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Space Genetics: Volume 3 - New Music From Paul Scea And Eric Haltmeier
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Eric Haltmeier
With the release of Volume 3, SPACE GENETICS—the avant-jazz duo of Paul Scea and Eric Haltmeier—continue their exploration of the hybridization of improvisation, electronic music, jazz, and controllerism. Recorded in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the album features eight compositions that merge woodwind improvisations with digitally manipulated audio samples, analog and digital synthesizers, and an angular jazz sensibility. Their 2009 release, Volume 1, was created through an Internet-based collaboration. Scea and Haltmeier shared compositional ideas and audio samples online, working toward developing compositions ...
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Chet Baker: New York, 1964
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
By 1964, Chet Baker was damaged goods. The '50s had been a series of ego flights and emotional letdowns for the trumpeter. The vulnerable and naturally pretty look he had cooly projected at the start of the decade was lifted by Hollywood in the form of James Dean and, Montgomery Clift. By 1958, Baker's sensitive-victim look was out, replaced by tough guys like Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Burt Lancaster. Even jazz on the West Coast had lifted much of ...
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The Funk Ark: "High Noon" + Tour Dates + MP3
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Press Junkie PR
After a highly praised debut, Washington DC’s The Funk Ark is back with an even tighter follow up album. Less than a year has passed since the release of From The Rooftops on ESL Music and the world funk ensemble has established itself as one of the strongest players in the scene both in the studio and with their high-octane live performances. High Noon is the title of The Funk Ark’s sophomore release and was recorded and produced by Adrián ...
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The Germs, Drocs, Mick Fleetwood'z Zoo, Jerry Reed Headline Real Gone Music May Releases
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conqueroo
All of that plus the Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks, Volume 29 too. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Real Gone Music enters its first Spring with a potpourri of reissues that are definitely not garden variety, with releases ranging from hardcore punk to power pop to Motor City rock 'n' roll, doo-wop and Summer of Love fixtures the Grateful Dead, all due in late May. The only album by seminal Los Angeles punkers The Germs, (GI), will be reissued alongside the Drocs' ...
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Matthias Broede, Harmonica Player, Pianist & Composer From Germany With New CD
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Matthias Broede
LINER NOTES by Karsten Mützelfeldt (Jazz Journalist, Germany, WDR, Deutschlandfunk, Jazz Thing) for the new CD “Space Between Intervals" recorded by Matthias Broede's SPEAK TRES: It's a matter of fact that in the history of Jazz the harmonica plays a role as small as its size and had to share its place in the polls with other “miscellaneous instruments". These reasons make it inevitable to write some introductive words. Even though Toots Thielemans isn't anymore the only name who ...
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Roger Chong’s Love Affair With Jazz - Toronto Guitarist/Composer Releases Fine New CD
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Dr. Jazz Operations
ROGER CHONG: SEND A LITTLE LOVE Music fans can now love the work of Roger Chong one more time. Inspired by the very positive response to his first jazz CD, Love Me One More Time, the Toronto-based guitarist and composer has quickly delivered an even more impressive sophomore effort, Send A Little Love (out on May 8, 2012). To record Send A Little Love, Roger followed the process that worked so well on Love Me One More Time. He reunited ...
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When Stillness Speaks: The Beautiful Silences & Rocking Details of Elin Furubotn’s International Debut Album
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Chris M. Slawecki
Norwegian singer-songwriter Elin Furubotn hears an entire world in the tiny, delightful details: a turn of phrase drifting from the next café table over, the deep silence of a Scandinavian mountain forest, the fleeting passage of thoughts and play of sounds. Widely respected in Norway for her genre-spanning work, Furubotn’s smiling curiosity and striking musical presence find a new path on Heilt Nye Vei (Ozella Music), her first international release. With her close collaborator, respected and creative Norwegian saxophonist Karl ...
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Texas Legend Billy Joe Shaver Releases 'Live at Billy Bob's Texas,' First Newly Recorded Performances in Nearly Two Decades
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conqueroo
Twenty-two track package features CD and DVD; includes two new previously unreleased songs WACO, Texas — Country songwriting icon and honky tonk hero Billy Joe Shaver and his Heart of Texas Band offer the best from his catalog of legendary songs in concert from the stage of the world's largest honky tonk. Shaver's Live at Billy Bob's Texas, slated to be released July 17, 2012 on Smith Music Group is his first album in five years. The fully loaded special ...
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