This week Verve Records cleans up a sublime batch of bop, big band, crossover jazz and freaky funk. Top honors go to Quincy Jones doing Henry Mancini, Oscar Peterson playing Jerome Kern and Max Roach laying out some bop. Meanwhile, Wes Montgomery, Grover Washington, the Crusaders and Roy Ayers remind us of a time when '70s "sell-out" jazz was better than today's outsider music. Ain't that always the way it goes?
The Jazz Spot -- Verve Remasters Gone Wild
This week Verve Records cleans up a sublime batch of bop, big band, crossover jazz and freaky funk. Top honors go to Quincy Jones doing Henry Mancini, Oscar Peterson playing Jerome Kern and Max Roach laying out some bop. Meanwhile, Wes Montgomery, Grover Washington, the Crusaders and Roy Ayers remind us of a time when '70s "sell-out" jazz was better than today's outsider music. Ain't that always the way it goes?
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