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Once-Stricken Saxman: Music 'Gave Me My Life'

Source: All About Jazz
August 17, 2008

Ask saxophonist David Sanborn to reel off a list of career achievements, and you'd better get comfortable. It's a long list. Even he looks surprised when he reaches the end of it, and quips, “I split the atom and cured cancer." Sanborn's career spans jazz, rock, pop and R&B. He's played with Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, James Taylor, David Bowie and Carly Simon -- just to name a few. He's won six Grammys, hosted the TV show “Night Music" ...

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Jazzing up Mass: Jim Duff's CD Brings New Life to a Old Form

Source: All About Jazz
August 17, 2008

"Jazz Mass." To many of us, especially those raised in the Roman Catholic church, it sounds like an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. But that's exactly what musician and composer Jim Duff has created and committed to CD. From a musical perspective, a mass consists of six sections. They are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and the Agnus Dei. In his composition, Duff has followed this format, adding his own special section to the end - the Beatus, a ...

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Singer Kelley Johnson's "Home" Debuts

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 16, 2008

"A singer of new spiritual depth...behind the mere excellence of the songs, someone with a passionate world view and an urgent need to tell you about it." -Paul de Barros, Seattle Times Seattle jazz vocalist Kelley Johnson connects with her audience. Twice selected to be a Jazz Ambassador abroad, her quartet auditioned live and was chosen by Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center in 2007, and the Kennedy Center in 2004 for lengthy tours for the U.S. State Department. The Kelley ...

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Blueprints of Jazz CD Series, from Talking House Records

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
August 16, 2008

Talking House Records announces the launch of Blueprints of Jazz, a series of recordings that shines the spotlight on some of the lesser known innovators and style-setters in jazz. The first three volumes of the series, spotlighting drummer Mike Clark, saxophonist Billy Harper, and drummer Donald Bailey, will be released on November 4, 2008. While their names may not be as well known as some, their musical ideas have helped define the sound of jazz as it has developed over ...

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Album of the Week: Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival, Tito Puente and His Orchestra

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
August 16, 2008

Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival Tito Puente & His Orchestra Monterey Jazz Festival Records Listeners often consider an artists recorded catalog to be the defining factor of their career, but in many ways, it presents a limited viewpoint of the artist. Most influential musicians performed thousands of times throughout their careers, and a recorded catalog generally represents a small slice of that picture. Although the professionally recorded material serves as a list of milestones, ...

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Tromboners put Stamps on new disc

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2008

EDWARDSVILLE - Two trombones lead the newly released compact disc, “Bad to the Bone," the collaborative work of local professional music men Brett Stamps and Jim Owens. The smooth, sultry sound of Stamps, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's professor of jazz studies, and Owens, an SIUE music master's degree alumni, on trombones, combined with the rhythm of SIUE faculty members Miles Vandiver on drums, Zeb Briskovich on bass, Reggie Thomas on piano and Rick Haydon on guitar give a whole new ...

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Michael Feinstein's the Sinatra Project CD in Stores September

Source: Special Ops Media
August 15, 2008

Four time Grammy nominee Michael Feinstein returns with The Sinatra Project, his first CD release since 2005's Hopeless Romantics, in stores September 2nd! Feinstein will also be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of his famed club in New York City, Feinsteins's At The Regency, with a week long Sinatra themed celebration during release week. Four time Grammy nominee, singer/pianist Michael Feinstein is poised to release his 24th album, The Sinatra Project, through Concord records September 2, 2008. The new album is ...

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CD: Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 15, 2008

Johnny Griffin & Lockjaw Davis, Live in Copenhagen (Storyville). The hard-charging tenor saxophonists worked in tandem for twenty-six years. This 1984 club date at the Montmarte club two years before Davis's death is typical of the unremitting swing and visceral excitement of their live appearances. The rhythm section is pianist Harry Pickens, bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Kenny Washington, in his mid-twenties and formidable. Griffin's blues “Call It Whatcha Wanna" is a highlight in a set that is itself a ...

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