Badi Assad/Larry Coryell/John Abercrombie - 3 Guitars (2003)

01. Seu Jorge E Dona Ica (6:00)
02. New Lute (Prelude) (1:34)
03. New Lute (Interlude) (3:14)
04. Soundtrack (4:17)
05. After The Rain (4:56)
06. Descending Grace (5:28)
07. Metamorphosis (4:03)
08. No Flight Tonight (4:24)
09. Ralph\'s Piano Waltz (5:09)
10. Suspended Circles (5:25)
11. Exercise In Fourths (2:33)
12. Autumn Breeze (3:30)
13. Tímeles (7:04)

Combine three guitar masters, each with a lifetime of impressive musical experiences, and you have the ideal ingredients for an eclectic, original trio known as Three Guitars. The group is comprised of Larry Coryell, from the famed '70s fusion group The Eleventh House; Brazil's Badi Assad, whose innovative sound includes mouth and body percussive techniques; and John Abercrombie, one of the most influential guitarists of the last 25 years. Down Beat Magazine gave their debut CD four stars, praising the trio's "graceful flights of acoustic virtuosity."

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Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)

Tracklist:

1. Big In Japan (4:04)
2. Lowside Of The Road (2:58)
3. Hold On (5:32)
4. Get Behind The Mule (6:51)
5. House Where Nobody Lives (4:13)
6. Cold Water (5:22)
7. Pony (4:31)
8. What's He Building (3:19)
9. Black Market Baby (5:01)
10. Eyeball Kid (4:25)
11. Picture In A Frame (3:39)
12. Chocolate Jesus (3:54)
13. Georgia Lee (4:23)
14. Filipino Box Spring Hog (3:09)
15. Take It With Me (4:24)
16. Come On Up To The House (4:36)

Tom Waits is one of the most innovative artists in popular music. His singular vision embraces everything from blues to tin-pan-alley to jazz to just about anything else you can think of. Grammy winner, actor, poet, a master of the musical collage and lyrical surprise, Tom Waits is simply a giant.

"Mule Variations" offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums. Edgy stomps, humor and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written.

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Pat Metheny - The Way Up (2005)

Tracklist:

1. "Opening" – 5:17
2. "Part One" – 26:27
3. "Part Two" – 20:29
4. "Part Three" – 15:54

The Way Up represents, in the words of guitarist Pat Metheny himself, "our most ambitious undertaking ever as a group"-a single, brilliant 68-minute piece composed by Metheny and his collaborator of 28 years, Lyle Mays. Metheny has likened the creation of The Way Up to making a film, and in some respects, the album feels like a vividly rendered journey, its moods shifting like scenes glimpsed from a fast-moving vehicle.

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Outkast - The Love Below (2003)

Tracklist:

1. "The Love Below (Intro)" – 1:27
2. "Love Hater" – 2:49
3. "God (Interlude)" – 2:20
4. "Happy Valentine's Day" – 5:23
5. "Spread" – 3:51
6. "Where Are My Panties?" – 1:54
7. "Prototype" - 5:26
8. "She Lives in My Lap" (featuring Rosario Dawson) – 4:27
9. "Hey Ya!" – 3:55
10. "Roses" – 6:09
11. "Good Day, Good Sir" – 1:24
12. "Behold a Lady" – 4:37
13. "Pink & Blue" – 5:04
14. "Love in War" – 3:25
15. "She's Alive" – 4:06
16. "Dracula's Wedding" (featuring Kelis) – 2:32
17. "The Letter (Interlude)" - 0:20
18. "My Favorite Things" – 5:14
    
19. "Take Off Your Cool" (featuring Norah Jones) – 2:38
20. "Vibrate" – 6:33
    
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" 4:50
    

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, it clocks at over two and-a-half hours and consists of a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks that are rooted in basic hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz.

