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Video: London's Complete Sound of 007
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
British vocalist and entertainer Dame Shirley Bassey is still going strong at 85. Last month, the singer—who recorded three James Bond film themes—performed two of them at the start of the spectacular Sound of 007 concert at London's Royal Albert Hall with conductor Michael Alexander. Last week, Mark Rabin sent along a link to the complete high-resolution concert video. Also taking the stage with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Dodd, were other leading singers and performers. Be ...
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Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Newport 1956 &1958 (4 LPs - #3007)
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Michael Ricci
The Jubilance That Is The Newport Jazz Festival For 60 years, every top name in jazz has seemingly made it up to Newport at least once, if not multiple times. Louis Armstrong was a fixture for many years and two of his complete sets, from the 1956 and 1958 festivals, are being released here in their entirety for the very first time. Impresario extraordinaire George Wein, the catalyst behind the NJF, was (and still is) the perfect matchmaker in deciding ...
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Jon Burlingame on 007 (PT. 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When Skyfall opens in the U.S. on Nov. 9, it will be the 23rd film in the James Bond series. High-intensity action films are a dime a dozen these days, thanks largely to the successful mold pioneered by the Bond films. But the Bond franchise stands for more than just explosions, bridge leaps and car chases. Threaded neatly into each Bond film is music designed to enhance the action and adventure, and burnish the main character's cool and collected demeanor. ...
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Jon Burlingame on 007 (PT. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As I wrote recently in my Wall Street Journal article on the James Bond Theme, men of a certain age love the song with the machine-gun guitar solo. It makes them feel extra guy-ly. But so do some women, according to Louann Brizendine, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of The Male Brain and The Female Brain. Something about yearning to be swept off their feet and why such guys are in such ...
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Led Zeppelin Celebration Day On October 17 With Global Theatrical Release Of Band's 2007 Concert At London's O2 Arena
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1888 Media
Celebration Day Premieres In Four Countries Announced Film To Debut At Ziegfeld Theater In New York On October 9; Press Conference With John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, And Jason Bonham To Precede New York Premiere Hammersmith Apollo To Host London Premiere On October 12 Premieres In Berlin And Tokyo Also Scheduled In Advance Of Global Theatrical Release On October 17 Los Angeles, CA – Led Zeppelin have announced upcoming premieres in four countries for Celebration Day, which documents ...
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Kenny Werner - Lawn Chair Society (2007)
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Something Else!
When I think of the the overlap of jazz and funk, ensembles that come to mind are Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, On The Corner-era Miles, and even some of the smoother offerings out of the CTI label. In more recent times, Medeski Martin and Wood have really been laying it down. If I was to reorganize my record collection by genre, Kenny Werner's Lawn Chair Society would proudly sit beside the other titles on the jazz/funk shelf. The lineup a stellar ...
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Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2007)
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Something Else!
There was a time when I was pretty consumed with, and you could make an argument that it could be considered “obsessed with," Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft legion—the California Guitar Trio, the League of Crafty Guitarists, and various smaller splinter groups. There was something about the shared skills of the many guitarists balancing complex pieces of intricate music, much of it approaching classical in style at times: It grabbed my imagination, filling my head with thoughts of notes dancing between ...
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Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall 1971 (2007)
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Something Else!
There's just something about Neil Young. His present-day persona along with his musical past form a sort of rolling time capsule in my head. Very strange, much like the man himself. This particular album, recorded 1971 at Toronto's Massey Hall, showcases Young and his songwriting at an early career peak. Played on acoustic guitar and sometimes piano, Young definitely had that audience in full control. Many of the songs, new at the time, went on to become part of his ...
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The David Arner Trio: Out/in the Open, 2007
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Pianist David Arner is a musical voice that does not fit easily into the various schools of improvisation that are widely influential among the free school of players. He's managed to forge a path that does not cross directly the Cecil Taylors, the Paul Bleys, the Keith Jarretts, or the Bill Evans influenced players. Not that he has ignored these stylistic landmarks. Clearly not. But he chooses to go his own way. You can hear that quite readily in the ...
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Avishai Cohen - After the Big Rain (2007)
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Something Else!
Reviewers sometimes get too caught up playing the label game: jazz, pop, world (ah, the ambiguous catch-all label), rock, ambient. Whenever a writer struggles with material that lacks a definite musical anchor, I am reminded of the transformation seen through Miles Davis' electric years. Squeaky horns, abusive guitars, fuzzed-out keyboards, all woven together with constantly shifting, obscenely polyrhythmic percussion. It was jazz, pop, rock, ambient, and a handful of other things. Forget the category, nothing sounded like this. Trumpeter Avishai ...
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