ROY HARGROVE'S CRISOL HABANA won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance. Habana CD music
At last, this highly touted, heretofore conservative Young Lion makes his move beyond neo-bop toward something new, fresh, and potentially important. He had to go to Havana to find it, starting with some jam sessions with Cuba's Los Van Van dance band in February 1996, which led to the formation of an exciting ten-piece U. S. /Cuban band called Crisol. True, this album is a somewhat subdued ...See Full Description
Roy Hargrove's Crisol - Habana Album Track Listing
Habana songs. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Performance.
That Ry Cooder, you've got to keep an eye on him every minute, or he jumps into another cross-cultural collaboration. In the wake of his landmark recordings ...
Habana CD music. COME AWAY WITH ME won the 2003 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).
"Don't Know Why" won the 2003 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and ...
Habana songs. Any doubts about the incongruity of jazz icon Herbie Hancock covering singer-songwriter extraordinare Joni Mitchell will be obliterated on the first journey through RIVER: THE JONI LETTERS. For starters, the premise is not especially incongruous. Hancock has had a long, ...
Habana music CDs. BEYOND THE MISSOURI SKY won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group.
Metheny and Haden have a lot in common. They're two of the most respected musicians at the vanguard of contemporary jazz, and they've worked ...
Habana album. NEW MOON DAUGHTER won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
From the opening cut, a jagged, ominous deconstruction of Billie Holiday's classic "Strange Fruit," it's clear that there is something unusual going on here. Cassandra Wilson is essentially ...
Habana music CDs. Young trumpeter Nicholas Payton shows some obvious maturity on PAYTON"S PLACE, his third solo disc. Payton was always an improviser with a rare sense of style for his age, but his playing on this disc suggests a little extra seasoning ...
Habana album. Gerry Mulligan once said "cute and jazz don't mix, " but Nashville-based bassist/vocalist Jim Ferguson is making a good go of it. Decidedly not like Slam Stewart but hinting slightly at David Frishberg kitsch or Mose Allison bluesiness, Ferguson goes ...
Habana CD music. After bassist/composer Charles Mingus' death on January 5, 1979, a reunion band featuring some of his former sidemen called Mingus Dynasty was formed. Cut just six months after the bassist's demise, this album was the first Mingus Dynasty recording, and ...
Habana music CDs. There's no denying Priscilla Ahn's voice. Crystalline and pitch-perfect, it's the sort of classic-sounding soprano that belongs to an earlier decade, when folksingers wore flowers in their hair and sang songs about free love. Ahn is the product of a more current generation, but she fills her second album with songs that are just as timeless, from stripped-down Laurel Canyon folk tunes to lightly orchestrated chamber pop ballads. There's plenty of acoustic guitar here, as well as soft splashes of piano, lap steel, and strings, but Ahn's vocals are the focal point. She saturates When You Grow Up with double- and triple-tracked harmonies, and most of the songs' instrumental hooks are sung ...
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