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Johnny Vidacovich: Out Da Box
by Thomas Cole
The jazz tradition is often one featuring drummers leading bands. Gene Krupa headlined a group known by his name as have jazz greats Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones and the list goes on. Appearing on that same list of the 50 greatest jazz drummers, why not Johnny Vidacovich too? With no explicit intent to break the molds from which jazz drummers emerge and set new standards, his thing comes effortlessly--it is who he is rather than a ...
read moreDenise Mangiardi: Brown Book
by Jerome Wilson
Denise Mangiardi dwells in two musical worlds, as both a jazz singer and an accomplished classical composer. She puts all her talents to good use on this CD, singing a collection of self-written ballads, folk songs and torch songs, over her own haunting arrangements. Mangiardi's moving string-writing appears on the two brief Soundscape" instrumentals which bookend the album, as well as on the songs The Exchange," Waves," and My Beauty"--which is really Thelonious Monk's Ugly Beauty" with lyrics ...
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