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Who Was Eddie Fisher?

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 30, 2016

With the stunning deaths this week of Carrie Fisher on Dec. 27 and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, the following day, the media has been awash in articles on Star Wars, cocaine abuse, extra-marital affairs on the set of Star Wars, depression, Singin' in the Rain, Tammy and the Bachelor, drinking, Elizabeth Taylor and whether a mother can die of a broken heart one day after the death of her daughter. All but forgotten in this frenzy is Eddie Fisher, the ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Eddie Fisher - The Promise

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 26, 2012

Today's Audio Archive post revisits a rare session from guitarist Eddie Fisher, the guitarist and East St. Louis native who's best known for the jazz/funk albums The Next One Hundred Years and The Third Cup. Fisher, who died in 2007, never really achieved major stardom, but has become something a cult figure over the past ten years, thanks in large part to DJs and crate diggers who discovered his music and spread the word. Perhaps the most obscure item in ...
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Debut CD From Critically-Acclaimed Singer-songwriter Tora Fisher Set For Release June 5th

Source: Muse Media
March 14, 2012

"Tora displays the depth to rally the masses with keenly written lyrics and expressive vocals."—Billboard New York City singer/songwriter Tora Fisher found her voice -and salvation- through heartache and loss. After all, it's not many people who like Tora, walk away as the sole survivor of a tragic plane crash. In her debut CD, SPILLING OVER, a passionate ode to these very themes, Tora explores these feelings track by track and word by word, having written or co-written all the ...
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Fisher brings Nat "King" Cole home to Las Vegas

Source: Shelley Fisher
December 8, 2011

By Jerry Fink Shelley Fisher spent 23 years entertaining fans around the world. Today the world comes to hear the Nat King Cole soundalike at The Mirage's classy Baccarat Bar lounge. “I had made the decision in '98 to return to the United States," said Fisher. “You get tired traveling, living in hotel to hotel every month. I believed it was time to make the move." But because of personal reasons, the move didn't take place until 2000. He chose ...
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Art Pepper: Blues for the Fisherman

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 14, 2011

Laurie Pepper, Art Pepper's widow, has just released a four-CD set of Pepper performing in London at Ronnie's Scott's on June 27 and 28, 1980, two years before the alto saxophonist's death. It may well be the finest recording of late Pepper released on Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste label. There are two reasons for this: First, despite Pepper's history of frayed nerves on stage, he was remarkably at ease in front of this British audience, which is reflected in the ...
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Art Pepper - Blues for the Fisherman Sampler (Widow's Taste, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
June 13, 2011

This is a one disc sampler of a planned four compact disc set of alto saxophonist Art Pepper's run at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London during 1980. There were a couple of LP's released of this material on Mole Records, but due to contractual obligations, Pepper could not be noted as the leader of the ensemble. This sampler from the material sets the matter straight, giving credit to Art Pepper's band with Milcho Leviev on piano, Tony Dumas on ...
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"Art Pepper: Blues for the Fisherman / Complete," Vol. VI in the "Unreleased Art" Series, to be Released by Widow's Taste Records June 14

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 18, 2011

"The Twelve Bars of the Decade." Blues for the Fisherman was hailed by one jazz journalist as just that when four of these tracks were released in the U.K. in 1980 by Mole Jazz. That LP remained at the top of the British jazz charts for well over a year, so Mole eventually released a second album from the same session. Fans all over the world have worn those LPs out and have been clamoring for 30 years to hear ...
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Palmer, Garramone and Fisher's Organ Trio: Permutations

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
March 31, 2011

Organist Jeff Palmer and his sidekicks Devin Garramone (alto) and John Fisher (drums) demonstrate that to do a good thing in jazz doesn't always involve taking a long leap into the future of music. On Permutation (Rank 604) they take the organ trio format and place it in a contemporary funk-jazz context. Jeff Palmer plays a compelling modern Hammond style that owes something to Larry Young, Charles Earland and John Medeski in that he has advanced harmonic line development going ...
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Dave Fisher Founding Member and Lead Singer of the 1960s Folk Group the Highwaymen Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2010

Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962, has died. He was 69. Fisher died Friday at his home in Rye, N.Y., of myelofibrosis, a rare blood disease, family friend Nicole Fiftal said Wednesday. “The original Highwaymen, along with the Kingston Trio and, later, Peter, Paul and Mary, were among those responsible for popularizing ...
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Dave Brubeck & Joao Carlos Martins at Avery Fisher Hall

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2009

This October get ready for some fun, as conductor João Carlos Martins brings the Bachiana Filarmnica from Brazil to Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Joining Mr. Martins and his orchestra are jazz legend Dave Brubeck and his son, trombonist Chris Brubeck.

The “meeting” will be October 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. It includes a program of Brazilian works along with Dave Brubeck’s own compositions. The night begins with “Ouverture Opera Amaznia” by Mateus Araujo, followed by Villa-Lobos’ “Bachiana Brasileira ...
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