Shadow Classics
Mitchell's work took an unexpected turn with Mingus, her streaky and often brilliant 1979 collaboration with jazz bassist Charles Mingus. After it, she sounded wiser and hipper, a jazz sophisticate whose melodies came bunched in waves and bursts of scat-singing capriciousness.
Recent Shadow Classics
June 20, 2007 Booker T. & The MGs recorded some of the most enduring riffs and backbeats of the '60s.
June 13, 2007 Zumpano should be known for more than launching the career of The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman.
June 6, 2007 The Hot Spot features greats from two musical worlds: John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis.
May 30, 2007 Dale Hawkins' LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas feels like an original rather than a patchwork.
May 23, 2007 Australian guitarist John Williams celebrates Paraguayan composer Augustin Barrios-Mangore.
May 16, 2007 Even a ubiquitous figure like Chuck Berry has neglected gems gathering spiderwebs somewhere.
May 9, 2007 Jack Logan works in a remarkably bold range of styles, from scruffy post-punk to gentle country.
May 2, 2007 Live and Dangerous is the best existing document of the Irish hard-rock band Thin Lizzy.
April 25, 2007 Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson wrote tunes that always sneaked a step or two beyond convention.
April 18, 2007 Eddie Cleanhead Vinson crafts good-time shuffle-blues spiced with bebop's harmonic sophistication.
