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Article: Liner Notes

Verve's Bossa Nova U.S.A.

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
April 15, 2025

Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue Originally titled “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" in 1941, this Satchmo tune lost its Dixie beat and got a bossa groove in the hands of the infallible Don Sebesky. Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira, then a newcomer in the New York jazz scene, provides a fiery propulsion to Paul Desmond's lyrical approach ...

Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “�� tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Album

Trachant PAP

By Pablo Montagne

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Gateau au Chocolat, Little Box, Drip, POP UP, Nord Ovest, age_19, Calma Apparente, Sospeso, Fall.

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Evergreen

By Julius Rodriguez

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mission Statement; Funmi��s Groove; Around The World; Road Rage; Rise and Shine; Many Time; Run To It; Love Everlasting; Stars Talk; Champion��s Call.

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Grande-Terre

By Roy Hargrove

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rumba Roy; Audrey; Lake Danse; Kamala��s Dance; B and B; Another Time; Lullaby from Atlantis; Afreaka; Ethiopia; Priorities.

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Anita Sings The Most

By Anita O'Day

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: 'S Wonderful / They Can't Take That Away From Me; Tenderly; Old Devil Moon; Love Me Or Leave Me; We'll Be Together Again; Stella By Starlight; Taking A Chance On Love; Them There Eyes; I've Got The World On A String; You Turned The Table On Me; Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered;

Album

Portrait

By Samara Joy

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: You Stepped Out of a Dream; Reincarnation Of A Lovebird; Autumn Nocturne; Peace Of Mind / Dreams Come True; A Fool In Love; No More Blues; Now And Then (In Remembrance Of��); Day by Day

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

Article: Album Review

Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Grande-Terre

Read "Grande-Terre" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 21, 2024

Increasingly and with growing momentum, right up until he died at the young age of 55 in 2018, Roy Hargrove was a standard bearer for a new kind of African American jazz. The recipe embraced a variety of styles--jazz, Afro-Cuban music, funk, hip hop and soul--and it influenced a generation of musicians in jazz and beyond. ...

Article: Album Review

Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen

by Chris May
June 1, 2024

There are two faces of Julius Rodriguez and they are opposing rather than complementary. One face is the pop-jazz one presented by multi-instumentalist Rodriquez on his own albums. The other is the adventurous, strikingly singular modern-jazz face presented by pianist Rodriguez on other people's albums. It is possible to be wildly enthusiastic about the jazz face ...