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Live Recording
Personnel: Claudia Acuna (vocals); Jimmy Greene (soprano saxophone); Jason Linder (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); John Benitez (acoustic & electric basses); Gene Jackson (drums); Luisito Quintero (percussion).
Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York on November 6-8, 2003.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Claudia Acuña (vocals, background vocals); Jimmy Greene (soprano saxophone); John Benítez (acoustic bass, electric bass); Gene Jackson (drums); Luisito Quintero (percussion); Joe Ferla, Bethany Yarrow (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Claudia Acuña.
Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (11/06/2003-11/08/2003).
Photographer: Jimmy Katz.
Arrangers: Claudia Acuña; John Benítez; Luisito Quintero.
Dropping the traditional jazz standards she dealt with on her two Verve efforts, Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuña reveals a more contemporary, R&B-infused Latin sound on her Maxjazz debut. Easily Acuña's most personal work to date, Luna once again displays her immense gift for delicately passionate vocals and interesting arrangements. Still utilizing the mellow, sensitive Fender Rhodes keyboard playing of longtime collaborator Jason Lindner, Acuña sings more Spanish on her third disc -- only Lindner's "Yesterday You and I" is sung in English -- and eschews any real straight-ahead jazz stylings for an almost fusion approach. That is not to say this is jazz-pop, but the delicate melodies do call to mind '70s Airto Moreira and the best Al Jarreau. While there are few if any outright jazz improvisations -- most of the tracks are under five minutes -- the music is still complex, literate, and sophisticated with deep harmonies that should appeal to hardcore jazz listeners and Latin music enthusiasts alike. ~ Matt Collar
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Composer: Mary Lou Williams.
Personnel: Mary Lou Williams (piano); Ray Charles Singers, Jimmy Mitchell (vocals); Grant Green (guitar); Budd Johnson (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone); Percy Brice (drums).
Recording information: New York City, Cue Studios (10/09/1963/11/19/1963); Nola Studios, New York, NY (10/09/1963/11/19/1963).
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Complex and brooding suites by jazz artists have often received mixed reviews. Whether hailed as brilliant and visionary or slammed as self-indulgent and trite -- Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, Charles Mingus' infamous Town Hall Concert, or even Wynton Marsalis' Blood on the Fields all come to mind -- these works are, if nothing else, great risks for the artists involved. At the time of its initial performance, "Black Christ of the Andes" (or "St. Martin de Porres") was called everything from "blues stripped of its accent" to a "hokey prayer," prompting Williams to cut it from her repertoire before the release of the LP in 1964. An unfortunate fate for a very enjoyable and, now, highly regarded piece of music. Williams explained her pioneering concept of pairing jazz with spirituals as an attempt to heal the disparity between the gifted nature of the African-American and his tendency toward the worst kinds of sin. In fact, the original title for this LP was Music for Disturbed Souls. Certainly, by 1962 others had employed the modes and feel of the church into jazz, but Williams' use of the Ray Charles Singers (no relation to the other Ray Charles) added an element that made "St. Martin," an a cappella choral piece, a much more church-oriented affair than, say, John Coltrane's "Spiritual." Williams' vision, like Coltrane's, was at times dark and sobering while at others full of warmth and hope. It would have been completely out of place, however, at the Village Vanguard. This is a piece that belongs, if not in the church, then certainly out of the nightclub circuit. Other tracks on this LP, ...
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