Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
A Blue Note collection with a bossa nova influence. 1. Horace Parlan - Congalegre 2. Charlie Rouse - Back Down to the Tropics 3. Big John Patton - Latona 4. Duke Pearson - Sandalia Dela 5. Ike Quebec - Loie 6. Cannonball Adderley - Sambop 7. Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia 8. Grant Green - Mambo Inn 9. Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues 10. Eliane Elias - Waters of March (Aguas de Março) 11. Andrew...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a singer's singer with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/19/2009
A first CD release for this relatively obscure 1961 hard-bop session.
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/03/2009
This is a nice bluesy hard bop session that is typical of the type of blues and bop based music that was the core of Blue Note's output during this period. Parlan was a thoughtful and nimble pianist who overcame a bout of polio that reduced use of one of his hands to become a proficient and productive jazz musician. Joining him on this disc are a couple of masters of the bluesy groove, guitarist Grant...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
This week is the most ambitious BoL ever: we feature a classic from Pharoah Sanders, contemporary music from Dutch vocalist Tirjntje Oosterhuis, and an extensive “Amazing Grace” special that features Ernestine, Dirty Dozen Brass, Mica Paris, Walela, Klazz Brothers & Edson Cordeiro, World Saxophone Quartet, Soweto Gospel Choir, Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra, [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
"Motherless Child" is the quintessential black folk song.
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
Here’s a great jazz album! “One Foot in the Gutter” The Dave Bailey Sextet on (Columbia) Epic Records. The lineup here is amazing with Clark Terry on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Horace Parlan on piano, and Peck Morrison on bass. The songs are: One Foot In [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
Some previous Night Lights shows from the archives, offered as listening suggestions for the coming weekend: Jazz, Spiritually Speaking. Jazz interpretations of spirituals by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Grant Green, Louis Armstrong, Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan, and more...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 08/07/2007
For further appreciation of Benny Carter (see the next exhibit), here are links to three...
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