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Electric Cowbell Fall/Winter Vinyl Releases out October 11th
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Press Junkie PR
Electric Cowbell Records is hot on the heels of its critically acclaimed debut compilation 101 Things To Do In Bongolia, which is a sonic brochure of the label's first batch of singles from 2010-2011 with the addition of some bonus tracks and remixes. The compilation has sparked gushing quotes like, “Electric Cowbell is Brooklyn's hardest-working new label" from The Village Voice to “this is how Sub Pop started out" by Midwest Record. Now the label is ready to release its ...
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Cas Haley On Tour Now + Announces Christmas EP
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Press Junkie PR
Texas-based singer-songwriter Cas Haley will release a Christmas EP this coming November 8th on Easy Star Records. The release features four Holiday classics arranged by Cas, in some cases incorporating elements of Texas swing and reggae, but always focused on Cas's incredible voice. The fifth song on the EP, the title track “Gifts To Give," is an original song written by Cas. The EP comes out amidst a busy run of tour dates lasting from September 13th through November 23rd, ...
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Greg Lewis - Organ Monk (CDBaby, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Thelonious Monk's music is so iconic and malleable that it lends itself to almost any instrument imaginable. Organist Greg Lewis leads a wonderfully swinging trio on a Monk themed program accompanied by Cindy Blackman on drums and Ron Jackson on guitar. I have always found a particular joyousness in Monk's music as if it was written to dance to. This trio keeps the same vision, keeping the songs short, to the point and focused on those indelible melodies. Their swinging, ...
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Christian McBride Big Band - The Good Feeling (2011)
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Something Else!
In a way, Christian McBride has been working on this big-band project all along. The talented jazz bassist's interest in this format began almost 20 years ago when he crafted the still-fonky “Bluesin' in Alphabet City" for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. A new version—which, dare I say it, is fonkier still—can be heard on The Good Feeling, connecting the dots from that long-ago spark to this Mack Avenue release, issued on Tuesday. ...
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Marcus Strickland - Triumph of the Heavy, Volumes 1 and 2 (2011)
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Something Else!
The story continues. Yesterday saxophonist Marcus Strickland's new, double-disc record Triumph Of The Heavy, Volumes 1 & 2 went on sale, and the narrative of this record begins where the story of his prior one, Idiosyncrasies (2009), left off. On that CD, Strickland dives head first into the tricky balancing act of leading a sax trio, with bassist Ben Williams and drummer E.J. Strickland, his twin brother. He made it even more challenging by not falling back on tried-and-true standards, ...
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Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood: New Live Album out November 8
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JamBase
MEDESKI SCOFIELD MARTIN & WOOD TO RELEASE MSMW LIVE: IN CASE THE WORLD CHANGES IT'S MIND On November 8, 2011, Indirecto Records releases MSMW LIVE: In Case the World Changes Its Mind, a double-live album featuring guitar guru John Scofield and genrebusting improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood first recorded together on Scofield's A GO GO (Verve 1998), a project that united the group on material composed by Scofield and interpreted by all four ...
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Alvin's Swinging Cousins
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1959, a furious race began between two sets of squeaky-voiced woodland creatures. You're surely familiar with Alvin and the Chipmunks, that trio of furry vocalists with sped-up voices who had a thing for pop music. Well, they also had company. There was a bebopping duo known as the Nutty Squirrels, created by Alexander “Sascha" Burland and Don Elliott on sped-up vocals. The result sounded like Lambert, Hendricks and Ross on helium, and there even was a hit—Uh-Oh (a YouTube clip ...
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René Marie to Show Us Her Black Lace Freudian Slip
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GoMedia PR
René Marie, the award winning jazz, soul and blues singer-songwriter whose voice has been compared by critics to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn and whose social advocacy to Nina Simone's and Abbey Lincoln's, will be releasing her new album, Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema Music,) on October 11. Black Lace Freudian Slip is a collection of thirteen original songs written by René Marie and recorded with her trio of Kevin Bales on piano, Rodney Jordan on bass and Quentin Baxter ...
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