Soundcheck's CD Picks of the Week
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Each week, the Soundcheck staff digs through their inboxes for the best, catchiest, or strangest music they can find. Here are Soundcheck's pick for the week ending Oct. 19
McCoy Tyner: Quartet (McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note)
McCoy Tyner played in John Coltrane's quartet in the 1960s and is today one of the most influential pianists in jazz. Quartet was recorded live last year with a heavyweight group: Joe Lovano on tenor sax, Christian McBride on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Solid compositions, and you can feel the evening’s fun. --Gisele Regatao
Quartet is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Marco Benevento, Live at Tonic (Rope-a-Dope)
The keyboard half of the instrumental indie-jazz-rock band known as the Benevento-Russo Duo steps out with three – count ‘em, three – CDs of live performing, some solo, some with musical friends like Joe Russo, Bobby Previte, Mike Gordon of Phish, and others. --John Schaefer
Marco Benevento: Live at Tonic is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Byrd: Second Service, Consort Anthems (Harmonia Mundi HMU)
One of the giants of the late English Renaissance period, Byrd wrote "Second Service" for Queen Elizabeth I. The piece is accompanied by anthems and chamber pieces, richly performed by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, along with instrumentalists from Fretwork. --Brian Wise
Byrd's Second Service is available for purchase from Amazon.com
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
Leaving his bedroom and four-track recorder behind, songwriter Sam Beam decamped to a studio with a full band. The result: Beam's whispery vocals float atop backing tracks that rumble, thunder and shimmer. A great band gets even better. --Joel Meyer
The Shepherd's Dog is available for purchase from Amazon.com
McCoy Tyner: Quartet (McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note)
McCoy Tyner played in John Coltrane's quartet in the 1960s and is today one of the most influential pianists in jazz. Quartet was recorded live last year with a heavyweight group: Joe Lovano on tenor sax, Christian McBride on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Solid compositions, and you can feel the evening’s fun. --Gisele Regatao
Quartet is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Marco Benevento, Live at Tonic (Rope-a-Dope)
The keyboard half of the instrumental indie-jazz-rock band known as the Benevento-Russo Duo steps out with three – count ‘em, three – CDs of live performing, some solo, some with musical friends like Joe Russo, Bobby Previte, Mike Gordon of Phish, and others. --John Schaefer
Marco Benevento: Live at Tonic is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Byrd: Second Service, Consort Anthems (Harmonia Mundi HMU)
One of the giants of the late English Renaissance period, Byrd wrote "Second Service" for Queen Elizabeth I. The piece is accompanied by anthems and chamber pieces, richly performed by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, along with instrumentalists from Fretwork. --Brian Wise
Byrd's Second Service is available for purchase from Amazon.com
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
Leaving his bedroom and four-track recorder behind, songwriter Sam Beam decamped to a studio with a full band. The result: Beam's whispery vocals float atop backing tracks that rumble, thunder and shimmer. A great band gets even better. --Joel Meyer
The Shepherd's Dog is available for purchase from Amazon.com
Comments [1]
Marco's Live at Tonic is amazing, very worth the purchase, so's that McCoy Tyner, but everyone knows that. If you didn't know of Marco, get to know him.
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