2006-01-30
For those programmers who pine for another Vince Guaraldi experience after watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas," here's another set of simple but pleasing piano-bass-drums trio music. Other than yet another ill-fated rendition of "Autumn Leaves" (arrrrgggh! enough already!), Roger and his pals competently handle these arrangements and the rhythm section actually gets to pop out into the spotlight with some regularity.1/06 MJVD Jazz-Contemporary
THE CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964
PEARL DJANGO
Modern Times
Bob Merrill and Roswell Rudd
Cheerin' Up The Universe
Greg Merritt Jazz Quartet
New York Sexy
SF JAZZ COLLECTIVE
Live 2006
HAPPY APPLE
The Peace Between Our Companies
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