Aliens In A Bebop Planet is a beautiful jazz portrait in which Roberto Magris plays a musical alien that has landed on a musical planet and excitedly stumbles across a past jazz era full of rich bebop classics. He meticulously gathers some of the best jazz compositions from this space trek and brings them home to investigate, study, then, uses them to become a better jazz musician. So, like an alien that has landed on a bebop planet, Roberto has since been studying in real earnest to recover lost musical treasures then extract the essence of a people and legends in an era gone by but not forgotten. That is not without making his musical contributions from this exciting space trek."The result is a jazz masterpiece! ~ CD Universe
Vocalist Dorothy Doring and pianist and arranger Phil Mattson are seasoned performers and music educators who are always working and improving their craft while continuing to perform with great passion and technique. Their beautiful duo CD project gives tribute to the great Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Their arrangements and musical interpretations are creative, original and command attention for the serious listener of jazz and cabaret. Their artistic collaboration is one of respect and trust. Their joy for the art of performance is evident on all eleven tracks on this stunning recording. ~ CD Universe
2013's budget-line compilation Playlist isn't a bad sampler of Harry Nilsson's peak, as it's helped considerably by the inclusion of his '60s and '70s staples "One," "Everybody's Talkin'," "Me and My Arrow," "Without You," "Coconut," "Jump Into the Fire," and "You're Breakin' My Heart." Apart from these, the collection favors his softer material and crooned classics, which is good enough for a budget-line collection but can't quite be considered a definitive Nilsson retrospective. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine