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Karrin Allyson is USA Today #1 CD of Year; Grammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album
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Seth Cohen PR
GRAMMY NOMINATED FOR BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM USA TODAY's Elysa Gardner has chosen Karrin Allyson's 'Round Midnight as her #1 Album of 2011, in a Year-End Poll of USA TODAY's top critics. It's the latest accolade in a year of extraordinary acclaim for Allyson's stunning CD. 'Round Midnight has been nominated for a 2012 GRAMMY AWARD for Best Jazz Vocal Album, marking Allyson's fourth consecutive nomination in this major category. The Grammys take place on February 12, 2012, and Allyson ...
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The Lucien Dubuis Trio and Marc Ribot - Ultime Cosmos (2009)
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Something Else!
Ultime Cosmos was not serious. At least, not serious in that We're Wearing Nice Suits, We're Going To Play Jazz kind of way. Heck, this wasn't even jazz, not in spirit anyway. A quick read of the instrumental lineup would definitely make a person think 'jazz'—contrabass clarinet, guitar, bass, drums—but the record had more of a rock/funk spirit. I can imagine Stanley Crouch turning up his nose. That's a good thing. Though Dubuis did switch over to alto here and ...
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RareBit Readies "Daizo" LP on Non Projects + Premieres "Emergence"
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Leeor Brown
With the release of The Destroyer EP in 2011, musician / composer and visual artist Justin Hopkins, aka RareBit quickly established himself as an artist who knows his craft. Whereas The Destroyer, a collection of Justin's earlier work, dealt in dizzying cut and paste compositional techniques and songs with short run-times, Daizo, his full-length debut, takes us on an excursion of much greater distance. The same acute attention to sonic detail remains, however Daizo, tracks take advantage of the long ...
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Rick Nelson, Mark Lindsay, Sean Bonniwell and Hank Thompson Headline New Real Gone Music Reissues
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conqueroo
February releases also include Hank Thompson (on 160-gram vinyl), McGough & McGear (from U.K. band Scaffold), funkster Eddie Hazel and Red Bird Records girl groups. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Rick Nelson's The Complete Epic Recordings and Mark Lindsay's The Complete Columbia Singles headline the February release schedule for Real Gone Music, the new indie label helmed by reissue veterans Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana. The February rollout will include the late Sean Bonniwell's only solo album, Close (recorded under the name T.S. ...
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New Dan Wilensky Quartet Record: "Back In The Mix"
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Dan Wilensky
Dan Wilensky's Back In The Mix features Mark Soskin (piano), Dean Johnson (bass), Tony Moreno (drums), and special guest Russ Johnson (trumpet) in a musical tour de force. Wilensky's 4th recording as a leader includes new arrangements of Cole Porter's “Falling In Love With Love," Gross and Lawrence's “Tenderly," “Lament" by the great J.J. Johnson, and six new Wilensky originals. The creative virtuosity of long-time band mates Dean Johnson and Tony Moreno propel the group to greater heights. Russ Johnson, ...
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"Pan AM: Music from and Inspired by the Original Series" CD Coming January 17
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conqueroo
Soundtrack features Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Brenda Lee, Sergio Mendes, Connie Francis and more. NEW YORK, N.Y.—Pan Am: Music From and Inspired By the Original Series, a collection of music from and inspired by the ABC television drama, slated for January 17, 2012 CD release from Verve Music Group, is a non-stop flight back to the early '60s. The collection features 14 songs by Buddy Greco, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz & Joo Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Peggy ...
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Charlie Haden and Hank Jones - Come Sunday (2012)
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Something Else!
It's a given that show tunes and Tin Pan Alley songs have provided plenty of fodder for jazz interpretations, especially in the decades before there were enough quality standards written specifically for jazz to fill up a fake book. There's long been another, almost forgotten, source for great jazz treatments, and that's the sturdy old spirituals still being heard in thousands of churches across the country every first day of the week. On this topic, I always think of Grant ...
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Bluesy cover of Leonard Cohen classic highlights eclectic new album from Australia's Joanna Melas
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Lauren Rogers
It takes a certain amount of courage to cover a Leonard Cohen song. Doing it successfully is another matter. However, Australian singer Joanna Melas manages to accomplish the nearly impossible, offering a rendition of Cohen's timeless “First We Take Manhattan" that can actually stand on its own. Cohen's original version is a masterpiece of cinematic moodiness and grim delivery; its icy keyboards reflected the glacial temperatures of Cohen's detached vocal work. Melas thankfully takes a radically different approach, transforming its ...
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