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Free MP3 Download: Taylor Eigsti's "Fallback Plan Suite (Part I): Less Free Will" from Let It Come to You

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Download “Fallback Plan Suite (Part I): Less Free Will," a free MP3 from Taylor Eigsti's latest release Let It Come to You.

Download: Less Free Will Taylor Eigsti 5:22 From: Let It Come to You

About Taylor Eigsti With Taylor Eigsti's new CD, Let It Come to You, the pianist-composer-bandleader takes another giant stride forward as a significant new voice in the jazz world, and at 23, he stands tall ...

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Pete Fountain Live in Santa Monica

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Recorded Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on March 16, 1961

“Anytime we got that gang together with Pete, you know, we all laughed and scratched and had fun. We never knew how long it would go or where it would end up, but everybody seemed to like it. It was a ball. And Pete? Everybody loves Pete!" That's super-drummer Jack Sperling, speaking of ad-lib, off-the-top concert in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on March 16, 1961. The gang, ...

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Kevin Hays' Latest Album "The Dreamer"

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Listen to Kevin Hays' The Dreamer and get behind the scenes by participating in his latest ArtistShare project.

The Dreamer is Kevin's first vocal album. This multi-instrumentalist reveals his endless talent in this album! Participating in this project will give you in-depth updates of the creative process of “The Dreamer." You will have access to audio lectures on composition, interviews, demo version of the tracks from “The Dreamer", videos of his performance and rehearsals and many photos! Purchase The Dreamer. ...

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Legendary Career of Guitarist Bob Baine

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Bob Bain was a mainstay of the Hollywood recording studios through the 50s and 60s, appearing nearly as often on acoustic guitar as Howard Roberts did on electric. Henry Mancini regularly highlighted Bain's work on soundtracks and studio albums. Known to a younger generation as guitarist in Doc Severinsen's Tonight Show Band with Johnny Carson for twenty two years. Everyone's heard his famous leads on the titles tracks to The Munsters, Mission Impossible, Batman and Peter Gunn. His name may ...

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Arthur Lee & Love's Blue Thumb Albums Reissued on Collectors' Choice Music

Source: conqueroo
May 9, 2008

Double-album Out Here and False Start, which featured Jimi Hendrix, may unnerve Love's folk-rock legions

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- They recorded one of the most influential albums of the late '60s in the folk-rocking Forever Changes, an album that took 20 years to be fully appreciated and has been recently reissued in a deluxe edition. But the band Love, fronted by tortured genius Arthur Lee, switched musical gears almost immediately after recording its masterpiece. Lee recruited a whole new Love ...

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Ry Cooder Coaxes East L.A. Songbird

Source: Michael Ricci
May 9, 2008

El Chicano's Ersi Arvizu finds her voice.

(Arvizu and The Latin Legends Live shows at the Greek Theater Saturday, May 24, and Sunday, May 25)

Friend for Life

Ersi Arvizu was on vacation in Hawaii a few years ago when she heard that some guy named Ry Cooder was looking for her. She got the news from colleagues who knew her from her long-gone glory days as lead singer of El Chicano, the 1970s East L.A. band famous for her ...

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Free MP3 Download: Luis Mario Ochoa's "Simbiosis" from Momentos Cubanos

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2008

Download “Simbiosis," a free MP3 from Luis Mario Ochoa's latest release Momentos Cubanos.

Download: Simbiosis Luis Mario Ochoa 5:00 From: Momentos Cubanos

About Luis Mario Ochoa On Momentos Cubanos - Luis Mario Ochoa's 4th album and first with his new quintet “the Havana-born, Toronto-based guitarist, vocalist, composer, arranger, bandleader and producer, showcases his virtuosity and versatility with authority. A nominee in 2007 for Canadian Latin Jazz Artist of the Year, Ochoa is ...

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Carly Simon Brazilian Inspired

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2008

Carly released a new album entitled This Kind Of Love on the Starbuck's label (Hear Music) on April 29, 2008. This will be her first album of all original music since 2000. Inspired by and subtly infused with the rhythms of Brazilian music, This Kind of Love explores a wide swath of emotion-romance, reflection, melancholy, anger and humor. It's at once one of Simon's most personal albums as well as one of her most stylistically diverse outings. The CD is ...

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