Review: The landmark first album by Dom Salvador released in 1969. Exemplary of Salvador's characteristic blend of Brazilian rhythms and American jazz influences, the album flaunts a mix of samba, bossa nova and hard bop, highlighting Salvador's innovative approach and technical prowess. A bright and redolent sound wafts from the likes of 'Cantinflas' and 'O Rio', which build and burgeon as danceable motifs that would work equally as well for montage or opening sequences in film. Elsewhere, the more freeform rhapsodies like 'Pais Tropical' hear Salvador's piano in full sway.
Review: 'Great Moments With Pharoah Sanders' is a compilation album spanning the best of Pharoah Sanders' work between the period 1983-1990, when the legendary spiritual jazz musician enjoyed the fallout of some of his best work. Despite his struggles to find quality work as a musician despite his high standing by that time, Sanders composed many great works in the period, such as 'Africa', 'Naima' and 'You've Got To Have Freedom' - all of which feature here.
Review: Pharoah Sanders, the legendary saxophonist known for his spiritual jazz and drummer Norman Connors, another key figure in the genre, deliver a blistering live performance at 1978's Montreux Jazz Festival set. The duo, both with decades of experience shaping the sound of free jazz, blend complex rhythms with expansive melodies, weaving through tracks like 'Babylon' and 'Casino Latino.' Sanders' saxophone improvisations glide between tension and release, while Connors' drumming provides a solid yet dynamic foundation. This recording encapsulates their mastery of blending the spiritual with the free, two jazz icons at the height of their craft, delivering a performance that is at once urgent and transcendental.
Review: Woody Shaw was one of the more influential jazz musicians of his time. This album was recorded in 1985 and finds him in full flow with his Tone Jansa Quartet. The American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, and band leader very much shows off his improvisational skills on flugelhorn and trumpet while his sidemen Renato Chico on piano, Peter Herbert on bass, Dragan Gajic on drums and Tone Jansa on tenor sax do not disappoint either. This is the first time the album has been reissued since its original release and comes in limited quantities.
Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week) (1:56)
A Fine Romance (2:13)
I've Got You Under My Skin (3:33)
Bewitched (3:01)
Swinging On A Star (2:55)
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (with Count Basie) (2:26)
It Was A Very Good Year (4:27)
That's Life (3:10)
Strangers In The Night (2:37)
All Or Nothing At All (4:00)
Somethin' Stupid (with Nancy Sinatra) (2:41)
Sunny (feat Duke Ellington) (4:13)
The Girl From Ipanema (with Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:15)
Both Sides Now (2:56)
My Way (4:39)
For A While (3:09)
Send In The Clowns (4:13)
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (2:53)
Theme From New York, New York (3:28)
It Had To Be You (3:57)
LA Is My Lady (with Quincy Jones) (3:15)
Mack The Knife (with Quincy Jones) (4:54)
Review: On this new collectors' edition from Music On Vinyl, jazz and swing vocalist Frank Sinatra is honoured with glittering encomium, with a fine ABCD-side double vinyl cycling through the best breadth of his long discography. Recognised by the label as setting the standard for jazz vocalists ever since, Sinatra's influence is heard loud and wide today, in the laryngeal feats of every iterative pop cultural figure to take after him - from Michael Buble to Robbie Williams. The 31 recordings on Collected include not just his most famous songs, but also delves into some of his best album tracks and collaborations with Count Basie, Quincy Jones and his daughter Nancy, all showcasing the versatile artist Sinatra was.
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