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CROWS FEET PRODUCTIONS
GINA SICILIA/Allow Me to Confess: In the tradition of those east coast ladies like Maria Muldaur and Rory Block, Sicilia tosses her hat into the ring and comes up with more of a ringer than a leaner. Relying on mostly originals, she’s more Esther Phillips than Memphis Minnie but she certainly shows a knack for knowing how to rock those blues. An up and comer well worth watching, she’s one the next generation of blues fans can call their own.
38800 (Swingnation)
KARI ON PRODUCTIONS
MITCH MARCUS QUINTET/The Special: Recently voted San Francisco’s best jazz group, this sax led crew blows their jazz the old fashioned way, that is if you have skeletons in your closets that range from Monk to Zappa. Not revivalists, they play with an open ear cocked to the future but invite you on the journey as opposed to daring you to make it. Delightfully hardhitting date that shows the future of jazz is in good hands, this post bop, hard driving set is sure to open ears from coast to coast to what is brewing by the Bay. Hot
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MANHATTAN
VAN MORRISON/Best of V. 3: A fully loaded twofer culled from the last 15 years of Morrison’s -who cares?- period, there aren’t any ‘hits’ here, but their aren’t any stinkers either, even with tracks pulled from less than satisfying sets. Gleefully bounding between new age, Celtic, jazz, skiffle, rock, tributes, duets and mixing in rarities, this is an amazing look at a lion in winter that has made his bones and is now simply out to amuse himself. Jackie Wilson must be smiling because we are amused as well. Certainly, if you haven’t kept up with some of the late period amazing albums he’s been putting out, this omnibus look that them is not to be missed.
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ROIR
JAMES CHANCE & The Contortions/Soul Exorcism Redux: Probably Miles Davis worst nightmare, a funky white boy that ground up copies of “Bitches Brew” to mix with heroin for recreational purposes and serve to hipster audiences that were way too cool for school. A 1980 Rotterdam concert that was so hot it took ten years for it to escape in recorded form, this is Chance and his crew delivering some of the most incendiary drug soaked fusion you may ever hear. Elephantine funk attacking downtown skronk in a rumble on the no wave corner, this expanded reissue edition doesn’t sound as radical as it did the first time around, but it still sounds ground breaking. A nice snapshot of Chance as he made his bid to be the hardest working man in show biz.
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Volume 30/Number 245
July 3, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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