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Chad Wackerman: Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations - Zappa Drummer Releases New CD Featuring Guitar Legend Allan Holdsworth.
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Two for the Show Media
"Chad Wackerman has a beautiful ear for harmonies and melodies that lets your inner musician soar, and with 'Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations' it comes together and expresses his potential as an artist. All the musicians who play on this record are the inspired elite and on this CD they create a magnificent and ethereal listening experience." —Steve Vai Four masters of musical improvisation collaborate on the latest release from esteemed drummer Chad Wackerman. Known for his work with Frank Zappa, ...
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Chicago-based Jazz Vocalist Milton Suggs Releases “Lyrical, Volume 1” New CD On Skiptone Music Label, July 24
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Milton Suggs
In 2010 with his debut album as a leader, Things to Come, vocalist Milton Suggs established himself as an artist to be aware of and watch closely. He cements that idea with a strong showing in 2012 with the first volume in an anticipated series of albums simply and appropriately entitled, “Lyrical.” Lyrical, Volume I was recorded in late 2011 and early in 2012 with some fine instrumental talent out of the midwest. Detroit pianist Michael Jellick, bassist Joshua Ramos, ...
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Corky Hale: The Swinging Harp
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Around the time that Corky Hale became a first-call studio harpist in Holloywood in the mid-1950s, she recorded two superb small-group jazz albums: Herbie Harper and Corky Hale Plays George Gershwin and Vernon Duke. On both 1955 albums, Corky was featured playing the harp almost like a guitar—displaying a swinging technique, gorgeous chord phrasing and smart line improvisation. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Back in January, when I posted about jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby, I included a capsule section ...
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New Release: In The Moment - Ra-kalam Bob Moses, Mike Armando, Andy Golba
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Mike Armando
New Release: mja Records Label Group: In The Moment Musicians: Mike Armando - guitar, Andy Golba - bass, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses - drums Belly Dancer Gone Funky (selected tune from CD) A music creation that was recorded, In The Moment no charts, just pure creation of music from within bringing it to you. This track from the CD In The Moment is a combination of drum, guitar and bass that takes you on a journey to another land and era. ...
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Mykazoo Music And Universal To Release Randy Kaplan's Blues CD For Kids, "Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie" July 10
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Beth Blenz-Clucas
Los Angeles, CA: myKaZoo Music, the new family imprint of Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), announces its second release, Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie, Randy Kaplan’s child-friendly versions of country blues and ragtime numbers from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The new CD, featuring extensive liner notes so that kids may learn more about America’s great musical heritage, will be available on July 10 wherever music is sold. Randy Kaplan is a nationally acclaimed artist that Time Out New York Kids magazine ...
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Project Trio's Random Roads Collection Surges To The Top Of The Classical And Jazz Charts
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Ann Rosenblum
Random Roads Collection, the latest CD of the high-octane chamber music group, PROJECT Trio, debuted this week at No. 15 on Billboard's U.S. classical music charts, No. 2 on the Nielsen SoundScan Canada's classical charts and, in a rare feat, simultaneously debuted at No. 17 on the trade magazine's jazz charts. The catalogue-spanning disc is PROJECT Trio's first recording for Tummy Touch Records. The disc includes tracks from each of the Trio's earlier recordings: Winter in June, Brooklyn, and Project ...
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Delta Groove Records Releases The Mannish Boys New Album Double Dynamite
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Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
Van Nuys, CA: Delta Groove Music is releasing a new double CD from its roster artist The Mannish Boys titled Double Dynamite. This will the band’s fifth studio recording. The Delta Groove label prides itself with select releases that celebrate the blues tradition and with this smokin’ hot release the blues come alive with 13 tracks on each CD. 26 tracks of rockin’ blues is a big helping of music by any standard but the difference is this is the ...
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Nelson Riddle + Phil Silvers
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz historian Dan Morgenstern told me about this LP when I interviewed him for my Wall Street Journal piece on the history of Taps last week. We were talking about the influence of Taps and bugle calls on jazz and popular song. “I seem to recall a Phil Silvers album, where he's in his Sgt. Bilko outfit on the cover and bugle calls were used as the basis for songs," Dan said. A little research later and voila! Phil Silvers ...
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