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10 Best Band Albums Of '58
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The year 1958 was a big one for music. The 12-inch LP was firmly established as a format, stereo albums began to be released and jazz and pop musicians were hard at work in clubs, recording studios, on television shows and on movie sound stages. With improved fidelity and longer album sides came a big-band resurgence and an emphasis on renewed optimism, brassy bombast and swinging charts. [Pictured, from left: Trumpeter Don Fagerquist and tenor saxophonists Arno Marsh and Georgie ...
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Arne Domnérus: Swede and Cool
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in late 1950 and '51, the cool jazz of the Mile Davis Nonet deeply influenced not only Americans but also Swedes. There are two likely reasons for this: The high skill level of Swedish musicians at the time and American jazz musicians who toured there. Arguably Sweden's greatest saxophonist at the time was Arne Domnérus, who played alto and clarinet and was the go-to session musician in Stockholm when American jazz artists arrived in town to play and record. ...
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Sarah Vaughan 'Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection' Coming on August 20.
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conqueroo
Concord Music Group will release the two-CD Sarah Vaughan set Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection on August 20, 2013. Featuring six previously unreleased tracks and new liner notes, the compilation celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records, the jazz label founded by Norman Granz in 1973. The story of Pablo Records is a story of one veteran producer’s return to the music he loved best. Norman Granz, founder of Jazz at the Philharmonic, so missed the recording aspect ...
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SAM Debut Album “Another Life” Set for Release
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Chris M. Slawecki
The progressive-rock improvising trio SAM, formed by bassist Julie Slick, guitarist Peter Alexius and Chapman Stick player Marc Mennigmann, announced the release of their long awaited debut album called Another Life and an additional EP called Yet Another Life on July 22nd, 2013. The album will be available on BandCamp first. Distribution on iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, and several other digital record stores will follow later this month. The release of a physical 2 CD box is planned for the end ...
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Aug. 13: Lorraine Feather Releases “Attachments” Lyricist-Singer’s Intense & Intimate Follow-up To Grammy-nominated “Ages” & “Tales Of The Unusual”
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
"Attachments" (Jazzed Media - JM 1063, August 13 Release) is lyricist / singer Lorraine Feather’s 8th solo jazz album since the year 2000. On each of these ambitious releases, she has sung only her own lyrics, and received extraordinary press. Her 2010 stages-of-life release Ages and her 2012 Gothic adventure Tales of the Unusual received Grammy nominations. This project is Feather’s most intense and intimate to date. The theme is the connections we have with family, friends, lovers, creatures and ...
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New York Session Group Rides High On "Trio Hour"
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All About Jazz
Pianist Mika Pohjola, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Kyle Struve played 2005-09 on a weekly basis in Pohjola's studio on East 14th Street in Manhattan. The trio specialized in exploring improvisational concepts based on the framework and form of jazz standards. And this fine outing, Trio Hour, recorded in early 2007, is precisely that: Jazz standards and explorations beyond. The first four tracks, consisted of Con Alma by Dizzy Gillespie, Conception by George Shearing, In Your Own Sweet Way by ...
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Provinciano By Argentinian Bassist Fernando Huergo Rereleased
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Mika Pohjola
Argentinian bassist and composer Fernando Huergo rereleases his successful album, Provinciano, on Blue Music Group, now featuring a new mix and master, made for iTunes. Featuring thirteen compositions, most of them from Huergo's creative pen, the album has been praised by the media - All About Jazz says “Huergo triumphantly morphs the best of several musical worlds into this dazzling masterwork", and All Music Guide: “Highly recommended!" Fernando Huergo was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but has resided in Boston, Massachusetts ...
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Nashville Trumpeter/Composer Imer Santiago Debuts With "Hidden Journey" Aug. 27
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Imer Santiago’s musical journey, which began in his native Ohio with stops in New Orleans and Austin, took an important turn in 2007 when he relocated to Nashville. There the accomplished young trumpeter forged a close bond with saxophonist Rahsaan Barber, one of the local jazz scene’s key players as well as the owner of Jazz Music City Records. On August 27, Jazz Music City will release Hidden Journey, Imer Santiago’s impressive debut as a leader. “You may not associate ...
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