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Art Blakey Goes to the Movies

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 30, 2012

Back in October 2010, I posted twice (here and here) about a little-known Art Blakey session recorded in May 1956 in New York for The Cool Voice of Rita Reys, a Dutch singer. Onthe album, Jazz Messengers Donald Byrd (tp), Hank Mobley (ts), Horace Silver (p), Doug Watkins (b) and Blakey (d) accompanied a singer, a rarity for the hard-bop group. Another one of these superb Blakey oddities is the soundtrack to Des Femmes Disparaissent. These tracks were recorded in ...

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The Friday Morning Listen: Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money (1968)

Source: Something Else!
January 28, 2012

The drama surrounding the whole SOPA and PIPA bills was kind of fun to see play out. It was like the corporate interests legislators who were behind the bills had absolutely no idea that their proposals might have unintended consequences: ones that would generate a firestorm of passion. Between the website blackouts and the avalanche of phone calls and emails that inundated congressional offices, it appears that some eyes have finally been opened. And then, shortly after the day of ...

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Zappa Family Trust to Release Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller

Source: JamBase
January 28, 2012

RELEASE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW; SHIPPING PLANNED FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13 The Zappa Family Trust is for the first time ever making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format. Recording for the album began in 1976 and was completed but was never released on Frank Zappa's label that Beefheart was signed to at the time, due to “all the usual financial difficulties in the proverbial record business, including breach of contract with the ...

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Vocalist Chloe Brisson Releases CD "Blame It on My Youth" Featuring Sheila Jordan, Matt Wilson and Others.

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 27, 2012

When a musical voice is discovered so young, it always captures the listener with amazement that so much can emanate from something so early in their talent. Well, that is the case with vocalist Chloe Brisson. Her first CD “Red Door Sessions" was released at the ripe old age of thirteen, and now she is back for her sophomore effort “Blame it On My Youth," where she has joined forces with some of the best that the jazz world has ...

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Ruthie Foster's CD 'Let It Burn' Shipping Tuesday, January 31; Takes to the Road

Source: conqueroo
January 26, 2012

2012 U.S. tour under way, with Grammy Museum webcast on street date and SXSW appearance. LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Ruthie Foster celebrates the release of her new album, Let It Burn, on Tuesday, January 31 with an appearance that night at Los Angeles' Grammy Museum. The performance and interview there will be available to fans throughout the world on a web simulcast . The event kicks off a tour that continues into late spring with stops in all major cities ...

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Tania Maria - Tempo (2012)

Source: Something Else!
January 26, 2012

One of Brazil's brightest performers of the last three decades, Tania Maria led a band by the age of 13, and has a distinctively exuberant vocal and percussive piano style as part of her wide skill set. An international pop star since the 1980's, she's probably best known for her worldwide pop hit song “Come With Me," but she's also prominent in the world of jazz. She's accomplished enough as a pianist to dazzle even when going on-on-one with a ...

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New Live CD by Chris Brubeck's Triple Play Due for Release Feb. 7 on Blue Forest Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 25, 2012

Over the past decade, Chris Brubeck (on bass, trombone, and piano), guitarist Joel Brown, and multi-instrumentalist Peter Madcat Ruth have honed a vast and vivid repertoire encompassing Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley standards, New Orleans grooves, jazz gems, and incisive originals. With all three contributing vocals, Triple Play delivers an epic sojourn through American music unlike any other band on the scene. Their new CD, Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center, features two Triple Play patriarchs as special guests: piano ...

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JazzSnaps: Randy Brooks (1946)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 25, 2012

Randy Brooks played trumpet like Harry James. Lots of pep and power with plenty of bent notes. Brooks recorded with Hal Kemp in the late 1930s, Claude Thornhill in '42 and Les Brown in '43 and '44. In 1945, Brooks formed a band that included tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and Getz's vocalist wife Beverly Byrne. The band recorded until 1947, the year of one of Brooks' biggest hits, Tenderly. But swing was his thing at a time when fans were ...

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