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Dean Magraw's Red Planet "Space Dust" CD Release Party at Artists' Quarter (St. Paul), May 13-14
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Michael Ricci
Master guitarist Dean Magraw presents his trio, Red Planet, in a stunning new CD, Space Dust, including many original compositions that the band has been playing live since 2003. Space Dust exemplifies the magical direction that these three experienced jazz musicians have continually created. The disc opens with the band setting fire to the Coltrane tune, “Africa," travels through the Jimi Hendrix classic, “Little Wing," Trane's “Saturn," then six original compositions and concludes with a unique interpretation of the “The ...
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Space Dust from the Red Planet
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
In the midst of his battle with lymphona, Dean Magraw and his Red Planet (Chris Bates, Jay Epstein) released Space Dust (GoneJazz, 2009), filled with the trio's celestial wanderings on covers of Hendrix and Coltrane as well as compositions from Dean and Chris. I don't recall if there was a proper CD release since Dean was out of commission through 2009 and much of 2010. The reunion at the Artists Quarter this past weekend thus was a double celebration, of ...
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