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Editor's Picks (see more)
CALEB COLLINS: Christmas
Christmas ain’t just about looking forward to presents under the tree. Half the magic of the holiday season is in looking back to the past, too. And Caleb Collins has captured that warm, glowing nostalgia on this fine album that puts a contemporary spin on the orchestral Jazz crooner tradition popularized by Sinatra and Nat King Cole. If you enjoy Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble then you’ll love Caleb Collins.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PAUSELAND: Palindrome
For those that prefer their Jazz tinged with autumnal nostalgia, Denmark’s Pauseland has delivered the goods. This eerie chamber-Jazz ensemble uses words like “effortless,” “interwoven,” “intimacy,” and “transparency” to describe its music and they are 100% accurate. Simultaneously controlled and loose, this band’s beautifully subtle-but-emotive sound truly is “like a quiet conversation.” Breathy horns play lonely lines over drifting guitar arpeggios. At times, the warm tones of tenor sax and flugelhorn can blend into one voice, one movement, one thought, and then suddenly separate into their own melodic dances, chasing each other playfully in the same way that Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter did on albums like Nefertiti. The drums and bass propel the pieces forward with a mysterious, wandering arrhythmic tension. This unique approach doesn’t frame or ground the music in a traditional sense. Rather, it paints the melodies (inside and outside the lines) with impressionistic dashes of simple, yet vivid color to give the music flight. These cats have mastered an urban methodology for creating reminiscences of pastoral landscapes. But they’re not just striving to dwell in the domain of yesteryear, either. The round and liquid guitar tones, like those of Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, or Marc Ribot, sound classic, modern, and timeless all in one touch. And occasionally Pauseland will employ looping devices to weave lush, ambient tapestries that hang on a melodic line in the background, blowing to and fro, haunting the distances. Sophisticated and militantly understated, “Palindrome” is an expressive album devoid of flashiness and tasty as hell.
CD price: $12.97
MELVA HOUSTON AND BAND: Black Coffee
Internationally-known and loved jazz singer, Melva Houston truly dazzles on Black Coffee, transfixing her listeners with her smokin’ voice, perfectly suited for bluesy R&B and soul. Coloring these jazzy numbers with some real no-nonsense attitude and with a powerhouse combo backing her up, this disc ranges from a variety of sauntering ballads to swinging shakers. Having recorded with R&B greats such as Isaace Hayes, Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas and Wilson Pickett at the fresh age of 16, Houston again reminds her fans why she’s such a force to be reckoned with. Without a doubt, this is the jazz pick of the month.
CD price: $16.95
LENI STERN: Africa
After the moving, “teaser” 5-song EP, Alu Maye, whetting our appetite for Leni’s distinct singer/songwriter style imbedded with the sounds and atmosphere of Mali, this full-length, 13-track project, Africa, beautifully builds upon the momentum she ignited. With songs that speak to, express and reflect the issues affecting Mali, from a deep regard for life-giving, precious water to the plight of child soldiers, this project, two years in the making, embodies not just the rich, harmonic and percussive sounds of the region but its spirit, its people, its beauty, its pace of life, serving as a kind of audio documentary. Recorded at Salif Keita’s Bamako Studios, set for an October 30th release but now available digitally, this is one of the most respectable and moving collaborations between musical styles, instruments, ideas and cultures; Stern is the female answer to Markus James.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JIMMY BRUNO: Maplewood Avenue
With charming discourse between Tony Miceli on vibraphone and Jeff Pedras on bass, the elegant but gigantic sound of Jimmy Bruno’s guitar is right in line with the integrity of his previous work. With an exquisitely intimate, close-up sound captured in his home recording studio, Maplewood Avenue features both Bruno’s gift for shaping and sculpting the subtleties, the most fragile of nuances, as well as his incendiary ability to sizzle and set a phrase in breathless motion. Whether he’s channeling the contemplative or the combustive, one of the most signature qualities of this disc is his commitment to make every note sing and blossom in the connected context of the larger phrase. In other words, these aren’t just a bunch of notes assembled together in a groovy manner; Bruno sees and recreates all the levels of musicality, the note level, the phrase level and the way every detail makes or breaks the song as a whole. It’s not every day that one finds a musician who can nurture and cultivate the finer details (“does this phrase turn up or down?” “does the phrase point to this note or that note?”) while also giving equal attention to the conversation between instruments, the larger picture that emanates from the bottom up. Jimmy is this sort of musician. Extending from that sincerity, his guitar is an extension of his mind, body, heart and wit. Finally, although the album surely showcases his talent, not just in his chops but in his thoughtful musicality, Jimmy gives ample time to both Miceli and Pedras to take the floor and demonstrate their own prowess and noteworthy musicianship. Any fan of jazz guitar should not miss this release
Top Sellers (see more)
THE BLANKS: Riding The Wave
A "Barber-NOT Quartet," as seen on NBC's "Scrubs" in the role of Ted's Band, this quirky foursome's debut record features strictly four-part a cappella arrangements in an eclectic mix of styles, talking toys and hidden mic sketches from the "Scrub
CD price: $14.97
JACO PASTORIUS: Portrait of Jaco - The Early Years
This critically acclaimed boxed audio biography brings an 80-page color booklet and over 2 1/2 hrs of never-before-heard recordings of Jaco from 1968 up through his glory years. Hear his earliest bands, unheard originals, and very beginnings as a soloist
CD price: $34.95
DEVIL DOLL: Queen of Pain
sex and sorrow. 40's style torch jazz meets punk rock. angry and sexy.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
INGA SWEARINGEN: Learning How To Fly
Inga revives the art of scat-singing, imbuing these jazz standards with a rare vitality
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
MAUDE MAGGART: With Sweet Despair
The heartbreaking voice of Maude Maggart breathes new life into classic and contemporary American standards. She is accompanied by piano and strings.
CD price: $18.00
MAUDE MAGGART: Look For The Silver Lining
This debut CD of Maude Maggart's is a collection of songs written in the 1920's, beautifully interpreted through Miss Maggart's haunting and ethereal voice.
CD price: $18.00
EL GRUPO: Live
High Energy Jazz Rock Fusion Recorded Live and featuring Steve Lukather
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CHANDRA CURRELLEY: Love Songs
Chandra Currelley presents Urban,Spiritual,Jazz, music that quenches the spiritual appetite through improvisational vocal energy, reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald and Anita Baker. From the former lead singer of the S.O.S. Band.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PROJECT: Winter in June
A dynamic ensemble defining a new music genre by combining classical, jazz, and popular music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
