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Jazz this week: Shawn Maxwell's New Tomorrow, The People's Key, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 3, 2017

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a couple of multi-artist performances of experimental music, an up- and-coming new contemporary jazz quintet from Chicago, plus some local favorites. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, August 2 This week's “Grand Center Jazz Crawl" has trumpeter T.J Müller at KDHX's Magnolia Cafe; the jam session with bassist Bob Deboo and friends at Kranzberg Arts Center; and trumpeter Kasimu Taylor at The Dark Room. Also on Wednesday, ...
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ESL Music Announces Shawn Lee "Synthesizers in Space" July 24

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 12, 2012

“For me, being creative is a natural bodily function, like breathing and eating,” Shawn Lee says from his London studio as he reflects on the whirlwind effort and inspiration he experienced in developing his latest album, Synthesizers in Space. It began at a music store called Switched On in Austin, TX and the discovery of a vintage “mystery-box” instrument hidden amongst the old synths and organs that created sounds and textures unlike anything currently in his sonic arsenal. The result ...
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Sharon Sable with E. Shawn Qaissaunee in Kennett Square on Wed. April 4th!

Source: Jim Miller
March 15, 2012

Appearing on Wednesday, April 4th at the Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, PA (19348) to celebrate National Jazz Appreciation Month will be singer Sharon Sable with the E. Shawn Qaissaunee Quartet. Showtime: 7:30 pm. One show. Tickets: $10/$5 students. No advance sales. For info: Call 484-732-8295. Sharon Sable is “drawing crowds and sending them home happy" says the Somers Point Jazz Society. Already a veteran of the music business, Sable has recorded with Babyface, Boyz II Men, Pink ...
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Calvin Keys "Shawn-Neeq" Reissued on 180g Vinyl

Source: Tompkins Square
January 9, 2012

Calvin Keys' debut Shawn-Neeq will be reissued on 180g vinyl LP tomorrow, Jan 10, on Tompkins Square. The LP is now available for purchase at tompkinssquare.com Originally released on the influential label Black Jazz in 1971, guitarist Calvin Keys' debut is a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin's singular guitar stylings, coupled with a heady collaborative feel that inhabits so many early '70's jazz recordings, are all on beautiful display. 40 years later, Tompkins ...
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Enter the "Shawn Maxwell - Urban Vigilante" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2011

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Lapis Luna featuring Shawn Aileen Clark at Smalls on May 20

Source: Shawn Aileen Clark
April 13, 2011

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Shawn Bell and His Hard-Bopping Bone: "Things yet Unknown"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
March 1, 2011

You don't need to be re-told this, but it is OK to revisit an historically older style if you are sincere, dedicated to it, have something to say in its idiom and do it convincingly. That would pretty much sum up Shawn Bell [on his recent Things Yet Unknown (self-released) album], his trombone, his compositions, his band and the Blue Note Classic Hard-Bop sound. It's a sextet with trombone, trumpet, fluegelhorn, piano, bass and drums. The three-horn front line lends ...
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One Track Mind: Shawn Bell Quintet, "Requiem for Lovers" (2010)

Source: Something Else!
February 3, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron The young trombonist Shawn Bell didn't attend one of those big name prestigious music schools in the Northeast, nor is a player in the hustle and bustle of New York City's intense jazz scene, but just listen to his debut album from last year Things Yet Unknown and you could easily be fooled into thinking so. Likewise, he didn't make an album full of golden jazz standards—-only two of the seven cuts are covers—-but again, Bell ...
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Shawn Maxwell’S Ambitious Invention Puts a Bold Spin on Jazz Convention

Source: Mixed Media Promotion
October 7, 2008

It’s both interesting and revealing that Shawn Maxwell has decided to coin his new sophomore effort similarly to his debut. He called his first album back in 2005 Originals, and he’s labeled his brand new set, Originals: II. The title choice is revealing and logical; Maxwell is indeed an “original,” and his second woodwind-based, multi-instrumental work is as unique as the first and about as original as contemporary jazz gets.

It’s not often that jazz fans come across this kind ...
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Shawn Mullins:honeydew

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2008

By: Bill Clifford

There's a deep sense of character in the songs of modern day troubadour Shawn Mullins . When his music finally and deservingly reached a mainstream audience with the breakthrough candid storyteller ruminations of 1988's Soul's Core, but 2000's follow-up, Beneath The Velvet Sun, was marred by far to many loops, samples and other effects laden production gimmicks that hid his vocals and lyrics. He teamed with like-minded songwriters Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge for the 2003 spin-off ...
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