Most critics were also particularly more interesed in André's half of the album than on Big Boi's solo venture, due to the experimentation with several music genres on The Love Below. The intro of the album was already a trip on classical music, "Love Hater" has purely jazz influences (apart from a cover of "My Favorite Things", a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein tune), and the rest was a combination of soul, funk, R&B, and hip-hop. Will Hermes from Entertainment Weekly pointed that André's album "is as strange and rich a trip as pop offers nowadays, a song cycle about love's battle against fear and (self-) deception that's frequently profound, hilarious, and very, very sexy."

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Sólo The Love Below de Andre 3000 (Speakerboxxx no).


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Tom Waits - Closing Time (1973)

Tracklist

1. "Ol' '55" – 3:58
2. "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" – 3:54
3. "Virginia Avenue" – 3:10
4. "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)" – 3:40
5. "Midnight Lullaby" – 3:26
6. "Martha" – 4:30
7. "Rosie" – 4:03
8. "Lonely" – 3:12
9. "Ice Cream Man" – 3:05
10. "Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)" – 3:38
11. "Grapefruit Moon" – 4:50
12. "Closing Time" – 4:20

When I listen to Closing Time, I visualise a rundown, unkept bar in an unnamed U.S. city. I see a foggy, smoky atmosphere. I see a handful of patrons alone in their own individual spaces. I see a pool table gathering dust, with no cues and no balls to play with. I see a piano hidden away in a deserted corner. I see a young jazzman, late twenties perhaps, in front of it. Nobody cares that he's been playing all night, and he doesn't care that they're not listening. A few people take a casual interest upon entrance, but soon return to their own problems. With an oft-refilled glass of scoth and a well-used ashtray atop the piano and a cigarette lit in his mouth, the musician plays the opening chords of Ole 55. He's content to be his own audience. He doesn't play for anybody else. In fact, he prefers that nobody take too close an interest in his music. If they look too closely, they'll make him uncomfortable. They'll criticize his words and his music. He doesn't want that.

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Herbie Hancock - River: the Joni Letters (2007)

Tracklist:

All songs were written by Joni Mitchell, except where noted.

1. "Court and Spark" feat. Norah Jones
2. "Edith and the Kingpin" feat. Tina Turner
3. "Both Sides Now"
4. "River" feat. Corinne Bailey Rae
5. "Sweet Bird"
6. "The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)" feat. Joni Mitchell
7. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)
8. "Amelia" feat. Luciana Souza
9. "Nefertiti" (Wayne Shorter)
10. "The Jungle Line" feat. Leonard Cohen

Hancock and his fine band -- Lionel Loueke (guitar), Wayne Shorter (soprano and tenor saxophones), Dave Holland (bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) -- prepare a series of instrumentals and vocal interpretations of the songs of Joni Mitchell. The vocalists here include those who were inspired by Mitchell, namely Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Mitchell herself on one number, and some of her peers in the pop world, including Tina Turner and Leonard Cohen.

But Hancock understands something implicit about Mitchell: she was never -- ever -- a folksinger. Her compositions have always walked wildly adventurous rhythmic and harmonic terrain. Indeed, she has played with jazz musicians solidly since the 1970s, beginning with the L.A. record, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, and toured with jazz groups, including the all-star band assembled for Shadows and Light that included Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Don Alias, and Michael Brecker (Shorter played on a number of those dates as well).

The material here doesn't walk the line between pop and jazz -- something Hancock is very comfortable doing. This is a jazz record with vocals. The album's ten tracks are, for the most part, programmed for a vocal tune, followed by an instrumental.

