The Sea And Cake: Sam Prekop (vocals, guitar); Archer Prewitt (guitar, organ); Eric Claridge (bass, piano); John McEntire (percussion, synthesizer, organ, electric piano). Additional Personnel: Marnie Christensen (violin); Poppy Brandes (cello). Recorded at Idful Music, Chicago, Illinois. Half a year after its fine self-titled debut, The Sea and Cake released NASSAU. The album is a bit more muscular-the drums (played by Tortoise's John McEntire)-are actually pummeled this time out. But the overall effect is still one of gentle hypnotism. "The Cantina" roars along with background chorus vocals, explosive organ and drum parts, and compelling (but difficult to decipher) vocals. "Soft And Sleep" may be the band's finest moment yet. Beautifully chiming guitars delineate just a few chords, but The Sea and Cake builds on top of this with gorgeous harmonics, leader Sam Prekop's singing, and the subtle tensions of fully-interlocking ensemble playing. NASSAU was self-recorded, but this is no dashed off lo-fi project. These musicians know what they're doing, what they want, and how to achieve it. This is a great example of a follow-up record bettering an already impressive first album.

THE MASTER ARCHITECT SERIES is a series of monographs on some of the greatest architects and architectural firms of our time.

The Cox Group of architects is one of the most prominent practices of the last forty years of Australian architecture. Beginning with work by Philip Cox in Sydney in the 1960s, it developed through a series of projects for the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra in the seventies and early eighties and expanded through Australia. In recent years there have been an increasing number of large overseas projects. The breadth of work is impressive – from houses to hospitals, bus shelters to urban planning. Impressive, too, is the assurance of the work, and how much of it reflects and has influenced what has come to be regarded as characterising recent Australian architecture: steel and glass and masonry articulated in bright light, with a spirit of informal but controlled inventiveness and sometimes complex but always carefully coordinated geometry.

Winner of an American Institute of Architects Award, this book surveys 20 years characterized by conflict between tradition and invention, modern and anti-modern, and by an abundance of disparate design solutions. More than 75 projects are presented with critical essays, photographs, drawings, site diagrams, construction details, and extensive documentation. 563 illus. 201 in color.

This live set by the Yellowjackets (taped at the Roxy in Hollywood) has plenty of solo space for Bob Mintzer (on tenor, soprano, bass clarinet and EWI) and keyboardist Russell Ferrante (who takes a particularly colorful spot on "Homecoming") along with fine backup work by bassist Jimmy Haslip, drummer William Kennedy and percussionist Paulinho Da Costa. Although the back cover of the CD says "Featuring: Michael Franks, Take 6, Brenda Russell & Marilyn Scott," fortunately Franks, Russell and Scott are only heard on one harmless selection ("The Dream" ) while Take 6 just pops by for the closer "The Revelation." The strength of the improvisations and of Ferrante's Joe Zawinul-like originals make this one of the Yellowjackets' stronger efforts.
-- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

"...The Yellowjackets haven't changed the way they approach their music, but the newfound ability to communicate in a more traditional jazz setting casts them in a whole new (and flattering) light."
-- Dave Connolly

"I'm not a musician, composer etc. so I cannot say anything more technical than - Absolutely wonderful!
Got to be one of the best Jazz CD's I own."
-- D. Olson

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"...Quite possibly the most original vocalist to emerge either side of the Atlantic since Patricia Barber and gathering rave reviews in her native France (yet not the slightest hint of a French accent in English) where she has already been feted as new jazz artist of the year."
-- Tim Stenhouse

Cubismo is a Croatian music band of eleven members playing salsa and latin jazz. The band was founded at the beginning of 1996 by a gathering of eight eminent musicians from various Croatian music bands. They also featured a Venezuelan singer Ricardo Luque.
The name Cubismo was created from Dizzy Gillespie's piece "Cu-bi Cu-bop", which represents one of the first music mixes of jazz and afrocuban music. Their sound is characterized by multiplicity of instruments and expressively strong dance rhythm produced by a multi-member rhythm section. Besides remakes of standard jazz pieces, popular and traditional Cuban songs, they perform their own pieces.

The legendary Cubismo's CD, recorded partly in „Egrem“studio in Havana , and partly in Zagreb. For almost a month, a team of 13 people stayed in Cuba and recorded the album with the members of Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Juan de Marcos Gonzales on tres (the Cuban guitar), vocalists Teresa Garcia and Caturla, Manuel „Puntillita“ Licea and Amadito Valdez on timbales, together with a number of less famous but top-quality Cuban musicians recorded five songs with Cubismo. The remaining material was recorded after returning to Zagreb, with Nelson Hernadez as an arranger and producer.
So far the album has received the record number of nominations for the „Porin“Award (Croatian "Grammy") - 13 nominations. Cubismo was awarded five.

