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The Year 2006 in Pop Music and Jazz
Critics' Week, Soundcheck's look back at the year 2006 in music, kicks off with an overview of the year in pop music. Jody Rosen, music critic for Slate.com, shares his favorites. Also: a look back at the year in jazz with Doug Ramsey, editor of the jazz blog, "Rifftides," at Artsjournal.com, and author of several books on jazz including Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. Finally: After making a splash in London, award-winning theatre director Richard Eyre brings "Mary Poppins" to the Great White Way. He joins us to talk about it.
Critics' Week 2006 on Soundcheck
Critics' picks are available on Amazon.com
The Year in Pop Music
Jody Rosen, music critic for Slate.com shares his highlights of the year in pop music.
Jody Rosen's 2006 Picks:
Timbaland as producer on Nelly Furtado's "Loose" and Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex / LoveSounds"
Beyoncé "B'Day"
Mary J. Blige "The Breakthrough"
Joanna Newsom "Ys"
Corinne Bailey Rae "Corinne Bailey Rae"
KT Kunstall "Eye To The Telescope"
The Year in Jazz
Doug Ramsey, author of several books on jazz including Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond, and editor of the jazz blog, "Rifftides," at Artsjournal.com shares his favorites of 2006 in jazz.
Doug Ramsey's 2006 Picks:
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: ”Up From the Skies” (Planet Arts)
Sonny Rollins: “Sonny, Please” (Doxy)
Various: “The Summary, Music of Thad Jones, Volume 2” (IPO)
Bob Brookmeyer: “Spirit Music” (ArtistShare)
Martial Solal, Dave Douglas: “Rue De Seine” (CamJazz)
Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri: “Simpatico” (ArtistShare)
John McNeil: “East Coast Cool” (OmniTone)
Harold Danko: “Hinesight” (Steeplechase)
Alan Broadbent: “Every Time I Think of You” (Artistry)
Houston Person with Bill Charlap: “You Taught My Heart to Sing” (High Note)
Reissues
Charles Mingus: “Music Written for Monterey, 1965, Not Heard, Played at UCLA” (Sunnyside)
Gerry Mulligan: “The Fabulous Gerry Mulligan Sextet” (Fresh Sound)
Shirley Horn, Marian McPartland: “Piano Jazz” (Jazz Alliance)
Benny Carter, Wilbert Baranco, Gerald Wilson: “Groovin’ High in L.A. 1946” (HEP)
Miles Davis: “The Legendary Quintet” (Prestige)
Rifftides at ArtsJournal.com
Soundcheck's Critics' Week 2006
Mary Poppins: The Musical
The world's most famous nanny has danced her way onto Broadway. A look at "Mary Poppins: The Musical" with director Richard Eyre.
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