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The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight Discussed Composition & Song Structure with World Renowned Saxophonist/Composer Marion Meadows

Source: entertainmentPR
December 16, 2009

Minneapolis - One of the hottest and most unique celebrity driven Podcast to hear some of Billboard's chart topping award winning music producers, composers, arrangers, vocalists and engineers discuss their production techniques and preferences, influences, song structure, music instruments, genre, style and their craft, state of the art recording equipment, background and upcoming projects is: The Producer's Corner with Spud Too Tight on ITunes Podcast Edgy R&B/Smooth Jazz Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight is also prolific and gifted on keyboards, ...

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Tues Double Shot: Skerik

Source: JamBase
December 16, 2009

ATTACK OF THE SAXOPHONIC COLOSSUS!

Skerik In the tradition '70s FM radio, JamBase's Tuesday tradition offers readers a pair of fab tunes from an artist worthy of the Double Shot treatment.

This week we give the nod to Skerik, one of the most versatile, overall gifted and downright adventurous musicians on the planet right now (a view held by not a few folks, including JamBase's Associate Editor Dennis Cook). He's a musical mad hatter and a fizzy catalyst for unsafe, ...

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Leftover Salmon: Celebrating 20 Years Part 3

Source: JamBase
December 16, 2009

Welcome to Part 3 of our Leftover Salmon: Celebrating 20 Years feature. JamBase has been working with the Salmon guys, as well as artists they've influenced and been influenced by, to bring fans this intimate look at one of the most important bands to grow out of the jam scene.

Part 1 of our story featured interviews with Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt and a bunch of contemporaries like Yonder Mountain String Band's Ben Kaufmann and Little Feat's Paul Barrere, as ...

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Interview: Ithamara Koorax (Part 2)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 16, 2009

I met Brazilian vocalist Ithamara Koorax for the first time a year ago in New York at an amazing holiday party on Sutton Place. Jazz writer Ira Gitler introduced us. Ithamara was in town briefly to sing and had postponed her flight by a day just to make the soiree, which was softly lit and jammed with jazz legends. Singers Helen Merrill and Annie Ross were there. So were Joe Wilder, Teddy Charles, George Wein and about 50 other jazz ...

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Drummer Joey Baron Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 16, 2009

Combining technical acuity with a deep sense of groove, Joey Baron drums with playful exuberance. Throughout his more than 35-year career, he's propelled experimentalists like guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist John Zorn, as well as mainstreamers like vocalist Carmen McRae and saxophonist David Sanborn. He's even played with pop stars David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. But Baron makes no distinctions between gigs, keeping an expansive, welcoming view of music. After leading the groups Barondown, Down Home, and Killer Joey, he's ...

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Interview: Ithamara Koorax (Part 1)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 15, 2009

In 1958, the bossa nova began to expand beyond Brazil and attract international attention, particularly in the U.S. While jazz artists here began adapting the Brazilian folk beat in the 1950s and early 1960s, the bossa nova didn't become a bona fide sensation until the release of Getz/Gilberto in 1964. On that album, Stan Getz was joined by two bossa nova stars, pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim and guitarist Joao Gilberto. Today, of the pair, only Gilberto survives. So last year, ...

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Guitarist B.D. Lenz Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2009

B.D. Lenz began his musical journey at 14, when he was first inspired to learn to play the guitar. Since then, he has gone on to study with such jazz luminaries as guitarists Mike Stern and Vic Juris and recently deceased pianist/educator Charlie Banacos. After graduating from the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, California, Lenz finished his formal musical education at the College of New Jersey, where he graduated with honors. Though he finished his scholarly studies years ago, Lenz has ...

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AAJ Interview with Drummer Paul Wertico: Revised

Source: All About Jazz
December 14, 2009

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