This is a movie built around a missed connection, and Moreau's nocturnal wanderings are made unbearably poignant by an exquisite Miles Davis jazz score that became famous in its own right (and is still available on Verve).
In three minutes of exquisite American jazz-inflected samba, it contains everything that is the essence of bossa nova: babes bronzing on Copacabana beach, middle classes swaying in suburban 60s America, ice clinking in whisky, João Gilberto and Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, everything that is simple, soft, sultry, and beginning with "s".
Bill Fay's two exquisite, early-1970s folk-jazz-rock albums – particularly 1971's Time of the Last Persecution – became cult artefacts decades later thanks to the enthusiastic patronage of some famous fans (notable among them Wilco's Jeff Tweedy – indeed, Fay covers Wilco on this album, and Tweedy sings on one song) and long-overdue reissues.
This jazz chamber music is exquisite at its best and pleasantly generic at its worst.
At its best, this jazz chamber music is exquisite, and at its worst pleasantly generic.
He started out as a struggling blind performer in Bamako, burst on to the western music scene with the Malian styles of Soro and worked with American jazz musicians before recording his exquisite semi-acoustic set Moffou three years ago.
Ben Castle, both on his own debut CD, 'Blah Street', and as a member of Dylan Howe's band, made a big impression, and the reconstituted Acoustic Triangle explored the borderland between jazz and European classical music with exquisite poise.
"A Sleepin' Bee" became a gently swinging pop-jazz reverie riding on Mr. Rosenthal's exquisite piano, and "Lover, Come Back to Me," an early Streisand venture into swing, was accelerated into a breakneck jazz turn.
But the music of the pianist and singer Barbara Carroll sustains an exquisite balance between classical refinement and a steady, understated jazz pulse.
The nonprofit enterprise, housed in the Time Warner Center and a few blocks from Marsalis' apartment, hosts two clubs and the Frederick P. Rose Hall, an exquisite space that has graced the world's best jazz artists.
