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Pianist Dan Papirany Releases New Solo Album
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Dan Papirany
Pianist Dan Papirany's new album entitled Solo was recorded in Tel Aviv, Israel. It features Papirany on piano playing standards and original tunes. The album was recorded over three separate sessions in April and May 2017 and is now available via digital downloads through cdbaby.com. Dan's approach on this occasion is the usage of melodic lines of improvisation while experimenting with several harmonic ideas. Some of the songs which can be found on the album are a well known standards ...
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The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper at 50
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Fifty years ago today, Capitol Records released the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandin the U.S. Two months later, my Aunt Mary gave me the album for my birthday. Astonishingly, nothing from the album was released as a single for AM radio. At 11, I was a big Beatles fan, but I couldn't figure out what I was listening to or looking at while holding the cover. First, the Fab Four had facial hair and had become adults. I ...
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Larry Elgart in the Early '60s
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Larry Elgart deserves respect, and it looks like he's finally receiving some with the release of a new two-fer from Blue Moon Records—Larry Elgart and His Orchestra: Sophisticated Sixties (1960) and The Shape of Sounds to Come (1961). I've never been a huge fan, but then again I never gave Larry Elgart or his bandleader brother Les much of a chance. Instead, I was more fond of the Maynard Ferguson band during this early '60s period, an orchestra that still ...
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Terry Gibbs: 92 Years Young
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of the giants of the jazz vibraphone has just released a fabulous new album—92 Years Young: Jammin' at the Gibbs House (Whaling Cit Sound). It's a stone-cold swinging killer. Every single track on here is out-of-control great, proving that true beauty never ages. Gibbs's recording career goes back to 1946, when he waxed 78s with Aaron Sachs' Manor Re-bops, featuring Tiny Kahn on drums. For the next 71 years, Gibbs has played and recorded with virtually everyone of note. ...
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"Introducing…Ruben Gonzalez" Out June 16 Via World Circuit Records
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Sacks and Co.
RE-ISSUE FEATURES EXTENDED AND UNRELEASED TRACKS ON DOUBLE 180gm VINYL AND CD “The greatest piano soloist I have ever heard in my life. He’s like a Cuban cross between Thelonious Monk and Felix the Cat.” —Ry Cooder “Gonzalez was known for his suave virtuosity and playful charisma.” —NPR Music Introducing…Ruben Gonzalez, the classic debut album by the famed Cuban pianist Ruben Gonzalez will be reissued on double 180gm vinyl and CD this June 16 via World Circuit Records. The LP ...
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Ray Mantilla: High Voltage
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A week or so ago I received a call from Harry Sepulveda. Harry and I go way back. We first met in the 1970s, when I used to buy Latin-jazz albums at Record Mart, his store in the Times Square subway station, down a flight of stairs from the Shuttle. Today the store still exists, though it now has a more prominent location facing the shuttle. Latin music still pours out the door, adding flavor to the expansive station. Harry ...
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Oscar Pettiford: 1955-'58
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the spring of 1956, bassist Oscar Pettiford (pictured above with cello), in tandem with producer Creed Taylor, began assembling musicians and arrangers for what would become one of the hippest and sexiest big bands of the mid-decade period. Two albums were recorded a year apart for ABC-Paramount, where Creed was head of jazz A&R. Back in 2008, when I interviewed Creed, I asked him about the two Pettiford orchestral recordings: JazzWax: The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi albums were ...
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Vintage David S. Ware Trio Album To Be Released June 23 On AUM Fidelity
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Steven Joerg
Live in New York, 2010 presents a tremendous one-night engagement by saxophone colossus David S. Ware and his latter day Trio in an intimate club setting – at Blue Note on October 4, 2010. This double- album features the complete night of music – one set per CD. Featuring his perennially steadfast musical partner William Parker on bass, and likewise incomparable Warren Smith on drums, they were celebrating the recent release of the studio album, Onecept. Having played an electrifying ...
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