Incognito’s third album nods to the influences that ground their jazz-funk-and-soul jams. The 11-member band adds a Latin feel to a snazzy cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing,” while “Magnetic Ocean” has a Weather Report-in-ballad-mode vibe. “Change” combines Maysa Leak’s Chaka Khan-like power with sweeping Soul II Soul-ish strings, and “Need to Know” gives …
Beneath the Surface finds original lead singer Maysa Leak returning to the Incognito fold. Coincidentally or not, the record finds the group moving deeply into smooth, laidback, jazzy soul. It’s a seductive sound and the group executes it well, even though there ironically isn’t that much substance beneath the surface.
The songs are consistently stronger and more melodic, …
Ascenseur Pour L’Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold): Original Soundtrack
Unavailable in the U.S.! Miles Davis’ moody, evocative music for the Louis Malle movie (translation: The Lift to the Scaffold) comes in two different forms on this reissue. There is a chronological sketch pad of tracks which didn’t appear in the original release, or appeared in altered form, and tracks 16-26, which comprise the body of the original …
Antonio Carlos Jobim–the Brazilian composer, arranger, singer, and pianist and one of the creators of bossa nova–left an extraordinary legacy when he died of heart failure in 1994 in New York at age 67. Many of his songs–including “The Girl from Ipanema,” “Chega de Saudade” (“No More Blues”), “Samba de Uma Nota So” (“One-Note Samba”), “Corcovado” (“Quiet Nights”), …
(2008/UNIVERSAL) 59 tracks, feat. the years 1924-68. Set comes withMedium 1CopenhagenShanghai ShuffleStomp Off, Let’s GoDrop That SackMelancholyI’m Goin’Huntin’I’m In The Mood For LoveOn Treasure IslandThanks A MillionEv’ntideDippermouth BluesSwing That MusicPennies From HeavenOn The Sunny Side Of The StreetOnce In A WhileIn The Shade Of The Old Apple TreeJubileeWhen The Saints Go Marching InShadrackAin’t Misbehavin’Jeepers CreepersRockin’ChairWest End BluesSavoy BluesHear …
For some of guitarist John Scofield’s fans, his best albums date come from the 1980s: Electric Outlet and Still Warm. Recorded before his fusion ascendancy with drummer Dennis Chambers and bassist Gary Grainger, these albums are primal and funky, yet also allude to the eerie tonal palettes of Scofield’s onetime employer Miles Davis during the trumpeter’s 1970s electric …
In his CD Works For Me, guitarist John Scofield returns to the jazz heartland, focusing on straight-ahead, four-to-the-bar swing in the company of Kenny Garrett, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Billy Higgins–all masters of their respective trades. Scofield, one of the most distinctive and influential jazz guitarists since John McLaughlin, has always had a penchant for word-play titles …
The best music is often the hardest to classify, and so it is with Ben Neill’s latest CD, Goldbug. It might be acid jazz, or ambient, or new age, or techno–often, it’s two or three at once. But then, innovation is Neill’s forte; that trumpet you hear on Goldbug is an instrument of his own invention that combines …