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Monthly Archive: March 2005

Jazz CD Reviews March-April Part 1 of 2

by | Mar 1, 2005 | Jazz CD Reviews

  March-April 2005 Part 1 of 2 [Pt. 2] Marta Gomez – Cantos de Agua Dulce – Marta Gomez and her Quartet – Chesky JD 281, 53:35 **** [Also available as a hybrid multichannel SACD]: Marta Gomez is a young woman who has chosen to take South American folk-rhythms, and folk songs, and infuse them with a jazz sensibility. Of these raw materials she composes her own tunes and lyrics to make songs. She goes on to perform them as though they were Schubert lieder; that is, she sings them with spare accompaniment and exquisite control. That’s not to say she sings with all the trills and artifice of the Schubertian belle canto style: quite the opposite. She sings with the simplicity and plaintive quality of an indigenous folk singer you might catch giving a lunchtime recital at the Mexico City Museum of Anthropology, in Chapultepec Park. Her voice is free of vibrato. She hangs some notes out there for us to feel, beautiful notes held long enough to contemplate, in her rather small, sad voice. She is accompanied by minimal forces; typically, guitar, bass, drums, and on some songs she’ll add a flute or accordion. You might think of […]

Index to All 158 Discs Reviewed

by | Mar 1, 2005 | Index to All Reviews

Index to All 158 Discs Reviewed for March 2005: HI-RES REVIEWS, PT 1 (Jazz) – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (DualDisc); Chet Baker – Baker’s Holiday; Andy Narell & Calypsociation – The Passage (Multichannel Disc of the Month); Michel Camilo, solo piano; Claire Martin – Secret Love; Sarah Moule – Something’s Gotta Give; Gaby Cole – Just for a While; Mike Marshal, mandolin – Gator Strut; Bob Brookmeyer Big Band – Get Well Soon; The Music of Ivan Lins performed by Sting, Grover Washington Jr., Chaka Khan, etc.; Wayne Horvitz & Robin Holcomb, solo piano; Patrick Zimmerli with strings – Phoenix; Fone Jazz Makers – Girl of my Dreams; Andre Geraissati, guitars – Canto das Aguas; Andre Mehmari, piano & ens. – Lachrimae HI-RES REVIEWS, PT. 2 (Classical) – Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone (DualDisc); Joshua Bell – Romance of the Violin (DualDisc); The 5 Browns – (Dual Disc); Heifetz Concertos – SIBELIUS, PROKOFIEV, GLAZOUNOV; OFFENBACH: Gaite Parisienne & ROSSINI: La Boutique fantasque – Boston Pops; RAVEL: Bolero, La Valse, Rapsodie, DEBUSSY: Images – BSO/Munch; DVORAK Cello Concerto & WALTON Cello Concerto – Piatigorsky/BSO/Munch; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, STRAVINSKY: Song of the Nightingale – Chicago Sym./Reiner; BRAHMS: Piano Con. No. 1 […]

Home Page-March 2005

by | Mar 1, 2005 | Home Page

Our eighth Hi-Res Drawing features DVD-As from AIX Records. A dozen lucky AUDIOPHILE AUDITION readers who Register Here (or have registered earlier) will receive their choice of one of the 3 above DVD-A & V discs: The Latin Jazz Trio of Conte & Garfield, Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony & Respighi’s Pines of Rome, or the two founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Drawings will be made March 1, we’ll announce the winners shortly thereafter, and we won’t sell or share your information. Check back with us frequently for new reviews & news!   January/February 2005 Contents New Jazz & Rock Reviews! New Audio News! Report on Consumer Electronics Show! 41 SACD, DVD-A & xrcd Hi-Res Reviews (Pt. 1 – Jazz, Pt. 2 & Pt. 3 – Classical & Pop) Jazz Reviews (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) 17 new jazz & rock reviews! 22 Classical CD Reviews (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) 29 DVD Video Reviews (Pt. 1 – All Music Videos, Pt. 2, Pt. 3) Components: Roan Audio Seven Speaker; Consonance M-500S Tube Monoblock Amp; radioSHARK Computer FM-AM & Timeshifter 15 Classical Reissue Reviews (Pt. 1, Pt. 2) Features of the Month: 2004 Best Discs of the Year List (New!); Classical […]