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Robert R. Calder
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[23.Jan.08] :. The best gypsy swing is full of local accents, with a strong indentity, cosmopolitan and not monotonous. It is rare, and it is here.
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[7.Jan.08] :. Corey Harris sings and plays Rasta Reggae hymns while offering spiritual assurance and giving musical insight.
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[3.Jan.08] :. Very energetic quintet date led by the young veteran European-exiled sometime Horace Silver and Oscar Peterson drummer. Stirring.
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[19.Dec.07] :. Broad mood music for a southern joint, to be danced or swooned to, over the talk and drink.
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[18.Dec.07] :. An inspired gig by the late celebrated genius of New Orleans piano.
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[28.Sep.07] :. A real master cut off in his prime, an individual tenor saxophonist mature beyond his years and in an ideal quartet.
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[4.Jun.07] :. Eleven points for charm; ace pre-blues, street-singing songster-guitarist -- gentle, comic, recorded in 1960 at age 85, a miracle!
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[25.May.07] :. Unique! A major discovery: Barrelhouse blues piano like nobody does now.
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[19.Dec.06] :. Serious attempt at the best that can be done. Dizzy Gillespie would certainly have been very proud of some of this.
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[17.Nov.06] :. Force of music slightly disguises this set's 85th Birthday element. It's not about how long Chico Hamilton's been here, but what he does and why he's here!
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[17.Oct.06] :. The jazzman Frank Melrose was possibly murdered by the mob. His cornet partner Pete Daily fled to Canada after testifying at the inquest. In 1940, they'd recorded demo discs of their dream band, playing Chicago jazz. 66 years passed...
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[9.Aug.06] :. Modern mainstream jazz at its broadest and deepest, African currents, After Hours, Amen!
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[31.Jul.06] :. High-class hard bop such as can happily be found nowadays, but Caine's an exceptional trumpeter, hot but also a ballad master.
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[19.Jul.06] :. Jazz guitarist Biréli Lagrène steps onto a Paris stage to perform a set as part of his 2004-2005 world tour, and -- Wow!
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[20.Apr.06] :. This is the rare guitar CD that displays both virtuosity and a sense of history and style, performed with class and substance.
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[7.Oct.05] :. DG can also mean Deo gratias, and this, by the grace of God, is Dizzy Gillespie in terrific trumpet form when not bringing together his verbal reflections on jazz, its African cultural roots, and continuities across political boundaries and stormy, oily seas.
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[27.May.05] :. Debashish no doubt has the fingers for a lot of things.
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