I found this album at the library just trying out different Jazz albums. I had never heard of Stan Getz but I knew about Corea and Tony Williams. All I can say is that this CD blew my mind from the first moment and did not let me down at any point. This is by far my favorite Jazz album to this day. If you have never heard it you have got to check it out!
"My brain is always ticking, my brain," Mose Allison sings to the tune of "This Train," kicking off 2010's The Way of the World. That brain's always been fully engaged in his process, but now that he's in his early 80s, you could forgive him the boast. Since he started singing, he's had a way with a wryly observational lyric, married to an equally breezy, bluesy tune. The Way of the World is typical Mose,… more »
A few years ago, Italian saxophonist Daniele D'Agaro was visiting Chicago, and a critic friend put on a fairly obscure record to stump him. D'Agaro listened for about three seconds, said: "Lucky." Good ears. He knows the distinctive sound of Lucky Thompson after he started hanging out in Paris and playing sumptuous tenor saxophone ballads recalling old idol Don Byas's Parisian sides. On "Solitude" and "We'll Be Together Again," from Lucky in Paris 1959, his tenor's… more »
