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Pianist Mike Longo's Consolidated Artists Productions To Release His New CD, "Only Time Will Tell," March 31
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Connoisseurs of jazz piano trios will welcome the release, on March 31, of Only Time Will Tell, the new trio recording by piano master Mike Longo with Paul West on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. The disc is Longo’s 20th for the CAP (Consolidated Artists Productions) label, and his 26th since debuting as a leader in 1962. Included on the CD are two compositions by Dizzy Gillespie, with whom Longo worked as pianist and musical director for 26 years, ...
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Mike LeDonne: That Feelin'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I've long been a secret fan of organist Mike Le Donne. I say secret because he doesn't know (yet). I began listening to jazz in the early 1970s by collecting exciting organ combo albums. I still love Hammondites Don Patterson, Shirley Scott, Leon Spencer Jr., Charles Earland and Brother Jack McDuff. Add Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Stanley Turrentine or Grover Washington Jr. to the session and I'm all in. To this day, the sound knocks me out if done right. ...
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The Ed Palermo Big Band Releases The Great Un-American Songbook Volumes 1 & 2
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
The Ed Palermo Big Band is Making America Un-Great Again with a Brilliant Blast of Anglophilia, transforming British Rock Treasures into Wildly Inventive Jazz Vehicles on the Double Album: The Great Un-American Songbook Volumes 1 & 2 (Cuneiform Records). From the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jeff Beck to King Crimson, Traffic, and Jethro Tull, Palermo’s 18- piece ensemble Storms the British Invasion and Plants the American Flag (upside down). Crazy times call for outrageous music, and few jazz ensembles are ...
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David Herzhaft releases "Pacific Lounge" on Pacific Waves
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All About Jazz
His instrument of choice is small enough to fit into your hip pocket. But through Pacific Lounge (2016, Pacific Waves), author, instructor, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist David Herzhaft expresses a big vision for the diatonic harmonica. “I first fell in love with the Pacific when I traveled to the West Coast in 1992 and ever since then I had a need to return,” he recalls. “I just had to go back.” Born in Lyon, France, Herzhaft was invited to ...
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Gary Smulyan at Le Duc
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There's nothing quite like a bad-ass baritone saxophone. Baritones tend to divide into two camps on the leadership side. There's the Gerry Mulligan approach, which sounds muscular and mannered. And there's the Pepper Adams school, an unchained approach that leaps on you like a panther. This low-register, uninhibited and gruff sound has its roots in the late 1940s with Leo Parker, Serge Chaloff, Harry Carney and Paul Williams but evolved in the late '50s with Adams's synthesis. I love Adams ...
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All About Jazz Top 10 MP3 Downloads: February 2017
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in February, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here. Enjoy! EDITOR'S PICKS Breackerfast Club 5:57 Michael Zilber From: Originals for the Originals Winter Sweet 08:06 University ...
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Barbara Carroll (RCA Years)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In February, just after pianist Barbara Carroll's death, I posted a tribute in which I focused on the grace of her chord voicings and swing time in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1956, she was with RCA and recorded five superb albums. Prior to these dates in the '50s, Carroll recorded 10-inch albums for the Discovery, Livingston and Atlantic labels. All featured an artist with bass and drums who was determined to show off her energetic elegance and marvelous ...
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Pianist Rupert Leighton Releases New Album "All Kinds Of Fine"
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Rupert Leighton
The latest release from English pianist & composer Rupert Leighton is a synthesis of groove-laden jazz and chill-out excursions. Dazzling piano strides, liquid keys and splashes of saxophone are underpinned by warm bass and vibrant rhythms. Composed, produced & arranged by Rupert, the 11 original tracks serve up intelligent arrangements in an array of moods incorporating straight ahead, funky, smooth and new age. Although primarily on piano & keyboards, he also contributes vibraphone, alto sax and bass with tenor sax ...
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