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Maria Bacardi: "Deseo"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 21, 2013

Cuban boleros are a specialty all to themselves. Performed well, they are languid ballads with stories illustrating love gone wrong. To be convincing, a bolero requires a voice with a humid, husky timbre and a feeling that neatly combines grief and guarded optimism. The greats always sound shattered by a lost love but hopeful that tomorrow will bring fresh happiness. Among the finest female practitioners of the Cuban bolero have been Olga Guillot, Omara Portuando, Graciela Perez Grillo and Maria ...

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Jazz This Week: Chick Corea and Bela Fleck, Alarm Will Sound, Tributes to Dave Brubeck and Eddie Lang, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 21, 2013

Spring officially arrives tomorrow in St. Louis, and while it remains to be seen whether or not the weather will cooperate by being appropriately spring-like, the next few days definitely include some jazz and creative music performances worth seeing. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the 20-member new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound returns for the second performance of their St. Louis season at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The program will offer a preview of AWS' concert next month at ...

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Aaron Diehl: Trio and Quartet

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 20, 2013

I spent the day yesterday writing and listening to pianist Aaron Diehl's new album, The Bespoke Man's Narrative (Mack Ave.). I love Diehl's chord voicings and acute sense of drama. In his playing, you can hear the suspense of Red Garland and patience of Ahmad Jamal. And yet he sounds like himself. Diehl's trio here features David Wong on bass and Rodney Green on drums—with vibraphonist Warren Wolf joining on seven tracks. No one is in a hurry, which is ...

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Sam Most: "East Coast Jazz"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 19, 2013

A long-forgotten Sam Most album on the Bethlehem label has just been remastered and reissued. Recorded in 1955, I'm Nuts About Most...Sam That Is! was the ninth and final album in the series of “East Coast Jazz" LPs that Creed Taylor produced while at Bethlehem. Creed launched the “East Coast Jazz" series in 1954 to distinguish the new music emerging in New York from the new jazz in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In addition, with the rise of the ...

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MAXJAZZ Releasing Ben Wolfe's New CD from Here I See on Tuesday, April 2

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 19, 2013

The St. Louis-based independent label MAXJAZZ has scheduled the release of bassist/composer Ben Wolfe's new CD From Here I See for Tuesday, April 2. The album is Wolfe's second for MAXJAZZ, which previously released his CD No Strangers Here back in 2008. The NYC-based Wolfe is known for his work with Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and also teaches at Juilliard. His new recording features him with pianist Orrin Evans, drummer Donald Edwards, ...

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World Jazz Quartet Veronneau Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of 'Jazz Samba'

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2013

50 years ago “bossa nova" was a term barely known beyond Brazil, until in 1963 Jazz Samba, the milestone recording by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, took the world by storm. In popularizing the seductive, syncopated “bossa" rhythm, it became the only jazz album in history to reach #1 on the Billboard pop chart in March 1963. It ranks as one of the biggest selling jazz albums of all time and brought Brazilian composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim to ...

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Soft Machine Legacy Releases New Studio Album "Burden Of Proof"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2013

Soft Machine Legacy makes their most powerful statement to date, delivering an album of epic proportions and their first studio output since 2007's Steam. Infectious grooves, undeniably hip vibes and sizzling performances dominate the outing, as the veteran progressive music masters continue to break new ground and offer listeners yet more previously-unseen facets of their dynamic musical persona. Featuring some intriguingly-inviting new writing, the album is a breath of fresh air for progressive music and a bold furtherance of the ...

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Dubbed Out in Bucharest: Mahala Rai Banda’s Balkan Reggae

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2013

When Romania’s Romany pop supergroup Mahala Rai Banda set cimbaloms skanking a few years ago on “Balkan Reggae,” reggae DJs around Europe perked up and started dropping the track into their sets. It was merely a matter of time before the obvious next step came. In honor of Jamaica’s 50 years of independence in 2012, Mahala Rai Banda reached out to Caribbean-inspired remixers. The result: Balkan Reggae Remixed (Asphalt Tango). A diverse crew of producers added their stamp to the ...

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