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Time Out [Original Recording Reissued & Remastered] by The Dave Brubeck Quartet

On November 18, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

Boasting the first jazz instrumental to sell a million copies, the Paul Desmond-penned “Take Five,” Time Out captures the celebrated jazz quartet at the height of both its popularity and its powers.

Putumayo Presents: Latin Jazz by Various Artists

On November 18, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

The artists featured on Latin Jazz represent an honored cast of musicians ranging from early pioneers of the genre to those who have helped it remain a viable force for more than 60 years.

Music CD: …Featuring Norah Jones by Norah Jones

On November 18, 2010, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

This album collects Norah’s favorite collaborations from 2001-2010 into one amazing collection: legends like Ray Charles, Willie Nelson and Herbie Hancock, rock artists ranging from Foo Fighters to Ryan Adams to Belle and Sebastian, hip hop luminaries OutKast, Q-Tip and Talib Kweli.

Music CD: Get Closer by Keith Urban

On November 18, 2010, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

Get Closer follows Urban’s Billboard Top 200 Album Chart #1 Defying Gravity, which produced two #1 singles including “Only You Can Love Me This Way” and “Sweet Thing”, for which Urban won his third Grammy Award (Best Male Country Vocal Performance).

Music CD: Born Free by Kid Rock

On November 17, 2010, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

Kid Rock will release his 8th studio album, ‘Born Free,’ on November 16th via Atlantic Records. The record was produced by Rick Rubin and mixed by Greg Fidelman. The first single from the album will be, appropriately, ‘Born Free’ which hits radio September 14th. ‘Born Free’ is in many ways a transformational album for Kid Rock. While there is still the edge, wit, and swagger of previous albums, he doesn’t rap, there’s no metal – there isn’t even a parental warning sticker.

The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story by Bruce Springsteen

On November 17, 2010, in It's all about music..., Movies, DVDs, Blu-ray, by Wilfried F. Voss

“Darkness was my ‘samurai’ record,” Springsteen writes, “stripped to the frame and ready to rumble.” But the music that got left behind was substantial.

Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music – The Ken Burns JAZZ Collection with Various Artists

On November 11, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns’s 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman’s 1938 classic, “Sing, Sing, Sing”; John Coltrane’s chanting 1965 immortal track, “A Love Supreme”; Billie Holiday’s blue-ember ballad, “God Bless the Child”; and Ella Fitzgerald peeling off “A-Tisket A-Tasket.” Bebop is represented by Charlie Parker’s orchestral bop version of “Just Friends”; Thelonious Monk’s nocturnal calling card, “‘Round Midnight”; and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Salt Peanuts” and “Groovin’ High.”

Music CD: Great Ladies of Jazz – Various Artists

On November 11, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

Great Ladies of Jazz is a very solid CD that features some really great songs performed by some of the very best female jazz singers ever. The quality of the sound is fantastic; and the artwork is very well done as well.

Music CD: Pure Jazz by Various Artists

On November 11, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

With the exclamatory message “18 of the Greatest Jazz Recordings Ever!” inset in its tray card, Pure Jazz isn’t a bashful anthology. It opens with Nina Simone’s early hit, the shuffle-rhythm “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” then features another dozen vocal tracks that hit high marks all around. The most familiar are probably Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child,” here from the achingly poignant Lady Sings the Blues collection, and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong teaming up on “Summertime.” But there’s also Sarah Vaughan on “Misty” and Nat “King” Cole on “Unforgettable.”

Kind of Blue [Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered] by Miles Davis

On November 11, 2010, in Jazzorama!, by Wilfried F. Voss

This is the one jazz record owned by people who don’t listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis’s masterful casting skills, if not of God’s existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on “Freddie Freeloader,” Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.