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Tony Bennett 'Romantic' Set in Time for Valentine's Day
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conqueroo
Of the numerous balladeers to emerge on the music scene in the years during and immediately after World War II, Tony Bennett is considered one of the most versatile and enduring. In a career that spans six decades, he has embraced a host of styles, including swing, pop, jazz, show tunes, orchestral music and more. Along the way, he has earned more than a dozen Grammy Awards and scores of Grammy nominations. Even now, in his mid-80s, he remains an ...
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Roger Waters: After Dark Side, Pink Floyd Was Just 'Clinging to the Trademark'
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Something Else!
In some ways, time seems to have softened Roger Waters' feelings about his old band, at least based on comments he made Wednesday on the Howard Stern radio program. But he can still be brutally honest about their legacy. Waters, the creative engine behind Pink Floyd's multimedia smash hit The Wall, famously dragged the remaining members into court when they chose to continue recording under the band moniker without him in the 1980s—filing papers that called the group “a spent ...
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Bruce Springsteen: New Album Wrecking Ball out 3/6
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JamBase
NEW ALBUM OUT MARCH 6 ON COLUMBIA RECORDS Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball has been set for March 6 release on Columbia Records. Marking his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball features 11 new Springsteen songs and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. A special edition of Wrecking Ball will also be available and include two bonus tracks and exclusive artwork and photography. Said long-time manager Jon Landau, “Bruce has dug down as ...
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Modern Jug Band SANKOFA To Release The Uptown Strut On March 27th Via Kingswood Records
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1888 Media
Album Features Dom Flemons of Carolina Chocolate Drops, Professor Louie And John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful New York, NY: In February 2006, Sankofa Strings, a progressive collective comprised of percussionist Sule Greg Wilson along with multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons and singer Rhiannon Giddens, from the Grammy-Award Winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, were taped in concert for inclusion in the award-winning jug band documentary Chasin' Gus' Ghost, a film which chronicles a worldwide quest to assemble a comprehensive lineage to Gus Cannon, ...
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Loga Ramin Torkian's "Mehraab" Out January 31
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Chris M. Slawecki
Iranian born composer and multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian is internationally recognized for his ground-breaking work with world music groups Niyaz and Axiom Of Choice, both of which he co-founded. Currently based in Montreal, Canada, Loga is now releasing his first solo album Mehraab, which brings his exceptional musicianship along with his highly innovative and complex sensibility for composition to the forefront of a project. The album features the astounding voice of Persian classical singer Khosro Ansari and draws a great ...
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Matt Flinner Trio - Winter Harvest (2011)
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Something Else!
Following in the New Acoustic tradition of David Grisman, Tony Rice and Mike Marshall, the Matt Flinner Trio likewise starts with the tempo and cadence of bluegrass and injects the soul of folk, the elegance of chamber music and the thrill of jazz. But these guys go one step further: they each compose, rehearse and introduce to live audiences their songs all in the same day. Winter Harvest was literally written on the road, as the MFT had over 200 ...
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The Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints (1967; 2011 Reissue)
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Something Else!
Sprouting forth from the San Fernando Valley, located in Los Angeles County, the Strawberry Alarm Clock acquired instant success when their debut single, “Incense and Peppermints" zoomed to the No. 1 spot on the national charts in the autumn of 1967. Drafted of zany lyrics, culled from a rhyming dictionary, the song not only mirrored the creative insanity of the era, but subsequently flashed drifts of cool and groovy moves. Rigged with fizzy fuzz guitars, escorted by the tinny tone ...
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Percussion Virtuoso River Guerguerian To Release Highly Anticipated New Solo CD "Grooves for Odd Times"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville, NC—The percussion community is buzzing with excitement about the highly anticipated forthcoming solo CD by virtuosic Multi-Percussionist/Composer/Educator River Guerguerian titled 'Grooves for Odd Times.' River has been inspiring audiences with his ecstatic and versatile percussion for over 30 years, and has performed and recorded with such groups as the BBC Concert Orchestra, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Tan Dun, Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble, Paul Winter Consort, Chuck Berry, Sophie B. Hawkins, The Billy Sea and Ziggy Marley/Gipsy Kings. He also co-founded ...
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