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Van Der Graaf Generator Release New Live Album "Merlin Atmos" On Esoteric Antenna

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 16, 2015

London, UK - ESOTERIC ANTENNA, are pleased to announce the release of the marvellous new live album by Van Der Graaf Generator, Merlin Atmos on February 2, 2015. Recorded in 2013, the limited edition 2CD Digipack features the first ever full live performance of “FLIGHT” and “A PLAGUE OF LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS” In June 2013, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans took to the road in Europe to present a series of live concerts that featured a set list that ...

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DW3 Pays “Tribute” To Their Late Drummer-Mentor Ricky Lawson

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
February 14, 2015

R&B vocal band goes retro on their sophomore album, Vintage Truth, due March 17, with assistance from contemporary jazz luminaries Dave Koz, Brian Culbertson, Paul Brown, Greg Adams and Elan Trotman. Los Angeles, CA: At the untimely passing of the drummer Steely Dan’s Walter Becker described as having perfect timing, Ricky Lawson was only four songs into producing the sophomore album by R&B vocal group DW3. Lawson, who had an extraordinary GRAMMY-winning career collaborating with Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil ...

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Tobias Grim: Brazil Lines

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2015

By Gabriel Medina Arenas Sweden and Brazil are more than 6,400 miles apart. Their weather, culture, customs and folklore couldn't be more different, but music proves once again to be a universal language that builds bridges even between such contrasting lands. The Swedish guitarist Tobias Grim has a deep love for the “South American giant" and it's magical music. This debut was influenced by legends like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Baden Powell and Toninho Horta. Grim and ...

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Bill Evans' 'Kind of Blue' Notes

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 12, 2015

Most jazz fans know that pianist Bill Evans wrote the liner notes that appear on the back of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. What you probably don't know is that Evans' draft was worded slightly differently in places before he edited the text prior to submission. Yesterday, JazzWax reader Robert Brais sent along a copy of the original draft. He has the copy framed at his house. Robert picks up the story: “Bill Evans' final liner notes can be read here. ...

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Grammy-Winning Saxophonist Tivon Pennicott’ Releases Soaring New Album

Source: Eric Taylor
February 10, 2015

Imagine a diary with no words. Inspired by saxophonist Tivon Pennicott’s experiences from relocating to New York City in late 2009, Lover of Nature is exactly that; each composition is a soundtrack to a day in the life, a cinematic overview of what was. Given that there are no lyrics, the music is open to interpretation although Pennicott has revealed their origins. It’s actually better not knowing; letting one’s imagination soar through the skies can actually deepen the relationship between ...

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Carmen McRae for Cool Ones

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 11, 2015

Between 1954 and 1958, singer Carmen McRae recorded 12 albums for Decca. She was signed by Milt Gabler, Decca's head of A&R, after he had seen her sing at a Brooklyn club. Gabler had great success producing Billie Holiday between 1944 and 1950 for Decca and Ella Fitzgerald between 1942 and 1955. When Fitzgerald announced in '54 that she would be leaving to join Verve the following year, Decca needed a replacement in a hurry. Not only did the label ...

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Grammy Award Winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra Releases New Single And Video Pacific Mambo Dance Worldwide On March 3rd, 2015

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 10, 2015

San Francisco, CA - This is Pacific Mambo Orchestra’s first international video and single release since the San Francisco Bay Area sensation nabbed the 2013 Grammy Award® for Best Tropical Latin Album. Pacific Mambo Dance is an infectious, get-off-your- feet group dance anthem that’s destined to become a new club classic and will be available digitally worldwide on March 3rd, 2015. The video is a lush Latin dream that opens with joyously teasing instrumentals (among them, co-leaders Christian Tumalan on ...

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NYC Prog Trio Consider The Source To Release 23-Minute Opus

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 9, 2015

Much to the anticipation of Prog fans worldwide, NYC trio Consider the Source are releasing their first studio material in four years; A 3-disc collection titled World War Trio which has launched with the debut of a 23-minute opus “World War Trio EP (Part 1)”. Consider The Source defies easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it'd probably ...

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