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Charles Mingus: Workshop Concerts

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 3, 2012

By 1960, bassist, composer and leader Charles Mingus wasn't a jazz musician in the traditional sense. He was an activist, and if the new Charles Mingus: The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (Mosaic) box is any indication, his music was two years ahead of Huey Newton's Black Panthers and the Black Power movement in general—both of which were launched in 1966. Mingus' activist roots likely date back to September 1951, when he wasn't permitted to join Red Norvo and Tal Farlow ...

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Barry Cleveland Reissues Critically Acclaimed 1986 "Mythos" Album

Source: Barry Cleveland
December 3, 2012

Originally released on Larry “Synergy" Fast's legendary Audion Recording Company label in 1986, Mythos combined Barry Cleveland's processed, layered, and looped guitars with Michael Masley's otherworldly bowhammer cymbalom, and Bob Stohl and Kat Epple's woodwinds, synths, and light percussion. “Mythos was, and remains, a great album." —Larry Fast The 2012 reissue of Mythos makes the entire album available for the first time since its original release. It was digitally remastered using state-of-the-art tools to restore and enhance the clarity and ...

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Scott Healy Ensemble "Hudson City Suite" Is Released

Source: Scott Healy
December 2, 2012

Los Angeles composer and pianist Scott Healy announces the release of “Hudson City Suite" by the Scott Healy Ensemble. Featuring Tim Hagans on trumpet, Healy on piano, and an all-star band, this fifty-six minute work was recorded April 30th and May 1st, 2012, at The Bridge in Glendale, CA. Nine original tracks are thematically linked, the music is spacious, rich, reverent to the past and looking forward. Hudson City Suite by the Scott Healy Ensemble is a conceptual and grooving ...

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Cynthia Basinet, Best Known For "Santa Baby," Releases Her Debut Full Length Jazz CD "The Standard"

Source: Cynthia "c." Basinet
December 1, 2012

Cynthia Basinet, the actress, singer, humanitarian known for the most iconic version of “Santa Baby," releases her debut full length jazz CD “The Standard". “The Standard", 15 years in the making contains 11 tracks, including two bonus Holiday tracks. Cynthia has given new vocals and mixies to several of her songs, like “Blue Moon", “Going Out Of My Head", “Sweet Dreams" and “The Christmas Song". SmoothJazz.com said, “This gorgeous version of Nat King Cole's holiday nugget was arranged by Tony ...

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Lockjaw Davis: Moodsville, Vol. 4

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 28, 2012

Starting back in 1958, Prestige Records as an experiment began creating brand lines to appeal to different types of consumers. It launched Swingville, Bluesville and Moodsville. Each provided buyers with a self-evident signal as to the general type of jazz inside. On Moodsville releases, the music by leading jazz musicians generally moved at the pace of your pulse and was meant to be played as background for a romantic evening, dinner or just relaxing. Among the finest Moodsville recordings—and there ...

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Andre Previn: Early Jazz Years

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 27, 2012

Today, Andre Previn is viewed by many jazz fans as a jazz pretender—a dyed-in-the wool classical pianist and conductor and a prolific film composer who can manage jazz impersonation but shouldn't really be considered among jazz's piano greats. All of which is complete nonsense if you are aware of Previn's early jazz recordings. If you aren't, it's not your fault. Most of his pre-1956 leadership sessions for RCA languish in vaults someplace, so all you may know are his West ...

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Electric NHIC Releases New CD - Concert at Firehouse12 on Saturday December 1st

Source: Bob Gorry
November 28, 2012

NHIC Records announces the release of the new CD Ground Waves by Electric NHIC on November 1st, 2012. CD Release Concert at Firehouse12 on Saturday December 1st Electric NHIC evolved from the high energy avant-funk of Mayhem Circus Electric, a signature grouping of the New Haven Improvisers Collective. MCE's well-received CD, Lubricity, was praised by the New Haven Advocate for its tight post funk grooves and called fun and relentlessly heavy creative jazz by Cadence magazine. Gapplegate Music compared it ...

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David Kilminster, Guitarist On Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour, Releases Debut Solo CD "Scarlet – The Director's Cut"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
November 26, 2012

London, UK - Guitar virtuoso David Kilminster, best known for his work with Roger Waters and Keith Emerson, has released his debut solo CD titled 'Scarlet – The Director's Cut'. David's radical techniques and mesmerizing sounds have captivated fans and fellow musicians alike worldwide. Named “Guitarist of the Year” by Guitar Magazine in 1991, the recognition propelled him on a super-charged career as a multifaceted guitarist, vocalist, writer, engineer, and producer. Credited by keyboard legend Keith Emerson for inspiring him ...

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