Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...station courts a "different" kind of listener--the devotees of esoteric classical, jazz and underground rock music...
...nostalgia is entirely the point, with the excellent and witty assistance of veteran Cardigans producer Tore Johannson integrating diverse genre elements and quotations to create the albums deliriously composite and cohesive sound. Good Humor is almost inconceivable: a broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro...
Hyperion Theatre Company - Founding Member; Men's Varsity Golf. Team; 25th Reunion Worker - Class of 1973; Woodbridge Society - International Student Mentor; Fantastick Theatre Company and Mainly Jazz - Producer of "It Takes a Woman...
...film Grace of My Heart. If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak. Bacharach brings out a new directness in Costello's singing and verse, but the millstone is cloying production. These engagingly sinuous tunes deserve better than cheesy keyboards and smooth-jazz guitar licks more suited to a Lionel Richie album...
...There's no such thing as an absolute version anymore," says Bill Laswell, a musician and record producer who proved the point this summer with his remixed album of classic Miles Davis recordings, probably a jazz first. There is also a new version out of the 1958 film Touch of Evil; it is unique for having been re-edited according to the dictates of a 58-page memo written by Orson Welles after the film had been taken away from him by Universal Pictures. Welles, of course, is the patron saint of lost, botched and unfinished works. The reissue, says...