Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After learning Mather House was about to receive a large number of "very competent" jazz musicians, Naddaff says she and her husband decided to hire a non-resident tutor with a background in Jazz...
DiFranco takes another chance--one that works--on Pulse, a sliding, slippery jazz-folk number that stretches on for 14 minutes. On the whole, Little Plastic Castle is a sharp, indulgent, fascinating album, the kind that an artist can probably release only when he or she owns the record company. Let's hope DiFranco never signs with anyone but herself...
...Pure Imagination (Impulse!) jazz pianist Eric Reed takes a sunny stroll down Broadway to where it intersects Memory Lane. Reed, a former member of Wynton Marsalis' septet, is only 27 years old, but his new album could easily have been titled Pure Nostalgia: the songs he covers in this collection of Broadway show tunes are classic numbers, including Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music, 1973), Hello, Young Lovers (The King and I, 1951) and My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess...
...Bulls at Jazz...
...Forms, Roni Size and his Bristol collective Reprazent look to jazz for sonic inspiration. Drum-'n'-bass music can be repetitive and droning, with mixes that last too long and rhythms that lack variation. The songs on New Forms, in contrast, display a jazz combo-like virtuosity, twisting, searching for variations on themes, moving in fresh directions after establishing a tone. Roni Size and Goldie have a lot in common: both of their new albums feature songs called Digital, both employ plenty of guest artists, and New Forms' soulful title track sounds like something from Goldie's debut. The most...