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Ray Sings, Basie Swings - Ray Charles        (7 of 7 found this review helpful)
  October 7, 2007

I must admit initially not paying a lot of attention to this. Mistake! This is a very exciting disc in many ways. First of all Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra and the 'Raelettes' featured here never actually met. Ray's voice was lifted from live concerts in the UK in the mid seventies. He ... more
Austin Peralta: Mantra        (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
  October 2, 2007

Almost 16 and then coming up with an album like this. Pretty impressive. It would be all too easy to dismiss this as just a virtuoso pianist without the life experience to create an album with 'soul'. I guess that to a certain extend this has to be true. But Peralta adds four of his own compositions ... more
Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage        (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
  August 17, 2007

It is difficult to separate the context in which this music was recorded from the actual performance, and maybe we should not*. On the other hand, this is another modern jazz SA-CD that just has to be judged on its merits for musical content and recording quality. This is a musical journey, full of ... more
Chopin, Grieg: Cello Sonatas - Kanka, Klepac        (6 of 8 found this review helpful)
  June 15, 2007

Translation from original review by Jean-Jacques Millo. Two years, 1846 and 1847, spawned the composition of the Sonata for Cello and Piano by Frederic Chopin and the following series of important works: the Damnnation of Faust by Berlioz, Mendelssohn's Elias, Schumann's Piano Concerto, the Sonata ... more
Martinu: Complete Cello Sonatas - Wick, Devoyon        (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
  June 10, 2007

Translated from the original review by Jean-Jacques Millo With more than 400 works to his name the composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) lived most of his career in France. The musicologist Harry Halbreich notes that Martinu "composed until 1910 almost in shock of the by then previously ... more

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