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Toronto Guitarist-Composer James Brown Returns To Recording After Decade-Plus Break On "Song Within The Story," Due March 18 On NGP Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Guitarist-composer James Brown returns from a 13-year recording hiatus with the fetching Song Within the Story, set for a March 18 release on NGP Records. Brown’s fourth album, and his first since 2009’s Sevendaze, finds him helming his Toronto-based working trio featuring bassist Clark Johnston and drummer Anthony Michelli. Respected tenor saxophonist Mike Murley joins the band on three of the album’s 10 tracks—eight of which are original compositions that document Brown’s ongoing intermarriage of jazz and classical music, while ...
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Victoria Blythe Releases James Brown's I Feel Good On New Five-song Ep
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Victoria Blythe
On August 1, Universal Pictures released the James Brown biopic “Get on Up.” In recognition of this event and for airplay in connection with it, acclaimed SF Bay Area singer Victoria Blythe released her new cover of James Brown's “I Got You (I Feel Good)”. Blythe slows down and heats up Brown's classic track with just her sultry, nimble voice, dressed in nothing but a stand-up bass. Blythe is releasing the track as a download only, as part of a ...
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Mingus, McCartney, James Brown, AC/DC Among 27 Recordings to Enter Grammy Hall of Fame 2013
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HypeBot
The Recording Academy has announced the newest additions to its Grammy Hall Of Fame collection of recordings. With 27 new titles, the list currently totals 933 and is on display at the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live. 2013 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees range from AC/DC's Back In Black album to Frank Sinatra's recording of “Theme from New York, New York." Also added are Billy Joel's “Piano Man," Paul McCartney & Wings' album Band On The Run, Ray Charles' “Hit ...
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International All-Star Lineup Pays Tribute to a Legend in Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown at the Annenberg Center
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AAJ Staff
Philadelphia, PA: The Boston Globe calls them “a pancontinental Funk-soul supergroup." All About Jazz proclaims they are simply “explosive." On Sunday, November 20 at 7 PM, the legendary Pee Wee Ellis and an ensemble of international music greats, kick off the 11/12 Annenberg Center African Roots series with Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown. Paying homage to the “Godfather of Soul," this extraordinary lineup featuring Maceo Parker, Vusi Mahlasela and Cheikh Lo, celebrates the points at ...
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James Brown: The Singles
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If there's one artist who's most responsible for fusing jazz, gospel and R&B—and inventing a new form of high-octane soul in the process—it's James Brown. From 1956 to 1981, Brown's trampoline rhythms, high-pitched squeals and horn-fed dance steps lifted soul to a new level while crystallizing the spirit of the civil rights movement and sexual revolution. But Brown (1933-2006) was more than music. He was an electrifying performer whose stage presence, dance steps and artistic courage generated awe. Deeply influenced ...
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Flutist, Bill McBirnie, with James Brown!
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All About Jazz
The subject line may appear to be incredible. Nonetheless, Bill has uploaded an interesting video on YouTube playing with a classic James Brown track, “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose". Of course, those of you familiar with Bill's flute work will recognize that he also likes to swing. So, in addition, he has uploaded a video of him playing with a classic Oscar Peterson track, “C Jam Blues". This clip is also about 4 minutes in length and it ...
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Still Black, Still Proud: African Tribute to James Brown at Kimmel Center
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All About Jazz
Kimmel Center Presents brings a welcoming respite from the dog days of summer with weekly Global Grooves world music dance parties in Perelman Theater. Global Grooves series showcases a hot lineup of international bands in the Perelman Theater, which is transformed into a nightclub with an open dance floor and cash bar. Pancontinental funk/soul ensemble Still Black, Still Proud delivers an explosive African Tribute to James Brown on Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. The extraordinary line-up ...
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In Tense Times, James Brown Stays Cool
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Michael Ricci
James Brown in the '60s' shows how the Godfather of Soul calmed Boston
James Brown became a powerful symbol of black culture, thanks to such hits as “Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud" and “I Got You (I Feel Good)."
On April 5, 1968, James Brown stood as a voice of reason and restraint in a city on the edge of rampage. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated the day before in Memphis, Tenn., ...
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Judge Gives a Go-Ahead to James Brown Auction
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All About Jazz
The personal possessions of the soul singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Soul," will be auctioned
On Thursday as scheduled after an appeals court judge declined on Monday to block the sale. Christie's, the New York auction house, will offer nearly 350 items, including hair curlers, several performance outfits and a green vinyl sofa, in a sale expected to fetch up to $2 million.
Judge Jasper M. Cureton of South Carolina appeals court said, however, that the South Carolina ...
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