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Drum Legend Narada Michael Walden To Release New Full Length Album "Evolution" On Tarpan Records
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Tarpan Records is pleased to announce the international release of Evolution the upcoming full-length album by Narada Michael Walden releasing on October 30th 2015. The albums’ first single, Billionaire On Soul Street, which was released on August 14th, 2015 and the forthcoming album represent a change of direction for Narada, one that brings him back to his roots in Dance and Club Music, Funk and Soul. The first single was, and full-length album will be released on Narada’s own imprint, ...
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"Doors: Chicago Storylines," New CD By Alto Saxophonist/Composer Caroline Davis, Due Nov. 6
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Following the release of her much-praised 2012 debut, Live Work & Play, alto saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis relocated from Chicago to New York City and got to work on an ambitious project that had been germinating for seven years. To honor her eight-year residency in Chicago, she combines spoken stories and original compositions on her new CD Doors: Chicago Storylines, which will be released by ears&eyes Records on November 6. Joining her on Doors are longtime members of her ...
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June Christy: Interlude, 1957
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
June Christy in the LP era has always been most closely identified with Billy Barnes' Something Cool, which she first recorded in mono for Capitol in 1953. I love the song about the hot-weather gal down on her luck who's nursing a bar drink because she has no place to go. Christy delivers the lyrics with just the right amount of besotted braggadocio and bewilderment. But the humid ballad I like even more is Christy's Interlude, which she recorded in ...
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Toronto guitarist Galen Weston gets Plugged In & turned back on with debut album
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Michael Ricci
Guitarist and composer Galen Weston unleashes a lifetime of music on his ambitious debut album, Plugged In. After laying down his guitar for more than a decade, Weston breathes life into his almost forgotten songs, recording 10 original tracks and two covers with fine craftsmanship and intense focus, while showcasing an unwavering dedication to tonal quality and nuance. Fueled by jazz and rock guitarists such as Mike Stern, Wes Montgomery, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai, the record showcases ...
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Serge Chaloff: March 1947
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Once Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach and other black jazz musicians pioneered bebop and began recording the revolutionary style in 1945, other gifted jazz artists of the period quickly figured out the new language. Among the most exciting and proficient bop groups of 1947 was the short-lived Serge Chaloff Sextette. The group recorded four songs (enough for two 78s) and featured Red Rodney (tp), Earl Swope (tb), Serge Chaloff (bar), George Wallington (p), ...
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The Metronomes: Something Big
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To stand out and survive, jazz vocal groups in the 1950s and beyond had to have a certain amount of commercial appeal. Much of their success as recording artists and performers depended on their ability to harmonize, sound hip and connect with pop-minded audiences. This was as true of the Ink Spots and Mills Brothers in the 1940s as it was of the Four Freshmen, the Hi-Lo's and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross in the 1950s and the Manhattan Transfer and ...
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Randy Bernsen Heats Up With "Grace Notes"
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Kari-On Productions
Grace Notes marks Randy Bernsen’s return to working on a bigger canvas with another all-star cast, including Yellowjackets co-founders Jimmy Haslip and Russell Ferrante, drummers Peter Erskine, Gary Novak and Virgil Donati, keyboardist Scott Kinsey Mac Chew and Colin James, saxophonist Steve Tavaglione, percussionists Luis Conte, Archie Pena and blues harmonica ace Rockin’ Jake. Florida homeboys Othello Molineaux, Bobby Thomas Jr. and Julius Pastorius (Jaco’s son) also make special guest appearances on his 12th album as a leader. Co-produced by ...
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Jan Lundgren: A Retrospective
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren caught the tail end of West Coast jazz. At age 29 in 1995, Lundgren was recommended to producer Dick Bank by saxophonist Herb Geller, who had moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1962 and met Lundgren while touring in Sweden in 1994. Bank was preparing to record an album of Lester Young's music with tenor saxophonist Bill Perkins. A pianist was needed who was solid, intuitive and had the chops and sensitivity to play with the flavor ...
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