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Daptone Re-Release Rare Pax Nicholas (of Fela’S Africa 70) LP
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All About Jazz
The story of Na Teef Know De Road of Teef could have ended 35 years ago.
Fela Kuti conga player and background singer Nicholas Addo-Nettey, or Pax Nicholas (he appeared on all of Fela’s Africa 70 albums between 1971 and 1978), released two LPs for the Tabansi Label with the Martin Brothers Band from Portharcort, Nigeria: 1971’s Mind Your Own Business and the aforementioned Na Teef Know De Road of Teef, in 1973. The latter, made with Africa 70 musicians ...
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New "Environmental Sound" Hemisphere Released
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All About Jazz
New Downloadable Format for Geoffrey Armes' Latest Musical Creation The new release from Geoffrey Armes represents a number of ‘firsts’ for the UK born NYC/Berlin residing composer. Not only is it his first ‘live’ recording but it is the first he is offering for sale via download on his own GeoffreyArmes.com website. He is also introducing a new concept of ‘environmental music’ where the sonics of a specific live environment are melded with subsequent overdubs and the imagined space of ...
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Lindsey Horner: Working Hard on Undiscovered Country
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All About Jazz
Lindsey Horner will be releasing his latest project, “Undiscovered Country" on ArtistShare in March of 2010. The band has already begun rehearsing the music for the new album. The project features a stellar lineup of diverse musicians, coming from all types of musical backgrounds, to create a musical landscape of fantasticly unique instrumentation. In Lindsey's own words: Saxophonist Erwin Vann, a native of Antwerp, Belgium, currently living in Brussels. I have known Erwin since 1988 and he was a part ...
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Vocalist Pamela Rose's New CD - "Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era" - Due October 13
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Terri Hinte Publicity
For the last five years, San Francisco jazz and blues vocalist Pamela Rose has been investigating the music of women songwriters—particularly those of the Tin Pan Alley and classic blues eras—in her dynamic live shows. Both she and her audiences responded strongly to the repertoire, but Rose was surprised to realize that “even though we love and revere these songs, we don’t know the writers’ names.” Determined to bring these women and their contributions into the limelight, Pamela Rose has ...
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