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Andy Ballantyne Large Ensemble Release Debut CD "The Sum of the Parts"

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2008

One of the most innovative and unique groups to appear on the Canadian jazz scene in recent years, the Andy Ballantyne Large Ensemble announces the release of their debut CD “The Sum of the Parts". Featuring eleven of Canada's finest musicians under the direction of noted saxophonist and composer Andy Ballantyne, this unique ensemble combines the rich palette of a big band with the spontaneity of a small group. There's an abundance of variety on the seven originals and three ...

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JazzChicago.net Reviews Liebman and Saindon's CD "Depth of Emotion"

Source: World Improvised Music
March 21, 2008

Chicago jazz critic Brad Walseth recently reviewed Depth of Emotion featuring Dave Liebman on soprano and Ed Saindon on vibes, piano and marimba. The recording has been receiving extensive airplay in the U.S. and abroad. Brad Walseth writes in JazzChicago.Net: “The combination of vibes and soprano sax is one that hasn't really been utilized very often in the annals of jazz, but in the hands of two masters, Ed Saindon and Dave Liebman, a strong case is to be made ...

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Narrowing Down Essential Latin Jazz Albums

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

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Plays Count Basie | Oscar Peterson | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

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I Got a Woman and Some Blues | George Benson | Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

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Across the East - Rodrigo Rodriguez

Source: Abstract Logix
March 20, 2008

"Across the East" is the second album, the pieces on the present recording are thrilling and profoundly musical KZN release by the Spanish composer. The album brings to a conclusion through three years of intensive work where Rodrigo was recording in the different studios, in Spain and Japan. Solo guitars, kena, clarinets, duets for shakuhachi flute and steel guitar, and pieces where Rodrigo has used for the first time the sheng (mouth organ) consisting essentially of vertical pipes,one of the ...

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Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet - Moods

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

With “moods" Michaela Rabitsch - singer and Austria's only female top jazztrumpetplayer and her congenius partner - guitarist Robert Pawlik are presenting 10 songs out of their lifes. Once melancholic - subtle, then full of energetic power, once misterious, once offensive - as moody as life can be. With lyrics, directly accessed from life , they are touching with tunes which play through all the facetes of being. Once it concerns the quiet lonely moments, then again about rollicking pleasure, ...

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Vocalist Sue Giles to Release 2nd CD, "Trav'lin"

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2008

Trenton, NJ, March 20, 2008: Jazz vocal artist Sue Giles hits the road with plans to promote her second CD release, “TRAV'LIN", at her debut performance at the Cape May Jazz Festival - The Next Wave on Friday, April 18, 2008. Ms. Giles will perform two shows for the opening night of the Cape May, NJ festival at Aleathea's Restaurant at the Inn at Cape May, with evening shows at 8:30 and 11:00 p.m. “TRAV'LIN", which was recorded live this ...

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