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Bassist Will Goble Releases "Consider The Blues" On OA2 Records On May 20th

Source: Will Goble
May 19, 2016

For his second recording as a leader, bassist Will Goble is joined by drummer Dave Potter, his long-time rhythm section mate in Jason Marsalis' Quartet, master saxophonist Greg Tardy and the Atlanta-based pianist Louis Heriveaux. Through arrangements of compositions by Mary Lou Williams and George Gershwin, and originals inspired by the 2015 Nepali earthquakes, racial injustice, and other emotion-charged events, Goble presents the blues as an aesthetic through which all people can make their stories known. From the opening “Another ...

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Pianist Roberta Piket's "One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland" To Be Released June 10

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 18, 2016

Marian McPartland’s creative output as a composer has been quite overshadowed by the late piano legend’s decades-long role as a beloved public radio host. Pianist Roberta Piket aims to help put that right with her new album One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland, to be released by Thirteenth Note Records on June 10. “Roberta Piket is an absolutely essential creative voice in modern jazz piano,” says Todd Barkan, who produced the new CD. “And Roberta’s One for Marian sings and ...

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Gerry Mulligan: Jeru

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 18, 2016

One of the loveliest small-group jazz albums of the early 1960s was Gerry Mulligan's Jeru. Recorded in June 1962 for Columbia, Jeru featured the swinging baritone saxophonist at his tenderest. Produced by the session's drummer, Dave Bailey, a close friend of Mulligan, the album focuses heavily on mid-tempo ballads. Mulligan is backed by a traditional rhythm section plus a conga for color—an unusually straight-up sideman scene for Mulligan in small groups, since he tended to favor instrumental configurations light on ...

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Red Garland: Halleloo-Y'-All

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 17, 2016

Except for Count Basie, few pianists in the post-war years could swing the blues like Red Garland. Certainly, Garland could give standards a handsome spin with dramatic lyricism, plenty of space and clusters of block chords. But the blues were in Garland's blood system, and his trio album Halleloo-Y'-All from 1960 remains for me one of the finest examples of his blues trio playing. Garland grew up in Dallas, began his music education on reed instruments, joined the Army in ...

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Benny Goodman: 1958-59

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 16, 2016

Benny Goodman was remarkable in more ways than we often realize. Obviously, his clarinet playing was extraordinary in tone, technique and soulful expression. But his musical judgment, assembly of musicians and taste were impeccable as well. His bands were nearly always exceptional, and he had a golden ear that ensured that his vision and expectations would be met. What's more, he was rarely cliche and nearly always looked for ways to expand into new territory. Two little-known albums that illustrate ...

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Don Redman All-Stars: 1957

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 12, 2016

Don Redman today is a forgotten giant of the swing era. A saxophonist and percussionist who played with Fletcher Henderson's band and McKinney's Cotton Pickers in the 1920s, Redman's true genius rested in his sophisticated big-band arrangements, starting in the late 1920s. By the early 1930s, he was writing complex dance charts years before the music press began calling the music “swing." Listening to his arrangements from that period today, it's easy to hear how muscular, complex bands of the ...

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Grammy Nominated Vocalist René Marie's First All-Original LP "Sound of Red" Out Via Motema Music May 13

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2016

René Marie, the “outrageous” (Wall Street Journal) vocalist has taken the recording process one giant step further with the release of her most personal album on May 13. As the follow-up to 2013’s Grammy award-nominated album I Wanna Be Evil (With Love to Eartha Kitt), Sound of Red is her first album of all-original songs written and co-produced by the contemporary jazz chanteuse herself. It’s been a “remarkable path to jazz” (NPR) for René. As a fearless force in the ...

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Saxophonist/Composer Will Vinson Releases "Perfectly Out Of Place" - Available Now!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 10, 2016

Alto saxophonist/composer Will Vinson possesses many gifts; incredible power, dramatic sensitivity, prodigious technique, and perhaps most importantly, a captivating sound that you want to hear again and again. John Fordham of The Guardian described a “superb solo of rugged leathery sounds turning into mellifluous high notes", with “secure control and storming energy". While JazzWise Magazine has said that Vinson has a knack for “combining a thoughtful originality of conception with energy and fluidity of execution in very satisfying proportions". It ...

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