This fine collection of new arrangements of 1960s Antonio Carlos Jobim tunes has been my motoring companion of choice for several weeks, and a very likeable one it is too. A largely instrumental album, it features the eight-piece ensemble of [...]
It is extraordinary to think that this is Birgit Minichmayr’s first complete album as a vocalist, such is her command of the material and the sheer range of emotion and mood she conjures up. Primarily an actor and very well [...]
This is a timely and thoroughly justified re-release of an album that originally came out in 1997 under the title “The Way Home”. The music in question is spirited, uplifting and dance-inflected and will surely have broad appeal, within and [...]
How to distil the essence of music and music making, using words only? Arguably impossible, certainly challenging, this is the task Jeff Colella has set himself in this e book. With the exception of one chart (“Voyage” by Kenny Barron) [...]
