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BRAITHWAITE & KATZ
FRED KATZ/Folk Songs for Far Out Folk: Talk about the return of a lost classic. For years, Katz was the musical heartbeat of Second City, but for those that didn’t even know that much about him, he was way, way more. This 1959 LOST classic is a ’round the horn collection of his varied and eclectic interests. A world beat set from long, long before anybody was thinking along those lines, the forward thinking Katz made a category killer of an album that can stand head and shoulders above almost any like minded genre date today. Almost worth it just to hear some of the great jazz cats he rounded up for these dates as they were 50 years ago, whether starting out or taking busman’s holiday from thriving careers, this is simply a mind blower of a set. In no way dated, to miss a second chance at this 1959 session is to blow it big time.
7 (Reboot Stereophonic)
JUDI SILVANO/Women’s Work: The sweet singing Mrs. Lozano hangs with the gals pals and fashions a tribute to great jazz women that are either under recorded for in danger of being forgotten. A dandy primer that has her tackling works from a varied list ranging from Blossom Dearie to Carla Bley, this isn’t a set about being precious, this is a set about expanding the jazz vocal vocabulary. A live set that tastes good and is good for you, jazz vocal fans have a special treat here on a lot of levels.
6 (JSL)
ALEX KONTOROVICH/Deep Minor: A sax man that’s deep into the klezmer scene but can run with the downtown hipsters as well as the retro cool cats, Kontorovich melds his various passions on this jazzy klezmer date that swings with a gusto that makes world beat often intriguing enough to make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. Surrounding himself on this date with some like minded downtown hipsters, this is a next wave jazz/world date that is heavy on klez but the in demand klez session ace doesn’t let it overwhelm the proceedings. This date let’s you approach the middle from almost any point of the curve and makes you feel welcome where ever you jump in. Tasty stuff the open eared will dig.
10 (Chamsa)
NORDIC CONNECT/Flurry: We were recently amazed to even find there was a thriving Nordic jazz scene and now we get a new set that underscores that our recent find wasn’t a one shot. Ingrid Jensen finds some time away from her work with Maria Schneider to hook up with various family members and friends to make an intimate ECM flavored cool jazz date that does more than reflect the cool north. It’s got it’s swinging elements within context as well but there’s the undercurrent of the melancholy that goes with the territory when you are in darkness six months of the year. A nice piece of impressionistic music that almost hinges on being an art work but shows a little too much blood and feeling to be jazz you have to take sitting down.
62 (Artist Share)
Volume 30/Number 320
September 16, 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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