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USA Meets Finland On Brain Inventory Trio's New Live Album "The Wall" By Konnex Records
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Esa Pietila
The recently formed Brain Inventory Trio not only bridges two cultures but also brings us a fusion of styles from jazz and folk music to rock, throwing all preconceptions out the window. With American pianist Michael Jefry Stevens and two Finns, saxophonist Esa Pietilä and cellist Juho Laitinen, in the line‐up, the trio's talents span across a multitude of musical genres. The upcoming album was recorded at a concert played in Helsinki in 2010. Both Michael Jefry Stevens and Esa ...
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New Album By An American Drummer In Iceland
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Scott McLemore
Scott McLemore, the American drummer living in Iceland has a new album. Remote Location features a quintet of Icelandic musicians, including Sunna Gunnlaugs on piano, saxophonist Óskar Guðjónsson (known for his work with Mezzoforte, Søren Dahl Jeppesen and Skúli Sverrison), guitarist Andrés Thor and bassist Róbert Thórhallsson. The album is a collection of original music that revolves around three chapters in McLemore's life, or rather the three places he has lived: Virginia, New York and Iceland. The songs are filled ...
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Arizona Dranes : Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat
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Tompkins Square
San Francisco-based label Tompkins Square has released the book+CD/eBook,'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes'. A singer sits at the piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete control of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes doesn't come close to the stature of those icons, she set the mold for rockin' singer/ pianists in 1926 with six “test records" that have stood the test of time. Until now, ...
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UK Prog Legends Curved Air Release "Live Atmosphere" CD/DVD
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK: Reformed in 2008 after a sabbatical of 18 years, Curved Air's concert and festival appearances in the UK, Japan, Italy, Malta, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Belgium continue to thrill a steadily increasing mass of new and old fans. Their experimental blends of classical themes, electronic sounds and pop/rock energy and beautiful, timeless songs are performed with fire and passion and tremendous musicianship. Now, much to the excitement of their fans worldwide, Curved Air have released a new CD/DVD ...
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Yazoo Records To Release Follow Up To Critically Acclaimed Collection Of Early Country And Blues Recordings
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1888 Media
46-Track Collection Culled From The 1920s Contains Rare Tracks From Charley Patton, Bukka White, Ishman Bracey, Dave Macon, Eck Robertson and Charlie Poole 54-Page Booklet Chronicles The History of Collecting Old 78 Records From The 1920s Through The 1960s New York, NY: On September 25, 2012, Yazoo Records (a division of Shanachie Entertainment), will release the ultimate collection of early country and blues recordings, with the illustrious 2-CD set, The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. This ...
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Red Garland + Oliver Nelson
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in March 1961, saxophonist Oliver Nelson [pictured above] teamed with pianist Red Garland for the first time. Five tracks were recorded with Richard Williams on trumpet, Peck Morrison on bass and Charlie Persip on drums. The session would be the only time Nelson and Garland recorded together—an odd and unfortunate circumstance. What's even stranger is that the five tracks were never issued on a single album. Instead, two of the recordings came out years later on Soul Burnin', which ...
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New Vocal Jazz Album Six Degrees Of Cool Spotlights Financial Woes Of The 99%
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Kathy Sanborn
Six Degrees of Cool, the newly released vocal jazz project from singer, pianist, and composer Kathy Sanborn, shines a light on the economic turmoil of the 99-percenters. Packing a punch on the nature of economic hard times are the songs “Bitter Winter” and “Shanty Man,” the last a song describing the effects on a family in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Sanborn says, “'Bitter Winter' describes the nature of the times we’re living in; homeless families, jobless people, and ...
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Trumpeter John Daversa Returns with Crackling Small Group. Special Guests Bob Mintzer and Gretchen Parlato
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Two for the Show Media
Street Date: September 25th, 2012 “John Daversa is pioneering a new jazz sound" —Marc Myers, Jazz Wax On the heels of 2011's high-energy, take-no-prisoners, boundary-stretching Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, acclaimed L.A.-based trumpeter-composer-arranger John Daversa scales things back for his upbeat follow up, Artful Joy. "It was difficult trying to find the right album name for this one," says Daversa, who has been leading a big band and small group concurrently for the past six years. “I didn't realize ...
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