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Announcing the debut release by the Nathan Douds Ensemble
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Michael Ricci
The Nathan Douds Ensemble is a group that performs original compositions that aim to combine any and all divergent musical styles into a new genre-less sound. While this is the primary goal of the group, it is easy to hear several very distinct influences including: contemporary and avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical and chamber music, rock/fusion, various world musics, and electro-acoustic music. The members of this ensemble have immensely diverse musical influences, educational backgrounds, and career paths, all of which are ...
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Lenora Zenzalai Helm's New CD: "I Love Myself When I'm Laughing..." Available Now
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Lenora Zenzalai Helm Releases New CD I Love Myself When I'm Laughing ...And Then Again When I'm Looking Mean and Impressive NEW YORK, NY: There comes a point in an artist's life when she hits her stride: when all of the musical, artistic and emotional elements align themselves perfectly in that artist's orbit; making her shine brighter than she ever did before. With the release of her new CD, I Love Myself When I'm Laughing ... And Then Again When ...
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Michael Dessen Trio: "Forget the Pixel" Puts a Personal Stamp on New Jazz
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Michael Dessen, trombonist-improviser-composer-bandleader. California based. Basic facts. His newest album Forget the Pixel (Clean Feed 222) brings his trombone, straight horn and electronically enhanced, into orbit with two excellent players: bassist Christopher Tordini, with a bold sound, a smart manipulation of composed motifs, a fluid ensemble presence and a soloist of Zen-like space arrangements. Then there's Dan Weiss, to my mind one of the luminous young drummers on the scene today. He doesn't glow in the dark, but his sense ...
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Wes Montgomery - Movin': The Complete Verve Recordings (Hip-O Select / Verve, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Guitarist Wes Montgomery had a lengthy run with Riverside Records during the 1950's and early 60's positioning himself as one of the leading guitarists in jazz. Looking to expand his horizons, Montgomery signed with Creed Taylor and the Verve Records label for a two-year stint which saw him recording a large amount of music, much of it in an accessible pop-flavored vein with string and brass arrangements woven around Montgomery's guitar. He also continued to record straight-ahead jazz and organ ...
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Geoff Vidal - She Likes That (2011)
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Something Else!
The toughest part about writing this review has been trying to decide if I should put it another the jazz category or the fusion jazz category. And whenever that conundrum happens, it's usually a good sign for the record. Geoff Vidal is an up-and-comer tenor saxophonist whose made his name in the Boston area as well as New Orleans before trying his luck in the Big Apple. It wasn't long before he found himself in demand in bands that played ...
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David Paul Mesler, with Tony Rondolone - Moonsongs (2011)
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Something Else!
ianist David Paul Mesler and saxophonist Tony Rondolone offer 13 takes on a theme during the appropriately titled Moonsongs, an album perfectly suited for twilight. Each of the tunes here, familiar though they may be, is approached with a thoughtful restraint—resulting in an album that is bold in its conception, yet often touchingly poignant in its execution. The duo opens with “Polkadots and Moonbeams," the Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke vehicle, remaking the song with a hushed, untroubled nerve. Rondolone's tone ...
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John Coltrane - The John Coltrane Impulse! Albums Volume 5 (Hip-O, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
This fifth and presumably final boxed set from Hip-O and Impulse! tracks the original release formats for the posthumous albums released under John Coltrane's name during the late sixties and early seventies. They include some scalding free-jazz recorded both live and in the studio and a controversial album where strings and other instruments are overdubbed onto the recorded music. The set begins with the Transition album, the album that changed my life, and introduced me to the intense world of ...
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Johnny Winter - Roots (2011)
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Something Else!
Johnny Winte returns to some of his earliest childhood favorites, and a few tracks from his first bar bands, on the aptly titled new project Roots. The Megaforce Records release boasts an all-star cast of guest artists including Derek Trucks, Vince Gill, Susan Tedeschi and his brother Edgar Winter, performing tracks originally done by everyone from Elmore James to Bobby “Blue" Bland. “They're songs I grew up really liking, things I was really influenced by," Winter told us. “It's very ...
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