SOUND CHECK.ROYCE CAMPBELL: ``Six by Six: A Jazz Guitar The term jazz guitar refers to several aspects of the guitar as it is used in jazz and jazz fusion music. The term may refer to a type of guitar or to the variety of jazz playing styles (e.g. Celebration'' (Moon Cycle) - Four stars With '04 almost over, we can safely declare this the best jazz guitar album of the year. Campbell, the late Henry Mancini's longtime guitarist, shows versatility and depth on this warm set of six-string duos with Larry Coryell Larry Coryell (April 2 1943-) is an American jazz guitarist. He was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1943. After graduating from Richland High School in eastern Washington, he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. , Pat Martino Pat Martino (born Pat Azzara, August 25, 1944, in South Philadelphia) is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, soul jazz, mainstream jazz and hard bop idioms. , John Abercrombie John Abercrombie or Abercromby may be:
- Steven Rosenberg TONY BENNETT: ``Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett''(RPM/Columbia) - Four stars TONY BENNETT: ``The Complete Improv Recordings'' (Concord) - Four stars If Bennett's beautiful new collection of top-flight, rarely performed love songs, ``The Art of Romance The Art(e) Of Romance is the 5th Fun People Long Play. Was issue by Ugly Records. Songs: 1- Take Over 2- Middle Of The Round 3- F.M.S.ra-logo.jpg (2441 bytes) 4- What Will We Gonna Pay? 5- Leave Me Alonera-logo. ,'' isn't enough of a gift, here are two outstanding compilations. ``Artistry'' adds another disc and 23 more tracks to the four-disc box that was originally released in 1991, the definitive Bennett retrospective. ``Improv'' collects the five albums Bennett recorded for his own label from 1975-77 on four CDs, adding numerous alternate takes and one unissued cut. The material is consistently outstanding. One look at his collaborators _ pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Charlie Byrd among them _ and you know why. For various reasons, this music was initially lost in the shuffle. It won't be again. - Glenn Whipp THE GOURDS: ``Blood of the Ram'' (Eleven Thirty) - Three and one half stars Apocalyptic visions mingle with preverbal pre·verb·al adj. 1. Preceding the verb. 2. a. Having not yet learned to speak: preverbal children. b. party grunts on this latest album from the musically peripatetic Texas roots outfit. Sometimes they sound like a classic soul band, oftentimes they sound like the Band, and a good deal of Cajun accordion lends a certain swamp-monster stomp to the whole affair. Lyrics are very clever, too, when they're not being slurred slur tr.v. slurred, slur·ring, slurs 1. To pronounce indistinctly. 2. To talk about disparagingly or insultingly. 3. To pass over lightly or carelessly; treat without due consideration. ; of course, some will consider that a blessing during the dirtier verses. - Bob Strauss HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL Handsome Boy Modeling School is a hip-hop collaboration between Dan the Automator and Prince Paul, producer of influential rap trio De La Soul. History Handsome Boy Modeling School is a conceptual hip-hop duo that parodied and acted as a commentary on vain, crass, : ``White People'' (Atlantic/Elektra) - Four stars If the interludes featuring Father Guido Sarducci Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character made famous by American comedian Don Novello. Sarducci, a chain-smoking priest with tinted eyeglasses, works in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. and Tim Meadows are too silly, skip 'em. This dynamic new set from super-producers Prince Paul and Dan ``The Automator'' Nakamura and an all-star cast has plenty of yesteryear-tinged beats from which to choose. Take ``If It Wasn't for You,'' a Charleston swing-hopper that features De La Soul and Starchild Excalibur trading rhymes over needle-scratches, piano, cellos and horns. Reggae rhythms and pleading vocals from Barrington Levy are paired with laid-back rhymes from Del the Funky Homosapien and a crooning Alex Kapranos on ``The World's Gone Mad.'' On ``Breakdown,'' Jack Johnson's mellow vocals are accompanied by looping beats and distant, operatic voices. And the more you listen, the better this album gets. - Sandra Barrera CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- 5) no caption (CD Covers) |
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