Lead the Knave
 Traditional Irish fiddle tunes with a modern slant: When I first heard "E Minor Reel" on the radio I was hooked on Nollaig Casey's fiddling and spent some time hunting down this disc (it's not an easy disc to find, and amazon.com impressed me [... more]
CDN$19.99
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54 - Volume 1
From Amazon.com: As if the genre didn't have enough stigmas to transcend, countless nostalgic compilations have done disco additional disservice by reducing the canon to a handful of obvious tunes trotted out endlessly. Fortunately, by including lesser- [... more]
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Leprechaun
very much worth it: If you've grown up in the "synthesizer age" you can appreciate the sounds as the best available at the time. Regardless of tone Corea's performance remains miraculous. But the supporting musicians get the real applause - [... more]
CDN$17.99
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1999 Tonic Live
From Amazon.com: With Tonic, John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood clearly have in mind both a window on their roots and a boundary test. A bristling live album, Tonic whisks listeners back to the trio's auspicious, acoustic-piano-driven debut, [... more]
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Atlantis
From Amazon.com: One of the key but underappreciated episodes in avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra's Atlantis sounds far out even today. Rather than a full-on assault on the senses, Atlantis is an exercise in build-up, with long, almost forlorn passages of Ra on [... more]
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Mass Romantic
From Amazon.co.uk: The joie de vivre that oozes out of this stupidly contagious power pop record sounds as if a bunch of friends just went into the studio to make the sort of record they'd like to hear on a night out. And that's pretty much what Mass [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Mwandishi the Complete
Amazon.com essential recording: These two CDs include three LPs from 1969 to 1972, one of Herbie Hancock's most creative periods. The earliest album, Fat Albert Rotunda, features a fine sextet highlighted by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, like Hancock [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Super Sonic Jazz
Six stars for this one: Recently a friend asked why most of the reviews I have posted have five stars. I pointed out that the main reason is that the CDs I have reviewed are all ones that I own, and that I research very carefully before I buy anything. [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Journey To The One
From Amazon.co.uk: At the time when Pharoah Sanders added his tenor sax to John Coltrane in the mid-60s it would have been deemed fairly unlikely that his music would ever be termed as dance music: but 15 years later coupling his raw sax to a funky 70s [... more]
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Simple Pleasures
THEY'RE BACK!!!!: Fairly quickly on the heels of last year's Meant To Be, Ramsey Lewis and Nancy Wilson are back with this splendid new release. On Meant to Be, Nancy seemed like a guest on a Ramsey Lewis cd.On this new cd, there is definitely more of a [... more]
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Akoustic Band
A mixed bag....: There's a lot of really masterful playing on this album; the problem is that it doesn't alway come together. At times it's more like three solists following a chart but not really listening to each other. Taken individually, the playing [... more]
CDN$36.44
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Akoustic Band
A mixed bag....: There's a lot of really masterful playing on this album; the problem is that it doesn't alway come together. At times it's more like three solists following a chart but not really listening to each other. Taken individually, the playing [... more]
CDN$15.99
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