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The Elements Of King Crimson 2017 Tour Box Available For Pre-Order
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
As with previous releases in the Elements series, the full variety of King Crimson's music is presented over two CDs! Featuring extracts from rehearsals, new live recordings, elements from studio recordings, full tracks, alternate takes and finished recordings from 1969-2016, many of which make their first appearance on CD. Every line-up is featured across the double CD set. Of particular interest on the new set is the inclusion on disc 2 of every part of “Larks' Tongues in Aspic” (some ...
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Bud Shank and Three Trombones
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bud Shank was among the most recorded West Coast jazz reed players. He was on more than 600 known sessions, according to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Heard most often on alto saxophone, Bud began his recording career in 1947 with Ike Carpenter and then with Charlie Barnet in 1948 before joining Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra in 1950. He left the band with Shorty Rogers and others in 1952 to pioneer a more swinging West Coast jazz style in small ensembles, ...
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Trumpeter/Composer Matt White & The Super Villain Jazz Band - "Worlds Wide" New Release - June 30
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
—Downbeat Magazine (for The Super Villain Jazz Band) Trumpeter/Composer Matt White The Super Villain Jazz Band Worlds Wide New Release: June 30 Worlds Wide is the follow-up to trumpeter/composer Matt White's debut album, The Super Villain Jazz Band. In Worlds Wide, Matt reconvenes his Nashville-based group to perform music inspired by places real and imaginary, from waterfalls and valleys to desolate planets, a desperate trip to rescue lost luggage, and music inspired by the ...
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Hampton Hawes: All Night
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I've never been a huge fan of pianist Hampton Hawes. His keyboard assault on many leadership trio albums are frantic and more concerned with speed and percussive impact than harnessed intensity. The result is a jarring listen followed by a headache. Dazzling jazz pianists who skillfully held their emotional horses include Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Al Haig, Erroll Garner and Billy Taylor, to name just a few. The burner under Hawes's proverbial pan was up way too high when he ...
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Red Garland: First Trio LP
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Red Garland's first leadership recording came during Miles Davis's May 1956 session for an album that would be called Workin'. Under pressure to record enough material for two albums to meet half his remaining obligation to Prestige Records, Davis let Garland record one of the tracks in the trio format—Ahmad Jamal's Ahmad's Blues. The result was so spectacular that Prestige decided to record Garland on an entire album in August '56. The album was A Garland of Red, with ...
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Thelonious Monk: Movie Music
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Thelonious Monk recorded only one movie soundtrack in his career—for the French film Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (The Dangerous Laisons), directed by Roger Vadim in 1959. The film was about a married couple who help each other have extramarital affairs (hey, it was France in the late 1950s). Though the film was largely panned, it helped actress Jeanne Moreau gain greater visibility and a leading role in Seven Days...Seven Nights (1960), which won her a Cannes Film Festival award. ...
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Art Pepper Quartet: Nov. 1956
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The second half of 1956 was a highly successful recording period for alto saxophonist Art Pepper. His streak began in July of that year when he appeared on Shorty Rogers' The Big Shorty Rogers Express (RCA). Prior to July, Pepper endured a tough emotional period. He served time in jail on drug charges from February to July 1955. But his freedom was short-lived. After violating the terms of his early release, Pepper was back in prison from July 1955 to ...
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Award Winning Guitarist Brian Tarquin To Release "Orlando In Heaven" In Support Of Orlando's Pulse Nightclub Tragedy Feat. Larry Coryell, Mike Stern, Chris Poland And Others
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Multi-Emmy award winning guitarist/producer/composer Brian Tarquin presents Orlando In Heaven; a very special project featuring an incredible cast of musical virtuosos playing their hearts out for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida! Tarquin composed and produced each of these tracks and displays his own guitar prowess alongside such world-class players as guitar icon Larry Coryell (his final recordings before his passing earlier this year), vocalist Phil Naro (Talas, Julian Lennon), Grammy jazz guitarist Mike Stern, fretless ...
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