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Nostalgia 77: The Garden

[6.Apr.05] :. A solid elaboration on 2004's Songs for My Funeral, this album has the classic sound of The Horace Silver Quintet -- with some The White Stripes and Mantronix thrown in for good measure.

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Buck 65: This Right Here Is Buck 65

[14.Jan.05] :. More than bringing together backpacker beats and Woody Guthrie covers, Buck 65 is reading a whole tradition of American story-telling through the prism of hip-hop.

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GB: Soundtrack for Sunrise

[14.Jan.05] :. GB has the talent to surpass the more tired mannerisms of nu-jazz and broken beat. Unfortunately, he has to go through them first.

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Massive Attack: Danny the Dog: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

[12.Jan.05] :. Blue Lines was said to be the soundtrack for a generation of British youth. After that, the soundtrack for this Luc Besson movie is a bit of disappointment -- albeit one studded with gems.

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Gabriela Anders: Last Tango in Rio

[16.Dec.04] :. The marketing strategy for the current crop of popular jazz media darlings -- Diana Krall, Peter Cincotti, Jamie Cullum -- involves deluging them with comparisons to jazz greats of decades...

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