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Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk

Read "Let's Walk" reviewed by Chris May


Madeleine Peyroux's career took off in 2004 with her second album, Careless Love (Rounder), covering songs by such 20th century greats as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. It was performed with a jazz sensibility, infusions of blues and touches of chanson, and mostly with jazz arrangements. In this respect, it continued the direction set by Peyroux's debut, Dreamland (Atlantic, 1996). Since those early albums, Peyroux's trajectory has evolved. The jazz sensibility, and love of chanson ...

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Jon Herington: City Of Lights

Read "Jon Herington: City Of Lights" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


"City of Lights" has a bit of lineage. From Jon Herington's Pulse And Cadence (ESC, 2008)--which itself is a reissue/repackage of his Japan-only debut album The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (Glass House, 1993)--the song was originally titled “Paris On Mine" and is a musical retort/homage to the John McLaughlin classic “New York On My Mind" [from Electric Guitarist (Columbia, 1978)]. Additionally, the track features the A-List support of Jim Beard, Victor Bailey and Peter Erskine and goes a long way to ...

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Album Review

Jim Beard / Jon Herington: Chunks And Chairknobs

Read "Chunks And Chairknobs" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


The seeds for Chunks and Chairknobs were planted for guitarist Jon Herington and pianist Jim Beard a few years prior to its recording, while they were on a break from their touring duties with Steely Dan. The two took the opportunity to do something they had never done over the course of their 40 plus-year friendship—work up a duo set and mount a short tour together. The lion's share of those resulting arrangements— tackling a mix of Beard originals, Herington ...


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