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Bill Miller: Robbie Williams
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To the best of my knowledge, pianist Bill Miller, who accompanied Frank Sinatra for more than 50 years, never recorded an album under his own name. He led a sextet in the early 1960s, but only while accompanying Sinatra on tour. In interviews prior to his death in 2006, Miller intimated that he occasionally played gigs in Los Angeles clubs, but he never mentioned recording an album either as a leader or as part of a small group. As a ...
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Marion Williams: Packin' Up
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you track the tenor saxophone back to the artist who did the most to change the instrument's direction—transforming it from a mannered, slippery reed to a bossy, solo voice—you'll wind up on the doorstep of Coleman Hawkins. If you do the same with gospel, you will discover Marion Williams, who in the late 1940s began turning the church vocal into an expressive and individual virtuoso form. Her astonishing delivery would have a significant influence on male and female R&B ...
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CD Release: Aaron Aranita Big Band "Rough Jazz"
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Frank Moten
Jazz, naturally, has a rich and varied history but it could be argued that it misplaced a little something on its way to becoming a Respected Art Form. Not to imply that jazz shouldn’t be taken seriously, but there is such a thing as taking a thing too seriously. Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie are among the music’s most important artists ever but they never shied away from being entertainers—aside from musical excellence, they ...
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Al Cohn: Rifftide, June 1986
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A year and a half before Al Cohn's death of liver cancer in Feb. 1988, the tenor saxophonist was on tour in Europe. In June 1986, he was in Monster, the Netherlands, recording Rifftide with Dutch jazz musicians Rein de Graaff (p) Koos Serierse (b) Eric Ineke (d) at Studio 44 for the Timelss label. It's one of the finest albums of Cohn's late period and a document that marvelously illustrates what made Cohn special. Cohn was a powerful post-war ...
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Dash! Releases New Album "Dash! Off," Marking Their 10th Anniversary
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Maarten Ornstein
DASH! Off is the fourth album of DASH!, the Amsterdam-based free-funk trio led by saxophonist-clarinettist-composer Maarten Ornstein. This new album was recorded live in Splendor Amsterdam, the city's most dynamic new music venue. DASH! Off offers five trio pieces and a 30 minute suite featuring special guests Michael Moore, Joost Buis, Jasper Stadhouders and Joshua Samson, all of whom have worked with DASH! before. Inspiration for this new album comes from the likes of Ornette Coleman, James “Blood" Ulmer, Sonny ...
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Daniel Westin Quartet's Debut Album Notes Renowned In International And Domestic Press
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Daniel Stahre
The Daniel Westin Quartet released their debut album Notes at the Swedish record label Strangers Candy in May 2015 and has since reached out to international blogs, newspapers as well as domestic media. In the autumn of 2015 the album was among the most played jazz albums on national Danish jazz radio, DR P8 Jazz. Notes was recorded and produced by the producer Åke Linton (of Esbjorn Svensson Trio fame) at Svenska Grammofonstudion in Sweden. Praise for Notes British web ...
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Blue Engine Records Celebrates the Holidays with BIG BAND HOLIDAYS: New release from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features guest vocalists René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter
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Michael Ricci
CD streets October 30, 2015; limited edition 180g vinyl coming soon Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with the release of Big Band Holidays, a compilation of holiday classics performed live by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Special guests on Big Band Holidays are some of today’s commanding new voices in jazz: René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter. Big Band Holidays will be released ...
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Johnny Mathis: The Singles
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For some reason, when talk turns to male pop singers of the 1950s and '60s, Johnny Mathis is almost always skipped over. There's plenty of chatter on the merits of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Williams and others but few words in praise of Mathis. In fact, one could argue that he's nearly forgotten today. Perhaps it's because he didn't record in the jazz-swing tradition. Or perhaps his renditions were too sweet and sincere. ...
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