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Ray Charles - Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (2011)
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Something Else!
Ray Charles, sightless and orphaned by age 15, led a life that sounded like a blues song. But the range and scope of his talent could never be contained within one genre, no matter its lasting joys. A gifted performer on the piano, organ, clarinet and alto sax, Charles dabbled at first in Nat Cole-esque trio-jazz, then earned wide accolades while at Atlantic for blending in R&B and gospel influences—perhaps most memorably on his salacious rewrite of “This Little Girl ...
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Ray Charles' "Singular Genius" Compiles 106 Hits and B-Sides
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conqueroo
106 recordings on five compact discs totaling 53 singles are housed in handsome linen- textured collectors' box LOS ANGELES, CA: With the release of Ray Charles' Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles, on November 15, 2011, Concord Records will make available for the first time the artist's collection of ABC-Paramount singles during this prolific period (1960-1972). The digitally remastered deluxe 106-song collection presents the A and B sides of 53 singles, including 11 #1 hits, such Grammy Award winners “Hit ...
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Laszlo Gardony Gets into Odd-Time Signatures and Pianistic Singularity on "Signature Time"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
While you've been doing what ever you've been doing Hungarian-born pianist-composer-bandleader Laszlo Gardony has just completed his ninth album. Signature Time (Sunnyside 4011) is the name of it, which rightfully suggests that this is Laszlo's personal stylistic statement, and also that time signatures will be a factor. Both are quite true. It's a goodly trio part of the time with Laszlo at the piano, John Lockwood on bass, and Yoron Israel at the drums. Tenorist Stan Strickland productively cameos with ...
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"Singular" Portico Quartet Add Stateside Dates; Watch Hypnotic Live Video
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Michael Ricci
“SINGULAR AND TALENTED" (TIME OUT LONDON) PORTICO QUARTET ADD DATES TO FIRST EVER NORTH AMERICAN TOUR UK's Portico Quartet have added new dates to their first ever North American tour supporting Isla (Aug 31/ Real World Records), including stops in Cambridge, MA, Kent, OH, and Montreal. Watch this live footage of Portico Quartet performing “Line" on 'Band on the Wall' in Manchester to see their “Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy" (MOJO) in action ...
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Slow Down Music Fans for Singular Visionaries
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Michael Ricci
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The rule of programming music festivals is to specialize but go lateral. As the organizer, youre usually dealing with that smoky, powdery idea, a scene.
The cosmos around a single artist, or the musical culture of a time and place, or an aesthetic mind-set. You start with particulars, the hooks to hang it on, and then you spread outward.
One obvious example is Bonnaroo, the annual four-day outdoor festival in central Tennessee. The core participants of that festival, ...
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Premiere Performances, Singular U.S. Appearances by International Artists and Unique Productions Highlight 2008 Savannah Music Festival
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All About Jazz
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES, SINGULAR U.S. APPEARANCES BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND UNIQUE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHT 2008 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL Stewart Copeland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Audra McDonald, Wycliffe Gordon, Porter Wagoner & Marty Stuart, Angelique Kidjo, Emerson String Quartet, Cherryholmes, Derek Trucks Band, Beaux Arts Trio, Bla Fleck, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and others contribute to Georgia's largest musical arts event Savannah, Georgia - The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) unveiled its ambitious ...
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Guitarist Rob Levit Free Downloads at AAJ: "Singularity" and "The Traveler"
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz is offering two consecutive days of guitarist/composer Rob Levit's music as free downloads. Today's download, “Singularity" appears on Uncertain Path (2004) and tomorrow's “The Traveler" appears on his 2005 release, Touch the Spirit.
Click here to download both tracks from Rob's page @ AAJ
About Rob Levit
Guitarist, composer and educator Rob Levit has been described by the Ottawa International Jazz Festival as “...one of the finest young guitarists on today's jazz scene." He is the recipient ...
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Premiere Performances, Singular U.S. Appearances by International Artists and Unique Productions Highlight 2008 Savannah Music Festival
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All About Jazz
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES, SINGULAR U.S. APPEARANCES BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND UNIQUE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHT 2008 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL
Stewart Copeland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Audra McDonald, Wycliffe Gordon, Porter Wagoner & Marty Stuart, Angelique Kidjo, Emerson String Quartet, Cherryholmes, Derek Trucks Band, Beaux Arts Trio, Bla Fleck, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and others contribute to Georgia's largest musical arts event Savannah, Georgia - The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) unveiled its ambitious ...
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