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C.P. Love
Sam Cook, Elmo James, and Johnny Taylor all became the foundation of Blues that inspired CP to create his own style. Filled with soul and high energy, CP delivers his music with a tremendous amount of feeling through a clear soulful voice that was made for Blues. The only son of Roy and Corine Love, CP took to music as a teenager. Local bands solicited CP's guitar playing and he found himself with professional gigs as early as age 15. Being too young to legally enter, let alone play in a club, on occasion when police would stop in during one of their gigs, CP would quickly disappear and wait out back till authotities left.
CP began opening for top acts in the early 70's for entertainers such as BB King and Fats Domino. He has also performed on prominent stages across the country as a headliner himself. CP has performed at many Blues and Jazz Festivals, including New Orleans' famous Jazz Fest as well as appearances from California to New York and to Canada at the Montreal Blues Featival, with over 250,000 people in attendance. CP has been compared to greats such as Sam Cook and Otis Redding. However, it's his originals, Stubborn Girl", "True Blue" and "Secondline Home" that are real gems. CP's music style range from Blues and Soul to R&B and Raggae, and his song list is extensive including standards and originals. While CP"s recordings are awesome, nothing can compare to seeing him perform live! CP's Southern Soul style is upbeat and unforgetable.
In addition to working with his band, CP founded Trip City Jingles, and is president of Pierre' Publishing. CP is currently working on several projects, writing, arranging, and recording. Putting his career on hold after Hurricane Katrina, his new CD "My Homeland" is now complete and ready for release in August '07.
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Alien Love Songs: Midnight Channel’s Cosmic Jazz Odyssey Featuring 'Shelly'
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Midnight Channel
Lethbridge, Alberta’s Midnight Channel aren’t just playing jazz—they’re reimagining it, tearing it apart, and letting the pieces orbit through time, memory, and love. Their new album, Alien Love Songs, is a sprawling, groove-heavy collision of blistering horn lines, meditative melodies, and the emotional messiness of being human. Featuring the monstrous, mystifying focus track “Shelly,” the record explores romantic, platonic, spiritual, and self-love as well as the aching absence of it. It’s as inspired by anime and inside jokes as it ...
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Philadelphia Drummer Tom Cohen Delivers A Love Letter To Brazilian Bossa Nova On 'Embraceable Brazil,' Releasing October 10 On Versa Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Drummer Tom Cohen’s lifelong love affair with bossa nova music culminates with the October 10 release of Embraceable Brazil on Versa Records. More than a decade in the making, Cohen’s sixth album features a panoply of creative, able-bodied musicians in various combinations, adding up to a stunning rainbow array of colors, textures, and interpretations in the bossa mode. The very facts of its creation betray Embraceable Brazilas a labor of love on Cohen’s part. The drummer—who has been smitten with ...
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Ashia Ackov Honors Love And Legacy With Poignant Jazz Ballad 'In Time'
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Ashia Ackov
Ashia Ackov Unveils Sultry Jazz Noir Single “In Time” — A Smoky Serenade of Longing and Elegance Jazz vocalist and storyteller Ashia Ackov has released her latest single, “In Time,” a hauntingly beautiful Jazz Noir ballad that evokes the velvet shadows of a bygone era. Released on August 12, 2025, the track is now available for streaming and purchase and will be featured on her upcoming album Irresistible, available exclusively on ashiaackov.com. From the first breathy note, Ackov’s voice glides ...
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Perfection: Bird - Almost Like Being in Love (1952)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In March 1952, producer Norman Granz had Charlie Parker record with a big band for his Clef label. He assembled a stunning collection of New York talent: Jimmy Maxwell, Carl Poole, Al Porcino and Bernie Privin (tp); Bill Harris, Lou McGarity and Bart Varsalona (tb); Charlie Parker, Harry Terrill and Murray Williams (as); Flip Phillips and Hank Ross (ts); Danny Bank (bar); Oscar Peterson (p); Freddie Green (g); Ray Brown (b) and Don Lamond (d), with Joe Lippman conducting his ...
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Perfection: David Allyn - Love Is a Serious Thing (1962)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Frank Sinatra had a soft spot for singer David Allyn. His affection and help in Las Vegas wasn't based on pity. David had suffered psychologically during his service in World War II and went to prison for eight years on drug charges after attempts to self-medicate led to addiction. Sinatra admired Allyn because he was a superb emotional jazz balladeer who also could swing. But they shared more. Both singers had major professional turning points at virtually the same time—in ...
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Announcing '恋愛至上主義 / Love Supremacism' By Pianist Alexander Dubovoy
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Alexander J Dubovoy
Following his first solo album, Portraits Drawn Without You, Alexander Dubovoy is proud to release his new solo album 恋愛至上主義 / Love Supremacism on Adhyâropa Records. It features innovative reinterpretations of jazz standards recorded by recording engineer (and frequent musical collaborator) Hans Bilger in February 2024 in Berlin. The starting point for the album is 恋愛至上主義 (renaishijoushugi), a concept which Alexander first encountered in the Japanese television drama 「恋せぬふたり」(“Koisenu Futari”), a show that radically examines consent in relationships. 恋愛至上主義 translates ...
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Bassist Rodney Jordan Sends A Love Letter To His Hometown With The March 14 Release Of 'Memphis Blue' On Baxter Music Enterprises
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Rodney Jordan, born and raised in the city known as the “Home of the Blues,” rightly channels that heritage on Memphis Blue, his personal tribute to the “soulful people of Memphis,” due to release March 14th on Baxter Music Enterprises. Now based in Tallahassee, Florida, Jordan is joined by his fellow Memphian, trumpeter Melvin Jones, as well as a group of first-rank collaborators who evoke the full spectrum of the South: Atlantan pianist Louis Heriveaux, Charleston-based saxophonist Mark Sterbank, and ...
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Jhelisa Officially Releases Epic New Single 'Purpose Love'
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Peter Quinn
The enigmatic artist Jhelisa has officially released her new single ‘Purpose Love” today on Dorado Records. ‘Purpose Love’ is an epic nine-minute opus that opens with the hypnotic lyric “You are the beauty that lives within the madness, Purpose Love." First debuted via an exclusive listening party on Bandcamp last week, the track is now available across all streaming platforms beginning today, along with two separate versions: ‘Purpose Love’ (Acoustic Lovers Edit) 2:02 and ‘Purpose Love’ (Edit) 4:09. Carried by ...
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Perfection: Barney Kessel - Like Someone in Love
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Soaring is one of Barney Kessel's finest albums of the 1970s. Recorded in August 1976 for Concord, the guitarist was backed by Monty Budwig on bass and Jake Hanna on drums. The entire record is perfect in every way. What I like most is how Kessel is isolated, allowing us to hear how gifted he was as a player and swinger, and how fascinating his chord voicings were. You can hear the full album at Spotify and most major streaming ...
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Backgrounder: Bill Watrous - In Love Again, 1967
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There are trombone albums—and then there are trombone albums. This is the latter, a positively beautiful recording by Bill Watrous, who had a beautiful ballad tone, rivaled only by Urbie Green and a few others. Recorded in New York in 1968 and backed by the Richard Behrke Strings, Bill Watrous's In Love Again: William Russell Watrous was a date album of the highest order. His playing on the ballads was mellifluous, and he had a gorgeous tone and technique. Born ...
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