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Enter the Weird World of the Dominique Pifarely Quartet's 'Trace Provisoire' on ECM [REVIEW]
Trumpeter Marquis Hill Says This Is 'The Way We Play' on Concord Music Group Debut [REVIEW]
Trumpet man Marquis Hill, 29, includes spoken-word passages, hiphop, sweet soul and funkalicious jazz in what he calls his Blacktet. Going on four years now, they're tighter than a mosquito's tweeter. This, then, he likes to say, is 'The Way We Play' on his Concord Music Group debut. The Rolling Stones Are 'Totally Stripped' on New Eagle Rock Double-Disc [REVIEW]
In 1995, the Stones, after touring in support of 'Voodoo Lounge,' went into studios in Japan and Spain to re-record some classics, stripping them down to their bare essentials -- lyrics and melody. Called 'Stripped,' it also included show snippets from London, Paris and Amsterdam. Twenty-one years later, 'Totally Stripped' (Eagle Rock Entertainment) revisits the same format with similarly spectacular results.