River approaches brilliance; it's another accomplishment in a career full of them for Hancock. The album doesn't simply recontextualize Mitchell. Any fan of hers has known that she never comfortably fit the whole singer/songwriter thing anyway. It actually does that more for jazz and pop. He takes a sound that has been floating around since Jones issued her debut album, and roots it deeply in the jazz camp without giving up the immediacy of sophisticated adult pop -- which is, in a way, an element of the tradition of jazz itself. For jazz fans, this is a wonderful new chapter, a new way to hear him (and Shorter). For pop and Mitchell fans, this is a way to step quietly into another world and experience wonders.

by Thom Jurek

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Pat Metheny - Day Trip (2008)

Tracklist:

1. Son Of Thirteen
2. At Last You're Here
3. Let's Move
4. Snova
5. Calvin's Keys
6. Is This America?
7. When We Were Free
8. Dreaming Trees
9. The Red One
10. Day Trip
    

Our job is to be deeply in the moment, says Pat Metheny. Day Trip, the first release from Metheny's current trio lineup, featuring bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, vividly depicts the group at one particularly inspired moment. As Metheny explains, We did it the old-school way. We'd been touring for about four or five years at different times and then went in and recorded, rather than making a record and touring behind it. We worked like gangbusters and finished in a day, so the title Day Trip fit. Besides, this is kind of a trip band; they take you on a journey. The Day Trip sessions were recorded at Manhattan’s Right Track studio in late October 2005 and sequenced into a ten-song set earlier this year.

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Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)

Tracklist:

1. New Coat of Paint
2. San Diego Serenade
3. Semi Suite
4. Shiver Me Timbers
5. Diamonds on My Windshield
6. The Heart of Saturday Night
7. Fumblin' With the Blues
8. Please Call Me, Baby
9. Depot, Depot
10. Drunk on the Moon
11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night


Escuchando The Heart of Saturday Night uno prácticamente se puede imaginar el bar casi vacio, mal iluminado, de ambiente viciado a cigarrillo; y en un rincón, el californiano de la voz rasposa cantando sus canciones (monólogos?) con tintes de folk, jazz y blues; con su infaltable whisky y puchos arriba del piano. Este es el disco definitivo del sábado bajonero.


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Keith Jarret - Köln Concert (1975)

Tracklist:

1. "Part I" – 26:15
2. "Part II a" – 15:00
3. "Part II b" – 19:19
4. "Part II c" – 6:59

A musical chameleon, pianist Keith Jarrett was at his finest when he recorded these sustained solo improvisations in a German concert hall in 1975, the first lasting 26 minutes, the second 40. Melodies and rhythmic figures arise fluidly from his fingers as he moves from one idea to another, while his strong left hand is often used for repeated motifs that generate a rolling hypnotic power. This couples with strongly consonant harmonies to impart the flavor of gospel music at times, dance musics and Debussy at others. Above all, it's Jarrett's ability to knit all of his moods and wanderings into an almost seamless tapestry of warm and tuneful ideas that gives this music its enduring appeal.

Stuart Broomer

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Regina Spektor - 11:11 (2001)

Track listing

1. "Love Affair" – 2:22
2. "Rejazz" – 3:37
3. "Back of a Truck" – 5:52
4. "Buildings" – 4:43
5. "Mary Ann" – 2:56
6. "Flyin" – 1:59
7. "Wasteside" – 2:22
8. "Pavlov's Daughter" – 7:43
9. "2.99 Cent Blues" – 3:33
10. "Braille" – 4:55
11. "I Want to Sing" – 3:56
12. "Sunshine" – 2:23

Su primer disco, probablemente el más crudo de todos. La mayoría de los temas son sólo voz y piano, en algunos se suma un contrabajo, y otros son sólo voz y contrabajo o directamente a cappella.

