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Fay VictorLazy Old Sun-Live/Life in the Low Lands Street Date: October 5, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
October 5, 2004

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eRikm & Fennesz : Complementary Contrasts on hatOLOGY 618

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October 5, 2004

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Ellery Eskelin : Ten on hatOLOGY 611

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October 5, 2004

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Guitarist Barry Cleveland Releases Volcano and Memory & Imagination CDs

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2004

Redwood City, CA, August 17, 2004. Innovative guitarist Barry Cleveland has released two new CDs on Supersaturated Records: Volcano and Memory & Imagination. Cleveland's guitar playing incorporates elements from diverse sources (psychedelia, progressive rock, ambient, electronic, jazz, funk, and a host of “world" music styles) and combines them with unusual sounds created using unorthodox playing techniques and electronic processing. Volcano is an explosive mixture of African and Afro-Haitian rhythms and progressive, jazz, ambient, and world music elements, featuring Michael Manring ...

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Lynne Arriale: Master at Reinventing Songs

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2004

Years of inspiration have come together for jazz pianist and composer Lynne Arriale on her 10th anniversary album. Come Together, on the Motema Music label, highlights the artist's improvisational talents on a nine-song collection of originals and deftly interpreted pop standards, among them the Lennon-McCartney title song and the New Orleans classic “Iko, Iko." Classically trained, Arriale turned her attention to jazz in her 20s, creating a signature sound with her transcendent melodies and understated technique. She's a master at ...

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Vicki Burns releases debut CD "Siren Song" to a wider audience in October 2004!

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2004

Jazz vocalist Vicki Burns will be releasing her critically acclaimed CD “Siren Song" to a wider audience in October, 2004. This campaign will include radio airplay, reviews and more. About Vicki Burns: Vicki Burns is a jazz singer who has been delighting audiences in the Bay Area for the past ten years. A vocalist with impeccable taste, a sure sense of rhythm and a glorious tone, she infuses each song with heartfelt expression, digging into the lyrics and melody for ...

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Q-Burns Abstract Message: New CD | U.S. Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2004

EIGHTH DIMENSION RECORDS TO RELEASE “FUTURE PAST TENSE - REMIXES BY Q-BURNS ABSTRACT MESSAGE" WITH A U.S. TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THIS LONG-AWAITED FULL-LENGTH

Stretching back from 1998's remix of Rabbit In The Moon's “Floor.i.da" to recent re-workings for Fila Brazilla and Lovesky these tracks give an entertaining overview of the variety, ingenuity, and funkiness of Michael Donaldson's work previously unavailable on CD.

About Future Past Tense:

Michael Donaldson AKA Q-Burns Abstract Message often speaks of how he started producing ...

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Albert Ayler: CD Set Awakens Spirit of Intrepid Jazzman

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2004

Who was Albert Ayler?

Good question, even decades after the death of the avant- garde jazz saxophonist from Cleveland.

Ayler (pronounced “EYE-ler") remains “a mysterious figure," says Dean Blackwood, head of Revenant Records.

“It's mysterious how he got from point A to point Z in his musical life," Blackwood says. “He died mysteriously, too. People still don't know exactly what happened there."

Ayler's body was found floating in New York City's East River on the morning of Nov. 25, 1970. ...

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