Category: Music Reviews
Tab Benoit – “The Sea Saint Sessions
February 4, 2005
Tab Benoit – “The Sea Saint Sessions“ [Telarc Blues CD-83573] Roots and Blues Gumbo February 2005 Take me down to the small town of Houma, Louisiana, to the juke joints and Cajun swamp pop [Read More]
Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 57, Appassionata, Op. 26, Funeral March; Sviatoslav Richter, Piano
January 25, 2005
Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 57, Appassionata, Op. 26, Funeral March; Sviatoslav Richter, Piano [JVC JM-XR24017] January 2005 The Richter one meets in Bruno Monsaingeon’s ponderous and intense film, Richter, the Enigma, is a man facing—as all who live [Read More]
Buddy Rich – Harry “Sweets” Edison
November 29, 2004
Buddy Rich – Harry “Sweets” Edison [Verve B0000572-02] Buddy and Sweets Craig “Craigy- G” Fitzpatrick November 2004 Sweet and Sour My first experience with Bernard “Buddy” Rich was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Like [Read More]
Alison Brown Quartet- “Replay”
November 29, 2004
Alison Brown Quartet- “Replay” [Compass Records 743212] Swinging Into Fall Nelson Brill November 2004 “When you want genuine music – music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your [Read More]
Orna – The Very Thought Of You
November 29, 2004
Orna – The Very Thought Of You [A440 MusicGroup] Craig “Craigy-G” Fitzpatrick November2004 Thinking of you Every so often an alternate median will come along to shake up the stability within the record industry. [Read More]
TWO FROM CUBA WITH LOVE: CANDIDO & GRACIELA-INOLVIDABLE
October 13, 2004
TWO FROM CUBA WITH LOVE:CANDIDO & GRACIELA-INOLVIDABLE [CHESKY JD 249]ORLANDO CACHAITO LOPEZ [WORLD CIRCUIT 79630-2] Nelson Brill October 2004 There is nothing like good music to break down the artificial borders of this planet. With American [Read More]
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 “Organ”, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra
September 28, 2004
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 “Organ”, Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra [Telarc hybrid SACD-60634] Russell Lichter September 2004 Once again one of Telarc’s superb hybrid SACDs, but this one is rather special. It is special because it [Read More]
Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3, Handel Variations; Anton Kuerti, Piano
August 25, 2004
Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3, Handel Variations; Anton Kuerti, Piano [ProPiano PPR224512] Russell Lichter August 2004 I’m sitting here shaking my head, wondering how in blazes I can begin to talk about Brahms’s [Read More]
Curtis Fuller – BLUES-ette
August 24, 2004
Curtis Fuller – BLUES-ette [Savoy Jazz SVY 17186] Craig “Craigy- G” Fitzpatrick August 2004 Cool Blues After World War II ended a new style of jazz emerged called “bebop”. This highly technically oriented sound [Read More]
Ray Brown Trio – Summer Wind: Live at the Loa
August 11, 2004
Ray Brown Trio – Summer Wind: Live at the Loa[Concord Jazz CCD-4426] Craig Fitzpatrick June 2004 Those summer winds are blowing in once again. During a recent jaunt to Chicago to visit staffers Dave Thomas [Read More]
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