Word: rhino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed the illegal commerce, but environmentalists have gathered evidence to the contrary. Now everyone who is worried about wildlife focuses on one question: Will the nations of CITES follow...
Charles Mingus's Thirteen Pictures, a two-CD set, part of an ongoing Rhino Presents The Atlantic Jazz Gallery series, tries to provide a retrospective of Mingus's whole career, without releasing all of something...
...Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding, Rhino tries to achieve a balance between the all-encompassing Ornette set and the overviewish Mingus set; instead of giving you all of Otis, they'll give you all you could ever want...
What's really striking about this collection is the live material on the last disk. This collection has none of the problems of consistency that plague the plethora of live Otis albums currently available. Remastered and cleaned up, Rhino includes some of the best Otis tracks recorded (a soul-wrenching "Try A Little Tenderness", for one) as well as some great tracks recorded at audibly small venues--on the classic "These Arms of Mine," women can be heard repeatedly offering Otis their arms for comfort...
...Rhino is planning to continue re-releasing old Atlantic catalogs. If they sustain the intelligence and care they did in both the selection and composition of these three sets, future releases should prove to be as sure a bet as these three...