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John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)

Tracklist:

1. "Giant Steps" – 4:43
2. "Cousin Mary" – 5:45
3. "Countdown" – 2:21
4. "Spiral" – 5:56
5. "Syeeda's Song Flute" – 7:00
6. "Naima" – 4:21
7. "Mr. P.C." (Mr. Paul Chambers) – 6:57

History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a watershed the likes of which may never truly be appreciated. Giant Steps bore the double-edged sword of furthering the cause of the music as well as delivering it to an increasingly mainstream audience. Although this was John Coltrane's debut for Atlantic, he was concurrently performing and recording with Miles Davis. Within the space of less than three weeks, Coltrane would complete his work with Davis and company on another genre-defining disc, Kind of Blue, before commencing his efforts on this one. Coltrane (tenor sax) is flanked by essentially two different trios. Recording commenced in early May of 1959 with a pair of sessions that featured Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Art Taylor (drums), as well as Paul Chambers -- who was the only band member other than Coltrane to have performed on every date. When recording resumed in December of that year, Wynton Kelly (piano) and Jimmy Cobb (drums) were instated -- replicating the lineup featured on Kind of Blue, sans Miles Davis of course. At the heart of these recordings, however, is the laser-beam focus of Coltrane's tenor solos. All seven pieces issued on the original Giant StepsIra Gitler accurately dubbed "sheets of sound." Coltrane's polytonal torrents extricate the amicable and otherwise cordial solos that had begun decaying the very exigency of the genre -- turning it into the equivalent of easy listening. He wastes no time as the disc's title track immediately indicates a progression from which there would be no looking back. Line upon line of highly cerebral improvisation snake between the melody and solos, practically fusing the two. The resolute intensity of "Countdown" does more to modernize jazz in 141 seconds than many artists do in their entire careers. Tellingly, the contrasting and ultimately pastoral "Naima" was the last tune to be recorded, and is the only track on the original long-player to feature the Kind of Blue quartet. What is lost in tempo is more than recouped in intrinsic melodic beauty.
are likewise Coltrane compositions. He was, in essence, beginning to rewrite the jazz canon with material that would be centered on solos -- the 180-degree antithesis of the art form up to that point. These arrangements would create a place for the solo to become infinitely more compelling. This would culminate in a frenetic performance style that noted jazz journalist

by Lindsay Planer

Otro clásico infaltable del jazz, no necesita introducción.

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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Tracklist:

1. "So What" – 9:25
2. "Freddie Freeloader" – 9:49
3. "Blue in Green" – 5:37
4. "All Blues" – 11:35
5. "Flamenco Sketches" – 9:26

Músicos:

• Miles Davis – trumpet, leader
• Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone, except on "Blue in Green"
• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
• Wynton Kelly – piano, only on "Freddie Freeloader"
• Bill Evans – piano on all, except "Freddie Freeloader"
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius. It lures listeners in with the slow, luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of "So What." From that moment on, the record never really changes pace -- each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz -- tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band -- Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb -- one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. Davis laid out the themes before the tape rolled, and then the band improvised. The end results were wondrous and still crackle with vitality. Kind of Blue works on many different levels. It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening. It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable. It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz -- but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection.

Uno de los discos más influyentes de la historia y que marcó un antes y un después en el jazz. No puede faltar en la colección de ningún fanático de la música.



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Kronos Quartet - Music of Bill Evans (1986)

No hay mucho que decir, el Kronos Quartet arregló estos temas de Bill Evans para cuarteto de cuerdas (lógico) e invitó a dos grandes del jazz a participar del disco, Jim Hall (guitarra) y Eddie Gómez (contrabajo). Lindo disco.


Tracklist:

1. Waltz for Debby
2. Very Early
3. Nardis
4. Re: Person I Knew
5. Time Remembered
6. Walking Up
7. Turn Out the Stars/guitar improvisation
8. Five
9. Peace Piece


Waltz For Debby


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Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes From The Underground (1985)

1. "Black Codes" – 9:31
   
2. "For Wee Folks" – 9:06
   
3. "Delfeayo's Dilemma" – 6:46
   
4. "Phryzzinian Man" – 6:44
   
5. "Aural Oasis" – 5:35
   
6. "Chambers of Tain" – 7:38
   
7. "Blues" – 5:21

51 minutos de buen jazz. Wynton es quizá, EL trompetista del momento, domina tanto en el jazz como en el ambiente clásico.

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