The shortage of development land makes it necessary to recover old spaces. The solutions chosen are many and varied, ranging from a total change of function to an adaptation of the old use, according to the specific problems of each case. This volume presents the different schools and tendencies within the current world of architectural rehabilitation. Despite their plurality, the proposals contained here are characterized by the fact that they integrate the new needs with a maximum respect for the existing structures and concepts.

On their 14th album, Club Nocturne, The Yellowjackets explore nearly every facet of their personality with their most vocal-oriented offering to date. Heavyweight vocalists Kurt Elling, Brenda Russell, and Jonathan Butler guest on several tracks, and the band's ease at crafting suitable sonic auras to support the diverse set of guests is wonderful. With Elling, they concoct a bluesy drag on "Up from New Orleans" as he slurs the lyrics in a faux southern drawl. They shift gears dramatically on the beautifully impressionistic "All Is Quiet," which also features wonderful playing by saxophonist Bob Mintzer and pianist Russell Ferrante. On the wistful "Even the Pain," Butler croons a soulful ballad against a South African-inspired anthem. The ever-poised Brenda Russell graces the melancholy "Love and Paris Rain" with bewitching conviction. But it's in the instrumentals where The Yellowjackets have their finest moments. From the funky "The Evening News," which features drummer Will Kennedy and bassist Jimmy Haslip locking an air-tight groove in classic Mike Clark/Paul Jackson fashion, to the pastoral "Automat," which has Mintzer and Ferrante engaging in some Weather Report inspired telepathy, these are melodically rich compositions with burnished execution. --John Murph

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Besides being a fascinating experiment in musical cross-pollination, the music on this disc spectacularly succeeds both from the standpoint of pure musical genius and as a demonstration of jazz's ability to turn (somewhat) mundane materials (in this case mainly sixties ska and rocksteady tunes) into pure alchemic gold, in the hands of the right players. And that's the key to the success of this disc: both the principals' bona fides as authentic Jamaican pop icons, each having been an integral and essential part of the explosion of pre-reggae music that eventuated in the full glory of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and their absolute mastery of the jazz idiom. That they could magically meld such disparate music materials into one entirely captivating whole bespeaks both their authenticity as original practitioners of Jamaican pre-reggae pop and as stellar jazz improvisers. Really, this disc is the best of both worlds: It centers on that mysterious and mesmeric ska/rocksteady beat, all the while magically expanding its boundaries into authentic jazz territory on account of the leaders' brilliant improvisational talents. Don't miss out on the protean talents of Monty Alexander and Ernest Ranglin, two master of Jamaican music, fully on display here. -- J. Dennis "Longboard jazzer"

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Очередное произведение щедрого на выдумки и поиски пианиста Монти Александера, которого вообще не понятно к исполнителям какого стиля музыки относить. Известен, например, его альбом импровизаций на темы песен Боба Марли. На этот раз он выбрал в качестве основы музыку середины 60-х — родившуюся на Ямайке музыку ска, предка рэггей. С этой целью он пригласил для записи, надо думать, одного из отцов ска гитариста Эрнеста Ранглина. Следует признать: музыка эта слушается с большим удовольствием. Не знаю, правда, сколь целиком она покоится в ложе собственно джаза, но джаза в ней достаточно много. Пульсирующий ритм ска создает основу для импровизаций пианиста, гитара же Ранглина работает скорее в рамках ямайской традиции. Наиболее яркая пьеса — “Row Fisherman”, в которой и можно найти квинтэссенцию всего проекта. Среди авторов пьес — большей частью мало известные у нас авторы. И только завершающая альбом “Redemption Song” принадлежит Бобу Марли. -- Дмитрий ПОДБЕРЕЗСКИЙ, © 2004 Jazz-Квадрат

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"Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problem raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to create new and better health facilities."

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This is an important book filled with information on starting and running a practice. Case studies and advice from practitioners, big and small, run alongside outlines of all the key topics, to give you an insight into the problems and challenges others have faced when setting up a design business. Accessible and informative, this handbook is the ideal first point of reference when starting a practice.

1. Provides practical advice to show you how to make your business a success
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Professional architects and design professionals thinking about, or in the process of, starting their own practice. Architecture and design students.

Contents
Preface, Introduction, 1 Money, 2 Marketing, 3 Staying Small, 4 Managing Growth, 5 Office Management, 6 IT, Appendices, A Debt collection, B PR - In-house VS Consultant, C Framework Agreements, D Management structure at AEDAS, E Employment Contracts, F Practice administration, G Business models, H Contacts