2007-07-30
It has been done with Nina Simone and several artists on the Verve Series; now jazz legend Billie Holiday is being reintroduced to sound systems worldwide. Don’t expect any of the original tunes to remain—in fact, big Billie Holiday fans should just put this back on the shelf. This is more of a cool electronic jazz album with bits of Holiday thrown in at appropriate times. Not bad, but not groundbreaking. Considering the success of these products on our station this is a notable project, but no “Jammies” to be had here. -PSpanish Harlem Orchestra
United We Swing
THE CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964
Colin Stranahan
Transformation
CLUTCHY HOPKINS (Meets Lord Kenjamin)
Music is My Medicine
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
PRESERVATION
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