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Howlin' Wolf - Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited (1972, Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Howlin' Wolf, posthumously inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1980 and then the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, had no right to rock it like this. Not after what he had been through. By the time of his 1972 date at Chicago's Alice's Revisited, he had suffered numerous heart attacks. Two years before, he nearly been killed in an automobile accident, and Wolf's wife Lillie administered dialysis treatments every three days. ...
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Cookin' in the Kitchen Radio Release -- Bringing a Tasty Album of Jazzy Tunes to a National Audience
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Michael Ricci
This September, Anne Mironchik will celebrate the official, national radio release of her first, full-length, jazz CD of original music, “Cookin' in the Kitchen". Or will she? Between now and July 4th, Independence Day, Anne is offering this independently produced album first on Kickstarter.com!. Your purchase there will mean you get the music first, and you get first notice about her official album release celebration and it will allow Anne to aggressively ...
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David Sanchez Tenor Sax Solo on "Home Cookin'"
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Over the past couple of decades, David Sanchez has built a reputation as a modern giant of improvisation in both straight-ahead and Latin Jazz worlds. He built his jazz chops with a number of legendary straight-ahead innovators, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath, and Elvin Jones. These experiences gave him a creative melodic sensibility and a keen ability to respond to spontaneous musical events. Sanchez spent the beginning of his musical career studying percussion, and that knowledge informs his work in ...
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Still Busy, Still Cookin' - Dr. Billy Taylor Begins His 87th Year
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Dr.Taylor presents his Suite for Jazz Piano and Orchestra on his personal website. The new release entitled Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan Live drops 8/28.
billytaylorjazz.com is now featuring Billy's first extended work, Suite for Jazz Piano and Orchestra. Dr. Taylor was commissioned to write the Suite for the Utah Symphony by conductor Maurice Abravanel, back in the 70s, when both men were on the board of the National Endowment for the Arts. After its premiere, with Abravanel conducting, Billy ...
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Mama's Cookin April-May Tour
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All About Jazz
Steadily picking up steam since forming five years ago, Mama's Cookin' is now hotter than ever. Mixing funk rhythms with west African beats, and new age blues with hip-hop style, Mama's Cookin' has created a sound that gives it's urban musical backdrop a wholly fresh and original feel. And it's time to take the show back on the road.
Once jazz students at Colorado's Western State College, the bands that Mama's Cookin' has shared the stage with reads like a ...
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"Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65" by Ken Mathieson on Canongate Books
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All About Jazz
The second installment of Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories provides a fine overview to one of the most exciting periods in the music's development.
Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65 (Canongate Books; $15, paperback; May, 2002); examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the postwar era, hard bob and its offshoot soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day, and remains at the core of the modern-jazz ...
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