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New Single "On My Way" From Keyboardist Carol Albert
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Carol Albert
By Allen Kepler and Jonathan Widran, Smooth Jazz Network We had a chance to preview Carol Albert's new single “On My Way" today and we love it! Listen for the debut of Carol's fresh new tune soon on the SJN! We asked Carol about the new single; “I originally wrote ‘On My Way” for an earlier project as a song of hope and optimism. I wanted to remake the song in a unique way that reflected that same positivity for ...
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Dardanelle: Piano, Vibes + Voice
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Before Beyoncé, Madonna and Cher, there was Dardanelle. Billed solely by her first name starting in the early 1940s, Dardanelle was an enormous talent. She could sing and play jazz piano and vibes, appearing at New York's tony cocktail bars and lounge settings in the 1940s and '50s. Dardanelle had enormous grace and spirit on both instruments and, as a singer, she was good enough for Lionel Hampton to use her at the Cafe Zanzibar on West 49th St. when ...
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Hod O'Brien Meets Sal Nistico
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz was in a strange place in the 1980s. I remember being fresh out of college and working my first job at The New York Times. There were plenty of clubs in town, but other than the big ones where legends performed, the scene was fairly run down and thin on young people in the audience. The excitement of fusion in the 1970s had led to synthpop and funk in the '80s, and the action was all on MTV and ...
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Mandolinist/Singer Chris Thile and Pianist Brad Mehldau Release Duo Album on Nonesuch, Today!
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Nonesuch Publicity
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau features original material and interpretations from a wide range of songwriters Nonesuch Records labelmates mandolinist/singer Chris Thile and pianist Brad Mehldau, longtime admirers of each other's work, first toured as a duo in 2013. At the end of 2015, they played a two-night stand at New York City's Bowery Ballroom before going into the studio to record Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau, a mix of covers and original songs that Nonesuch releases on January 27, ...
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EYOT's First Single 'Veer' Announces Their New Album "Innate"
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PopArtMedia
Recorded & Mixed by Steve Albini EYOT has recorded three albums since 2008—all critically acclaimed and commercially well received. Over the last eight years EYOT as tour extensively covering 20 countries. Their fourth album Innate was recorded by legendary sound engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Mogwai etc..) who also mixed it at Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago. For the official announcement, EYOT has released a video for their first single “Veer." (see below) “Veer"—to change direction; shift, turn, ...
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Doing It Better: CCM as Bond
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The reason most jazz orchestras steer clear of the James Bond catalog is fear of ridicule. Bond music is deceptively difficult. To be convincing, the feel has to be sultry while the attack must be elephantine and brassy. Anything short of these characteristics in scope and sound will come off as lightweight and silly. So when I saw the album Nobody Does It Better: The CCM Jazz Orchestra as James Bond (Summit) last week, I had two simultaneous reactions—skepticism and ...
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Recent Listening: New Old Brubeck
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Dave Brubeck Quartet With Paul Desmond At The Sunset Center 1955 (Solar) New music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet has surfaced on the European label Solar. Previously unissued, it finds the group brimming with the harmonic daring, contrapuntal interaction and humor that were beginning to make them famous. A 1954 TIME magazine cover story about the pianist, the success of the band’s Jazz Goes To College album and lots of radio airplay had them in the public eye and ear ...
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Dennis Coffey: In the D
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1972, guitarist Dennis Coffey had a hit with the funk-soul instrumental Scorpio, which reached #6 on the Billboard pop chart. He had been there many times before as a member of Motown's Funk Brothers house band. That's Coffey's wah-wah guitar on the Temptations' Cloud Nine, Ball of Confusion and Psychedelic Shack. Coffey also can be heard on Diana Ross & the Supremes' Someday We'll Be Together and Freda Payne's Band of Gold as well as many other soul-funk hits. ...
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