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Down Beat (7/97, p.62) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...a dynamic and energetic jaunt through the mainstream....they're primo when blazing through brisk material....Shew and Harrell make a great team..."JazzTimes (8/97, p.116) - "Trumpet fans, grab this one....The brassmen are hot; it's not a cutting session but a complementary bright groove. In fact, you can hardly tell Shew and Harrell apart....the trumpet players flash consummate hard bop chops...with a rhythm section to match. Good title, good album."14.33394
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Down Beat (10/97, p.59) - 3 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...[this] solid album delivers some intense, riff-driven originals....his music has a sunny cast....there's a lot to like here..."14.33394
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JazzTimes (2/97, p.102) - "...The musical concept is versatile, free-flowing and heavily rhythmic, accented by numerous superb solos....Absolutely, take this one home."Option (11-12/96, p.96) - "...owes its sound to an Art Blakey-derived, hard-bop springboard, but it reaches into the innovations of the Last Poets, Coltrane, the soul jazz movement and of late '60s Miles Davis....essentially acoustic, the quartet dances around with contemporary urban rhythms..."14.33394
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Down Beat (5/96, p.52) - 3.5 Stars - Good/Very Good - "...a good, old-fashioned session with plenty of familiar standards performed by a group of talented musicians who enjoy playing with each other....But there is something more....Fontana proves to be a most adept collaborator, matching his sidekick's aplomb with a steady concoction of sweet passages..."14.33394
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Down Beat (9/96, p.54) - 3 Stars - Good - "...What is most certainly obvious and arresting about B Sharp is the tightness of the ensemble...the collective ear that keeps them on the same page..."Option (3-4/96, p.93) - "...these guys sound like an old Blue Note session, but edgier and with more enthusiasm..."14.33394
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JazzTimes (7-8/95, p.121) - "...`I passed the state of my four- and five-part harmony long ago' [Wilson] has said. `A band that only employs four-part harmony can never affect the strength my band delivers--no matter how loud they play.' Besides strength, his harmonic structures give a sense of extraordinary depth..."Jazziz (9/95, p.114) - "...[STATE STREET SWEET] is everything that makes big band jazz the finest music humans have created. It's elegant, sophisticated, graceful, fervent, romantic, raucous, and inspirational....There are no weak spots....It's wall-to-wall happiness."Jazziz (10/95, p.37) - "...STATE STREET SWEET captures the essence of his style, which is at once elegant, robust, and gritty..."14.33394
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Vibe (12/97-1/98, p.170) - "...an engaging album of poetry and jazzy percussion....In this pilgrimage through sound and psalms....Leimert Park carries you toward a poetic love supreme."14.33394
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Rolling Stone (12/25/97, p.168) - "...a sun-ripened blend of stateside RYB, big-band brass voicings and that no-hurry sensuality....the Skatalites changed the face and funk of Jamaican music forever. The vintage killers here...show you how they did it."7.713516
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"It invites you to care about what's scaring you." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Chastain digs deep, going beyond the call of scream-queen duty to find the passion that gives horror a pulse."Rolling Stone "If youre a movie fan, you know that horror doesnt get much better than this, and when it comes to contemporary offerings it rarely gets more enjoyable than MAMA."New York Times "MAMA announces the arrival of a director who works unusually well with actors...and who creates highly charged environments, effective sound designs and powerful fantasy sequences."Wall Street Journal "Chastain gets to play an arc, not an archetype, and Mama becomes an honest-to-god film instead of a quickie horror cash-in..."Movieline 3 stars out of 4 -- "MAMA succeeds in scaring the wits out of us and leaving some lingering, deeply creepy images..."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he conflicts contribute to the films tense, complicated family dynamic, building a rich emotional tangle that makes all the startles much more meaningful." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "[T]here are chilling images and precision stings."Total Film7.145495
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Down Beat (p.62) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "MAMA ROSA offers a study in understatement....It carries a quasi-religious feel at times, with a road-song quality running through songs about love, family and the need to connect."Billboard (p.63) - "[A] surprising departure into moody, singer/songwriter fare, and a rousing success at that....The album bathes Blade's hushed vocals in tremolo-tinged guitars and pensive piano lines."7.135092
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Down Beat (7/92, p.47) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "..this would easily warrant the maximum rating if it had only been twice as long.."Musician (10/92, p.108) - "..a delight...should prove a bracing nightcap for those cloistered souls who somehow imagine that Madonna initiated an era of unprecedented sexual liberation.."7.112956
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