must buy!!

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Mimi Fox Ceases to Excel in her Craft
Perfect Jazz Guitar
Gret Disc for Those Who are New to Jazz Guitar Recordings
Smokin' jazz guitar

Perpetually Hip
Mimi Fox
Manufacturer: Favored Nations
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EHRYGM
Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

Perpetually Hip
The Song Is You
But Beautiful
Saluting The Groove
Night And Day
While Bangkok Sleeps
So Many Stars

Tracks:

Caravan
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Customer Reviews:

Mimi Fox Ceases to Excel in her Craft.......2006-05-12

I have the album, "She's The Woman." I like it a lot, but I think this is definetly the album where she finds her sound. The guitar and her take the listener on a ride that fortuanetly last longer than most because of the two cd set. It is definetly a must buy for any jazz guitar fans.
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Perfect Jazz Guitar.......2006-04-12

Really enjoying this CD, I enjoyed Mimi;s last album, but this is something different with the two discs, I think I prefer the solo disc slightly, but both are amazing when it comes to jazz guitar playing, Mimi is one of the best around. I would recommend this to any jazz or music fans who love incredible guitar playing. Good stuff!

Gret Disc for Those Who are New to Jazz Guitar Recordings.......2006-04-05

I was very impressed by Mimi's guitar playing. The solo disc is amazing! I think this would make a great CD package for those looking to discover Jazz guitar. If you are a fan of such artists as Joe Pass and Charlie Hunter, this is a must!!!!!!!

Smokin' jazz guitar.......2006-04-05

Perpetually Hip is the latest from guitarist Mimi Fox. Fans of great jazz guitar won't be dissapointed. Disk one features Mimi with a killer rhythm section and disk two features Mimi playing solo guitar, ala Joe Pass.
Great stuff!

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George, Duke, Nat, and the Croz
His best in years

Impressions in Blue
Monty Alexander Trio
Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009NH8S
Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

Blue Rhapsody
En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
Come Sunday/David Danced
Creole Love Call
Accompong
Pointe-A-Pitre
Elevthra
Jumpin' At Capitol
It's Only A Paper Moon
Body And Soul
I'm An Old Cowhand

Customer Reviews:

George, Duke, Nat, and the Croz.......2003-08-31

In a way, this album is "My America, Part 2," like Monty's release of a year ago a celebration of the rich diversity and luminous spirit of American popular music--except this time the emphasis is on acoustic piano and straightahead swinging jazz. In reinventing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" Monty wisely eschews the main theme and exploits the "blues" possibilities of the minor motifs. Both of the Ellington songs receive refreshing, revelatory face lifts--"Come Sunday" as a bright and light morning awakener and "Creole Love Song" as a simmering, explosive blues. Three tunes in succession demonstrate why Nat King Cole was once ranked as a piano player alongside Tatum and Wilson. And finally what more fitting way to close out this session than a Mercer tune made famous by the singer whose centenary is being celebrated during 2003?

In a musical climate of whims, fads, simulations and deceptions, it's nice to be reminded once again that you can always count on Monty Alexander.

His best in years.......2003-07-24

I've always wanted to like Monty Alexander more than I have. The Jamaican-born pianist with the impeccable taste, deft touch, and soft island ways has seldom seemed to find the right context to display his monster chops and Caribbean jazz sensibility.

Well, in this year of outstanding jazz releases, he's found it, and in spades. A kind of tour through popular jazz styles, Impressions in Blue succeeds because the leader has such a thorough knowledge of the various jazz sub-genres that he's able to find just the right approach to transform each from the mundane into the sublime. A deep knowledge of and love for the blues also helps a lot.

Divided into four parts with a tongue-in-cheek coda, "I'm and Old Cowhand," Impressions opens with two classical pieces: "Blue Rhapsody," a reworking of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (aka, the United Airlines theme), and the Rodrigo piece, "En Aranjues con tu Amor." These, for me, work least well, partly because they're too straightforward. But they're still beautifully and loving rendered.

Next come a pair of Ellington tunes, "Come Sunday/David Danced" and "Creole Love Call." Alexander has a real feel for the Duke's music, he and finds the exact right approach to "Come Sunday"--deft, danceable, and s(w)inging, with just a touch of blues in the background, especially in the arco bass opening. With "Creole Love Call," were in the very heart of the blues. Taken at a very leisurely pace, drenched in melancholy, Alexander brilliantly plumbs its heartbreak.

Which brings us to the heart of the matter--three tunes under the heading Where the Trade Winds Blow. As great an interpreter of Duke as Alexander is, this middle passage is where he really shines. "Accompong," with its tricky rhythmic shifts, swinging vibe, and true jazz sensibility shows why Alexander is perhaps the premier interpreter of Caribbean jazz on the scene today. With "Pointe-A-Pitre" we're in the heart of the tropics. An impossibly catchy Calypso, with subtle blues underpinnings, this pieces just wafts along like a soft breeze through coconut palms. "Eleuthra," named for an island in the Bahamas, continues the Caribbean vibe. With these three numbers, the ever-present blues are successfully chased into the background. It would be a real treat to hear this band do an entire disc of this mesmerizing island jazz.

Things change gears again with King Cole Reflections, three tunes dedicated to the late, great Nat "King" Cole, whom the headliner recalls being blown away by when he heard him in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, when he was 12. The trio changes slightly to match Cole's original outfit, with the great John Pizzarelli sitting in on electric guitar replacing Mark Taylor on drums. This section--with a deep swing groove, lots of quotes from other tunes, and drenched in the blues--is pure fun. Pizzarelli, a player who absolutely understands the genius of swing, was an inspired choice for the guitar chair, comping effortlessly and throwing off inspired single-line runs.

Tracks:

Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Don't Go To Strangers
I Love Paris
Fine And Mellow
Where Or When
If I Had You
On The Street Where You Live
Something To Remember You By
Bye Bye Blackbird
All The Way

Customer Reviews:

Still golden.......2007-02-20

Rather than the yellowish or golden cover of the previous edition, this one is magenta (?), and the audio has been somewhat "enhanced" for the sake of present-day tastes. Otherwise, there's no difference between the 1991 release (which is still in print) and this 2006 RVG remaster--which is a good thing, since where matters of perfection are concerned, no improvements should be necessary. In fact, if this one isn't in your top five female jazz recordings of all time, you may need to reconsider your desert-island necessities.

Frankly, I was hoping Rudy might be able to lighten up just slightly on the reverb for this edition, but no such luck. Instead, the mastering is predictable (more bass to suit present-day preferences) and appears to have been subjected to some curious tampering of the sound of the drums, causing the hi-hat and snare to be crisp and clear on some choruses and all but inaudible on others. I don't recall such an in-and-out problem with the drums on the previous issue of the date. Whichever edition you pick up, you can't go wrong. This recording, the most commercially successful release by the underrated vocalist, is as essential to any fan of female jazz singers as it is to those who already have some of Etta's other work.

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