CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Robert Johnson: Complete Tracks
There’s something haunting about Robert Johnson’s voice. The blues singer-guitarist sounds at once cock-sure and frightened, giving his recordings the feel of both perspiration and a cold sweat. As I wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal review (here), Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Sony/Legacy) continues to illustrate that given a chance, simplicity and passion will trump technique …
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CD Review: Women on the Verge Cast Album
Last November, I called David Yazbek’s score for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown “lyrically unmemorable.” But having purchased the cast album on iTunes a week ago, I will happily retract that earlier statement.
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: George Shearing “Bossa Nova”
The Japanese branch of EMI Toshiba has just issued 50 budget-priced CDs as part of its “Jazz 999 Best and More” series, including the tremendous George Shearing Bossa Nova, the late pianist’s lovely 1963 album, his first such experiment in the Brazilian fad that swept the Western world in the early half of the 1960s…
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