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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies

Read "The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies" reviewed by John Ephland


It's rare that a collection of songs that stay the course with a theme from track to track can hold interest. Especially when the tunes are so spare in execution, essentially simple love songs, performed by a collection of trios who maintain distinct musical personalities. Such is the case with The Magic And The Mystery.

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies

Read "The Magic & The Mystery Of The Piano Trio: Ballads & Lullabies" reviewed by John Ephland


It's rare that a collection of songs that stay the course with a theme from track to track can hold interest. Especially when the tunes are so spare in execution, essentially simple love songs, performed by a collection of trios who maintain distinct musical personalities. Such is the case with The Magic And The Mystery.

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News: Recording

Release Of Previously Unknown Live Performance By Dorothy Donegan

Release Of Previously Unknown Live Performance By Dorothy Donegan

The music on this CD Dorothy Donegan Live at the King of France Tavern, is being released for the very first time. It was recorded live at the King Of France Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland in 1978. Bassist Bill Nelson and drummer Bill Reichenbach, two sidemen who were well aware that they had to be very ...

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Article: Album Review

Warren Vache Quintet: Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter

Read "Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter" reviewed by John Ephland


There's lots of life to this recording. Veteran trumpeter Warren Vache knows a thing or two about an old friend, mentor Benny Carter. With The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter we take a step back in time even as we venture forth into the present. A present that finds cornetist Vache's style and personage slightly ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume lll

Read "Paul Motian Trio 2000 + Two: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume lll" reviewed by Charles Walker


Paul Motian Trio 2000 + TwoLive at the Village Vanguard, Volume IIIWinter & Winter2011 It almost seems like a challenge to the critical establishment: return to the scene of your greatest early-career triumph, 40 years later, surrounded by active musicians instead of legends, and see what happens. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tamela D'Amico Graces the Stage at Catalina Jazz Club for One Night Only - April 11, 2010

Tamela D'Amico Graces the Stage at Catalina Jazz Club for One Night Only - April 11, 2010

Take a recipe perfected by Frank Sinatra.... mix equal parts of Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand, a teaspoon of Ella Fitzgerald...add a dash of Peggy Lee and you've got a hot fresh talent named Tamela D'Amico. This is an artist that brings a delicious and surprising twist to the world of jazz. Just one taste and ...

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News: TV / Film

Scorsese, Robertson Waltz on With 'Shutter'

Nontraditional score for dark thriller is longtime friends' latest collaboration “The Last Waltz" may have been a festive parting for the members of the Band, but for Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, it was the opening number. Since directing Robertson and his bandmates in that famed 1978 concert film, Scorsese, 67, and Robertson, 66, have been ...

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News: Technology

FCC Expected to Announce Support of Net Neutrality Monday

Federal regulators next week are expected to seek to turn controversial “net neutrality” principles into formal rules intended to give the nation’s computer users the right to use whatever services and devices they like without interference from their ISPs. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is widely expected to announce during a speech on Monday at the Brookings ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody / Naxos, Vol. 1

Read "The Charles Ives Songs Series 2: Theo Bleckmann and Kneebody /  Naxos, Vol. 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Fortunate for the recently completed cycle of songs by Charles Ives on Naxos' Charles Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 are Theo Bleckmann's re-imaginings of 12 of Ives' better known vocal compositions, Twelve Songs by Charles Ives. These two releases provide stark contrast between traditional and progressive performances of not only Ives, but of “art songs" in general. ...

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Article: Album Review

Nicole Herzog: Time Will Tell

Read "Time Will Tell" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Slight and striking, the coquette-voiced German Nicole Herzog has the stones to lead her own septet on Time Will Tell. Rather than opting for a trio or quartet format as her ride, Herzog employs the “little big band" concept developed and perfected by Miles Davis with his famous 1949 nonet and 1958 sextet. ...


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