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7 New CD Discoveries

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 18, 2014

This week, two rock boxes, a jazz-arranger compilation, a bluegrass beauty, one of the finest jazz albums of the year thus far, a powerful jazz pianist from Italy and a singer whose voice will remind you of Boz and Jon [portrait above by Rainer Magold] What's interesting about the Allman Brothers Band is that they've always been as good on stage as they are in the studio. Best of all, they don't speed up live, so their concert recordings tend ...

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Arts + Labor to Release The Jones Family Singers' "The Spirit Speaks"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 17, 2014

Yep, it’s gospel music – but fans of such nouveau soul bands as Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Vintage Trouble will also find a soul workout at the core...A gospel group that has wowed crowds at ACL Fest and SXSW a total of eight times. The Jones Family Singers, consisting of five sisters, two brothers and their father, have been wrecking churches and festivals alike for over two decades. But they’ve never before made a studio album that ...

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Kanaga System Krush Announces Tiécoro Sissoko's "Keme Borama"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 17, 2014

Since the country of Mali has suffered a ban on music by Islamist militants, artists from around the world have come together to campaign towards promoting the culture and music of Mali. Musicians such as Toumani Diabate, Fatoumata Diawara, Amadou & Mariam, Bassekou Kouyate and Rokia Traore are a few of the most outspoken advocates of Malian musical and cultural freedom. Kanaga System Krush (K.S.K.) Records also plays its role in preserving Malian music. Their latest album, Keme Borama out ...

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Bobby Rush, Dr. John & Blinddog Smokin' Unite on "Decisions"

Source: conqueroo
February 16, 2014

Louisiana music legends Bobby Rush and Dr. John, two of the most colorful figures in the blues, have known each other for more than 50 years. They met as young men in their 20s on the early 1960s R&B circuit and have remained good friends ever since. “When they’re telling stories it’s hilarious because they’re talking about bluesmen so ugly they had to turn their backs to the audience to play guitar,” says mutual friend Carl Gustafson of the Southern ...

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Dr. Judith Schlesinger Co-Produces "Beautiful Love" With Paulinho Garcia

Source: Dr. Judith Schlesinger
February 12, 2014

After a dozen years of commenting on other people's music, and the executive producing of the acclaimed 2011 Trust by the Sean Smith Quartet, All About Jazz columnist and reviewer Dr. Judith Schlesinger is once again putting her money where her mouth is. On Valentine's Day, her Shrinktunes Media, together with Paulinho Garcia's Jazzmin Records, is releasing Beautiful Love with a dinner concert at Chicago's International Theater. The CD, which is receiving uniformly glowing reviews in the United States as ...

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7 CD Discoveries of the Week

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 12, 2014

A wide range of music hauled up from this week's CD net—from soul and pop to jazz and Latin... When Aretha Franklin was signed to Columbia Records in 1960, she was positioned as Ella Fitzgerald's successor, the new queen of pop. In fact, she was quite different—earthier, girlish and of her times. Not until Franklin was signed to Atlantic in 1967 was she fully maximized as soul's leading voice and the extension of Ray Charles's naturalism. This transition from Tin ...

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Audio Fidelity To Release Barry White Can't Get Enough Limited Numbered Edition 180g Vinyl On February 18, 2014

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 12, 2014

Camarillo, CA – Much to the excitement of Barry White fans worldwide, Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity is releasing a limited numbered edition 180g vinyl LP of soul legend Barry White's critically acclaimed 1974 masterpiece 'Can't Get Enough' on February 18, 2014! 'Can't Get Enough' made Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time! This is the first time Barry White's music has been given the audiophile treatment! It's also the first time the lyrics to all ...

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Songlines Will Release Kartet's Grand Laps On March 11, 2014

Source: GoMedia PR
February 11, 2014

Sixth Album from Critically Lauded Kartet Introduces New Member and Expanded Instrumentation “Kartet makes a deliberate and beautiful brand of inside-out jazz...decidedly unconventional yet not harsh or taxing on the ear...Kartet flows seamlessly in and out of improvisations, and its arranged material shows harmonic daring and imagination." —Will Layman, PopMatters It's seven years since Kartet's sixth album (The Bay Window, Songlines), but then this is a group that's been pacing itself for the long haul. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in ...

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