2006-01-30
For those programmers who pine for another Vince Guaraldi experience after watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas," here's another set of simple but pleasing piano-bass-drums trio music. Other than yet another ill-fated rendition of "Autumn Leaves" (arrrrgggh! enough already!), Roger and his pals competently handle these arrangements and the rhythm section actually gets to pop out into the spotlight with some regularity.1/06 MJVD Jazz-Contemporary
BELA FLECK AND CHICK COREA
The Enchantment
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Next Stop...Soweto, Vol. 3: Giants, Ministers and Makers -- Jazz in South Aftrica 1963-1984
CATHERINE RUSSELL
STRICTLY ROMANCIN'
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet
In The Shadow Of A Cloud
ALLEN TOUSSAINT
The Bright Mississippi
THE GODFATHERS OF GROOVE FEATURING REUBEN WILSON, BERNARD “PRETTY” PURDIE, AND GRANT GREEN JR.
The Godfathers of Groove
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