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Mélange

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Talk To Me; Guilty; Feel Like Makin’ Love; Bella Nola; Chain of Fools/Unchain My Heart; It Is What It Is; Summertime/Moondance; Let’s Make Love; Song For You.

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Louise Cappi: Mélange

Read "Mélange" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Vocalist Louise Cappi's recording Mélange is a musical collection of short stories, each cast as uniquely and differently as if they were written by a Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Márquez. Each selection is carefully curated, right down to the production, to achieve a given end. The title is apt as each of these songs ...

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Melange

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1. Squib Cakes (4:43) 2. Melange (4:58) 3. Darkness (5:11) 4. Short Takes (7:20) 5. Miles II (5:29) 6. Paella (5:42) 7. Sunday Morning (5:31) 8. Beloved (5:35) 9. T.O.P. (6:37) 10. Patois (4:58) 11. Windy City (4:47)

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


He was part of the crowd surrounding Wynton Marsalis’ jazz revival in the late ‘80s, yet bassist Lonnie Plaxico has been seen in the spotlight far too little during the past decade. Yet, with a resume that includes work as a musical director for Cassandra Wilson and an inclination for the genre-bending grooves of the M-Base ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by Jim Santella


Experience has taught Lonnie Plaxico that a tenor saxophone and trumpet front line works best. His 6th recording as a leader combines straight-ahead, modern mainstream, and Tower Of Power funk. At 40, the bassist has paused to reflect on which jazz styles are meaningful; his session includes variety with significance. Plaxico writes out the arrangements in ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by David Adler


Lonnie Plaxico’s Blue Note debut is similar in thrust to last year’s Emergence (Savant). The emphasis is on funk, yet the frequent complexity of Plaxico’s writing harks back to his M-Base roots, especially on tunes like “Short Takes," “T.O.P.," “Patois," and the title track. Apparently the disc grew out of two different sessions — the first ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The fine bassist Lonnie Plaxico, while still somewhat obscure to many, has now been a hard-working sideman on the jazz scene for some twenty years. He has quietly compiled an impressive resume via Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Von Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie and Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band in earlier years, and M-BASE comrades Greg Osby, Steve ...

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Lonnie Plaxico: Melange

Read "Melange" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Lonnie Plaxico is one of those in-demand bassists, like Peter Washington or Dwayne Burno, who shows up on album after significant album, but, like most bassists, stays in the background. Attempting to gain radio play in the early 1990's, Plaxico led some of his own CD's, but fell into the smooth-jazz format in an effort to ...


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