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Available Now: Guitarist Kevin Eubanks Showcases Breadth of Artistic Influences on New Mack Avenue Records Release, "The Messenger"

Source: DL Media
February 23, 2013

With his second Mack Avenue Records release, The Messenger, acclaimed guitarist Kevin Eubanks continues to explore his own unique musical vision. This vision offers the listener an opportunity to share a musical journey that truly exemplifies where Eubanks is at this stage of his illustrious career; one that, for over three decades, has seen him incorporate into his creative process a willingness to embrace the broad spectrum of his musical experience, while continuing to seek out new vistas. The Messenger ...

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James Hunter: "Minute by Minute"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 22, 2013

James Hunter's new album Minute by Minute (Fantasy) is tremendously exciting. If you love R&B riffs and hooks and a raw soulful voice, this one has it all. As I write at WSJ.com today (go here), Hunter has faced his share of hardship. His soul survivor instincts owe much to his grandmother's R&B collection, particularly records by Ray Charles. [Photo above of James Hunter by Ruth Ward] Hunter's voice has the same hurt and sass as Charles and Sam Cooke, ...

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Swiss Prog Ensemble Zenit Release Highly Anticipated Third Album "The Chandrasekhar Limit"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 21, 2013

Switzerland - One of the most respected progressive rock bands ever to emerge from Switzerland, Zenit, have released their third album 'The Chandrasekhar Limit' on Galileo Records on January 28, 2013. Possibly the most ambitious release of 2013, right from the beginning of Zenit's new 69-minute masterpiece, Andy Thommen (formerly Clepsydra), affixes a seal with his distinctive bass playing on the first song (“Awaken”). Later, with the start of the guitar, you will somewhat be reminded of the Clepsydra sound: ...

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All-Star Session By Bassist/Composer Robert Hurst, "BoB: A Palindrome," Due For March 12 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 21, 2013

Bassist Robert Hurst is an M.V.P.—a long-standing member of Diana Krall’s and Chris Botti’s touring bands, an esteemed colleague of jazz stars like Branford Marsalis and Robert Glasper, and most recently a key player on Sir Paul McCartney’s Grammy-winning Kisses on the Bottom. But Hurst’s own recordings, with his compositions and his bands front and center, are especially welcome events in the jazz world. On March 12, BoB: A Palindrome, an all-star Hurst date and the fourth release on his ...

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Albert King's Late '60s "Born Under A Bad Sign" To Be Reissued On Stax Records

Source: conqueroo
February 21, 2013

Release teems with King’s best-known songs: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Laundromat Blues.” Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the MGs, the Memphis Horns and Stax’s songwriters help make it an all-time blues classic. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a ...

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Jaga Jazzist to Release "Jaga Jazzist Live With the Britten Sinfonia" on May 6

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2013

Those unlucky enough to miss Jaga Jazzist in performance with the UK's Britten Sinfonia in either London, at The Barbican, last summer or Oslo, at Rockefeller, last fall—the final show of Conexions,a series curated by Fiona Talkington, host of the terrific BBC Radio 3 show Late Junction, amongst many other things, and reviewed at All About Jazz here—will be happy to hear that the progressive Norwegian group will be releasing the Oslo show on May 6, 2013 as Jaga Jazzist ...

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Keyboard Master John Medeski Branches out on Debut Solo Piano Album, "A Different Time", Available on April 9 Via Okeh

Source: DL Media
February 19, 2013

Introspective & Meditative Collection Spotlights Mostly Original Medeski Compositions Through Use of Historic Gaveau Piano Project Serves as First Release on the Newly Re-Launched Label Keyboard master John Medeski thrives on the unpredictable, a trait that has kept his work with the trailblazing trio Medeski Martin & Wood (MMW) fresh and surprising for more than twenty years. With A Different Time, his first solo piano project, Medeski once again takes his sound in a completely unexpected direction – unexpected even ...

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Mark Lopeman: "Nice Work"

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 19, 2013

Two years ago, saxophonist and clarinetist Mark Lopeman released a beautiful album that completely escaped my radar. I'm just glad I'm catching up to it now. Recorded in June 2011, the album is Nice Work If You Can Get It and features Brandon Lee (tp), Noah Bless (tb), Mark Lopeman (ts,sop,cl), Ted Rosenthal (p), Nicki Parrott (b) and Tim Horner (d). If you're unfamiliar with Lopeman, I can tell you that every song, every arrangement and every note that comes ...

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