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Instrument: Guitar, electric
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by Jerry D'Souza
Calvin Newborn New Born Yellow Dog Records
The name Newborn is synonymous with Memphis just as Presley or King or Hayes is. The Patriarch Phineas (Finas) had two sons, Phineas and Calvin. The first made the piano his instrument of choice, the second took to playing the guitar. In sum they were one of the leading families of jazz in Memphis. Music took the brothers to New York. On his return to Memphis, Calvin found that ...
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by Jim Santella
As the younger brother of gifted pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr., guitarist Calvin Newborn fell in love a long time ago with the same music and came to express it with his own voice. Jazz and blues run side by side in his interpretations.
A lyrical guitarist who takes the room by the force of his emotions, Newborn pours it on with New Born. His guitar sings passionately with statements about life and love and the way we feel ...
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by Bridget A. Arnwine
The album may be titled New Born, but Calvin Newborn, famed Memphis-born guitarist and brother of the late jazz legend Phineas Newborn, has proven on his Yellow Dog Records release that a newborn can indeed have plenty of soul. The music on this album feels at some points like you should be listening while watching from a velvet-seated auditorium--and at other points like you should be swaying your hips and slow-dragging at a juke joint in Mississippi. With a septet ...
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