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Backgrounder: Tina Brooks - True Blue (1960)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
No other category of artist in American history had to fight harder to have his or her creativity recognized than the jazz musician. This war was waged on three fronts—with themselves, with the culture and with their record label. If any one of these three battles was lost, the other two often collapsed as well. In the 1940s and '50s, the battle with one's self meant steering clear of drug addiction. The battle with the culture was the struggle to ...
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Backgrounder: Tina Brooks, 'Back to the Tracks'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tina wasn't his real name. When Harold Brooks was young, he was nicknamed Teeny, which at some point wound up as Teena and then Tina. Between 1958 and 1961, the tenor saxophonist recorded five hard bop albums for Blue Note as a leader. There were plenty of Blue Note sideman dates as well. Back to the Tracks was recorded in September and October 1960 but not released until 1998, when producer Michael Cuscuna found the tapes in the Blue Note ...
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Recording Artist And Songwriter Sylvia Brooks' anticipated Release 'Signature' On May 30th!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this—Signature (Rhombus Records)—her fourth album, she embraces the most challenging role of all, defining herself with a set of beautifully crafted original songs. Her evocative lyrics and emotionally direct delivery imbue the music with hard-won authenticity. Whether looking back with wry affection on her walk-on-the-wild-side youth or lamenting a lost love, Brooks brings ...
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Columbia Pike Blues Festival Featuring Vintage#18, Stacy Brooks, Sol Roots And More Set for June 18-20
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CapitalBlues News
Columbia Pike Blues Festival is one of Arlington Virginia’s most highly-anticipated events. This year a hybrid three-day Columbia Pike Blues Festival Weekend (Friday to Sunday, June 18th, 19th and 20th, 2021) combines live-streaming concerts and ticketed outdoor performances designed to help get everyone back into a summer groove! Three days of streaming and live concerts spotlight fantastic performers including: Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage#18 A retro-soul sound, with whiskey-soaked vocals, Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage #18 deliver hard-driving blues rhythms. Vintage#18 has ...
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"The Arrangement" By Sylvia Brooks Named Jazz Vocal CD Of The Month by Jazz Station / Arnaldo Desouteiro
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
From Jazz Noir to Technicolor, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks reveals a vivid array of new emotional hues on her third album, The Arrangement, a beautifully intimate collaboration with the talents of brilliant Los Angeles arrangers. Besides beautiful originals ("Maybe I'm A Fool," “Sweet Surrender," “What Was I Thinking," three inspired songs to which she contributed as lyricist), Brooks offers surprising renditions of “Body And Soul" (with a beautiful flugel solo by Ron Stout) and “Cold Cold Heart", along with haunting ...
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From Jazz Noir to Technicolor, Jazz Vocalist Sylvia Brooks Reveals a Vivid Array of New Emotional Hues on her Gorgeous Third Album, "The Arrangement"
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
With her first two critically acclaimed albums, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks introduced a sensuous jazz-noir sound redolent of femme fatales and tough guys, crooked deals and deep-shadowed urban nightscapes. But no great artist wants to be typecast, and with her third album, The Arrangement, she steps out of the mist and fog into the sunlight, where she reveals herself as a singer at home in just about any narrative. An intimate collaboration with an array of brilliant Los Angeles arrangers, ...
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CAA Head Of Music Rob Light Remembers Bobby Brooks
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HypeBot
By Rob Light Bobby Brooks was, by all accounts, both a passionate advocate for artists and that rarest of all commodities, a truly good person. Today, on the 25th anniversary of his passing, in the same helicopter crash that killed Stevie Ray Vaughn and 2 others, Rob Light, who guides CAA's music division with his own impressive passion and grace, remembers his friend. August 26, 2015 Tomorrow is the 25th Anniversary of a tragic day. On that day, 25 years ...
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Sylvia Brooks Explores The Noir Side Of Jazz In New CD Release "Restless"
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Sylvia Brooks
LOS ANGELES, CA: Acclaimed jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks returns with her second genre-busting release Restless, exploring the hungers that haunt us, the passions that drive us and the compulsions that send us careening deliciously close to the edge of the abyss. Initial discussions with arranger and producer Kim Richmond brought forth several ideas. “I wanted to take a set of songs—this set of songs—and give them more of an urban, street-like feel.” Recalling an incident several years ago that saw ...
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JazzSnaps: Randy Brooks (1946)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Randy Brooks played trumpet like Harry James. Lots of pep and power with plenty of bent notes. Brooks recorded with Hal Kemp in the late 1930s, Claude Thornhill in '42 and Les Brown in '43 and '44. In 1945, Brooks formed a band that included tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and Getz's vocalist wife Beverly Byrne. The band recorded until 1947, the year of one of Brooks' biggest hits, Tenderly. But swing was his thing at a time when fans were ...
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Jazz Bridge presents Jeannie Brooks at the Cheltenham Art Center on November 2nd
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Jim Miller
Appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham, PA on November 2, 2011 will be jazz vocalist Jeannie Brooks with pianist Sean Gough, bassist Steve Varner, and drummer Doug Hurlinger. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For more info: 215-517-8337. Singer Jeannie Brooks has been performing in Philly, New York and Europe for many years. Coming from a prominent musical family and raised on gospel, rhythm & blues and all the jazz ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Ancestral Shadows
From: Accolades Of TimeBy Ky Brooks
