BLANK CDS
If you’re planning to burn CDRs to replace store bought CDs that are no longer functioning properly, you’re going to need some blank CDs. The cheapest way to go about it is to get a spindle of blank CDs and then get the cases separately. Here’s a well reviewed spindle of CDs, followed by […]

JAZZBO NOTES RECOMMENDED RECORDING
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As musically rigorous a release as you would expect from Chris Potter, Traveling Mercies is perhaps a touch too rigorous. The tunes are arranged within an inch of their lives, the rhythms so exacting that there is barely room for the musicians to breathe. Which doesn’t […]

Folks, I am so excited I’m about to wet my pants. One of the greatest live dates of all time, Dave Liebman’s Pendulum, recorded at the Village Vangard in the late 70s, has just been re-released by Mosaic Records. It has never been released in CD form.
But that’s not all. Get this: it is not […]

JAZZBO NOTES RECOMMENDED RECORDING
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Another routinely excellent Latin Jazz release from Tito Puente, Mambo of the Times has only one dud on it, the cheesy title cut Mambo of the Times, which is a weak tune to start with, not even considering the vapid lyrics. But not to worry, if […]

JAZZBO NOTES ESSENTIAL RECORDING
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An exhilarating fusion of hiphop, postbop, and tangents of Miles Davis’ early 70s electric music, Bedrock is nonetheless an intensely focused piece of work.
The sound doesn’t shift much over the course of the record. Uri Caine mostly plays Fender Rhodes, imprinting his unmistakeable personality on an […]