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Ani Difranco: New Album

Source: JamBase
November 4, 2011

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? OUT JANUARY 17 Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ani DiFranco has announced the upcoming release of her eagerly awaited new album. Which Side Are You On? arrives via the Grammy-winning artist's own Righteous Babe Records on January 17, 2012. Which Side Are You On? marks DiFranco's first studio album in more than three years. The collection features 11 new songs alongside a radically reworked rendition of the classic title song, famously popularized by the one and only Pete Seeger ...

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Opus 5 Release New CD on Criss Cross Jazz

Source: Two for the Show Media
November 4, 2011

Introducing Opus 5 Seamus Blake (Ts) Alex Sipiagin (Tp / Flh) David Kikoski (P / Fender Rhodes) Boris Kozlov (B) Donald Edwards (D) An empathetic power of five is at work in the collaborative project known as Opus 5, working in the long shadow of the great vintage quintets, ala Blakey and pre-electric Miles Davis. On the front line, tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake and rising star trumpeter Alex Sipiagin—a Russian in NYC—are bolstered by pianist David Kikoski, drummer Donald Edwards ...

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The Dukes Of Dixieland Are Back!

Source: Shelly Liebowitz
November 3, 2011

The original Dukes of Dixieland, the band formed by the Assunto brothers, are back and they are on SRI Jazz. The much anticipated original Audio Fidelity recordings by the Dukes of Dixieland have been requested by so many fans and SRI Jazz is proud to announce the release of the first of this series of recordings, “The Dukes of Dixieland," will be available soon at all major online retail outlets including Amazon and iTunes. “This much awaited digitally re-mastered release ...

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Jazz Singer Monika Borzym Sets NY Concert Debut for 11/28 at Rockwood, Earns Early Raves for CD 'Girl Talk'

Source: Seth Cohen PR
November 3, 2011

Favorable Early Coverage Runs, as 21-Year Old Chanteuse Monika Borzym Delivers Jazz Vocals for the Next Generation and Reinterprets the Music of Amy Winehouse, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, Abbey Lincoln and more, on 'Girl Talk' Digital Release Available Now in the U.S. via Sony Poland NYC Debut Concert is Confirmed for 11/28 at Rockwood Music Hall Favorable early reviews have greeted 'Girl Talk,' the debut CD by 21-year old vocalist Monika Borzym. On the new album, released digitally in the ...

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Michael McNeill Trio: Passageways

Source: Michael McNeill
November 3, 2011

Pianist Michael McNeill releases his debut CD as a leader, with renowned improvisers Ken Filiano (bass) and Phil Haynes (drums). The disc features five of McNeill's original compositions, performed live in Buffalo, NY in December 2010. Buffalo engineer Bill Sack recorded the concert, and Jon Rosenberg provided the mixing and mastering. CDs and digital downloads may be ordered through BandCamp, where you can also listen to three of the five tracks in their entirety. Some comments from the pianist/composer: Most ...

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The David Arner Trio: Out/in the Open, 2007

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
November 3, 2011

Pianist David Arner is a musical voice that does not fit easily into the various schools of improvisation that are widely influential among the free school of players. He's managed to forge a path that does not cross directly the Cecil Taylors, the Paul Bleys, the Keith Jarretts, or the Bill Evans influenced players. Not that he has ignored these stylistic landmarks. Clearly not. But he chooses to go his own way. You can hear that quite readily in the ...

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Opus 5 - Introducing Opus 5 (Criss Cross, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
November 3, 2011

On January 27, 2011, five veterans of the Mingus Big Band, and heavy-hitters on the mainstream jazz scene in their own right met to record an album under the collective name Opus 5. The band consists of Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone, Alex Sipiagin on trumpet and flugelhorn, David Kikoski on electric and acoustic piano, Donald Edwards on drums and Boris Kozlov on bass. The group channels the hard-bop giants like Art Blakey and pre-electric Miles Davis, but brings a ...

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The Curtis Brothers - Completion of Proof (2011)

Source: Something Else!
November 3, 2011

The virile, confrontational jazz of the 1960s is reborn on the Curtis Brothers' Completeion of Proof. Siblings Luques and Zaccai Curtis perform in the brash, muscular style of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, even as they confront thorny moral issues with the same veracity as John Coltrane. Luques (bass) and Zaccai (piano) cement the Blakey connection by inviting former Messengers Brian Lynch on trumpet and Donald Harrison on alto. More specifically, the rhythm-focused recording seem to have as a primary focus ...

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