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'Tis the Season for Silver Discs
Holiday shopping is tough enough. Buying music for friends and family is even tougher. Three music critics join guest host Katherine Lanpher to offer tips on what CDs to buy your friends, family — and even your enemy. And later: Ben Jaffe of the New Orleans Preservation Hall shares tracks from "Made in New Orleans," a collection of archival jazz tracks -- and unusual artifacts.
Gift Ideas for the Holidays
To kick off the shopping season, Soundcheck enlists the help of local music critics to help you decide which CDs to buy friends and loved ones -- and even your enemy. (Yes, we even buy gifts for our enemies.) Coming to our holiday rescue: music writers Fred Plotkin, Jody Rosen, and Carolina Gonzales.
Fred Plotkin's Picks:
Fred Plotkin is author of several books on music including Classical Music 101 and Opera 101
Luciano Pavarotti, "Pavarotti in Concert" (Decca)
Various Artists, "Tango Around The World" (Putumayo)
Aretha Franklin, "Jewels in the Crown" (Arista)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, "Aria: Opera without Words" (Decca)
Cecilia Bartoli, "Maria" (Decca)
Jody Rosen's Picks:
Jody Rosen is the music critic of Slate.com
Bonde do Rolê, "Solta o frango"
Brad Praisley, "50th Gear"
The Pierces, "Thirteen tales of love and revenge"
Various Artists, "The Complete Hit of the Week Recordings, Volume 3" (Archeophone)
Carolina Gonzales's Picks:
Carolina Gonzales is a contributor to Viva NY, the Latino section of the New York Daily News
Jose Gonzalez, "In Our Nature"
Kiran Alhuwalia, "Wanderlust"
Tinariwen, "Aman Iman (Water is Life)"
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, "100 Days and 100 Nights"
Made in New Orleans
Ben Jaffe, the son of Preservation Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, talks about assembling archival recordings and New Orleans artifacts that his parents had collected over the years. The result, a CD-DVD double-disc set called "Made In New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions," features recordings rescued from floodwaters in Allen Toussaint's Sea-Saint studios.
Preservation Hall website
"Made in New Orleans" is available for purchase on Amazon.com
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