Drummer Guillermo E. Brown burst onto the progressive jazz circuit via his performances and recordings with forward-thinking saxophonists David S. Ware and Rob Reddy amid various projects and sessions. His first solo ...
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The revived 2007 edition of the Ultramagnetic MC's finds Tim Dog gone and some new members, and as far as Kool Keith, he's excited and inspired for the most part. There are some grand Keith moments scattered about, an...
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The joke is, of course, that Greatest Hits, Vol. 16 is not the Donnas' 16th collection of hits, nor is the album even a collection of hits. Instead, it's a hodgepodge of new songs, alternate versions, B-sides, and liv...
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In the 1990s, David Gould quietly became one of the most valuable players in American reggae while holding down the bass chair for the mighty John Brown's Body. Since then he has been doing something a bit more intere...
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Wergo's reissues of the legendary Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series have been a big hit with fans of contemporary music around the world. Each set is a treasure-trove of works by a wide range of composers, perform...
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Often cited as the first true death metal record ever released (Florida's Death had been around just as long but would only make their vinyl debut a few years later), Possessed's Seven Churches took thrash metal's int...
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Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence...
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Based on its crisp, thoughtful, and engaging songwriting alone, veteran singer/songwriter Maia Sharp's fourth solo album is a triumph featuring the kind of melodic grace and colorful wit that have characterized the tu...
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The recordings here by Switzerland's Amati Quartet appear to have been compiled from various sources; they date from 1987, 1988, and 1993, and were made in different locations. The two contemporary Swiss compositions ...
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An eagerly awaited release from one of New Yorks most versatile and creative Latin Jazz ensembles! Conceived and produced by jazz guitarist Dave Stryker, Trio Mundo showcases the talents of Puerto Rican-born master pe...
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This Michael Jackson set should really be called the Essential Collection of Michael Jackson After He Left the Jackson 5 and Before He Hooked Up with Producer Quincy Jones. That would be pretty accurate. Here you get ...
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Violinist Michael Rabin is one of many artists whose career was cut tragically short by an early death. Even before he died at the age of 35, Rabin ended his studio recording career in 1959 for unknown reasons and beg...
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The debut album by Helvetia is the sort of album that makes pretentious record reviewers give themselves paper cuts while thumbing through their thesauri looking for multiple synonyms of "trippy." However, while The C...
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Followers of Mississippi Heat have a pretty good idea what to expect when Pierre Lacocque's Chicago-based band comes out with a new album, but that doesn't mean that they know exactly what to expect. Although fans kno...
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Shyheim's age of 14 can be easily recognized in his voice on this, his debut album, but lyrically it's difficult to believe this young rapper is already so skilled. What really makes him different than other young rap...
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There was no 48 Hours soundtrack, so this is the place to come to hear The Boys Are Back in Town -the raucous bar-band classic the Bus Boys play in the film at Vroman's (where, as Eddie Murphy tells Nick Nolte, "the b...
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Above all, Squeeze were a great singles act -- among the finest of the era -- and Singles 45's and Under offers proof of that fact, giving a chronological survey of their biggest hits from their early, pre-breakup per...
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