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Innovative Jazz Vocalist/Composer Jacqui Naylor Releases 'Treasures Of The Heart,' Her 12th Album
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Mouthpiece Music
Jacqui Naylor is one of the most captivating and innovative vocalists on the scene today. Her albums are not easy to characterize because they always take you on unexpected adventures with songs flavored with jazz, R&B, soul, and pop. The prolific recording artist, singer, and composer is now releasing her 12th album, Treasures of the Heart, comprising four re-imaginings of well-known jazz and pop standards and 10 original compositions penned by Naylor and her husband, pianist Art Khu, who also ...
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Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bill Evans performed his composition Waltz for Debby at dozens of clubs and concert halls and recorded it several times in the studio between 1955 and 1980. In my opinion, he aced it only once. Waltz for Debby sounds deceptively easy to play but it isn't. Having played Bill Evans transcriptions in my teens, I can tell you that it's loaded with complex passages that are easy to rush, trip over or simply miss the right feel. Which was true ...
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Adamo Delivers Lyrics In A Style That Would Make Soul Train’s Don Cornelius Smile
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All About Jazz
“Soul Glide” is the single from Tony Adamo’s upcoming album of the same name, and by the sound of it, you might not need your ears as much as dancing shoes to appreciate. Adamo delivers lyrics in a style that would make Soul Train’s Don Cornelius smile, and which back in the day would make people line up to try out their latest dance steps. The funkified team of Mike Clark/dr, Richie Goods/b, Rob Sudduth/ts, Chris Pimentel/g and John McKay/org ...
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Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna To Release New Collaborative Album 'Sea Of Hopeless Angels'
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
An unexpected concerto. The streets of Berlin. Nourishment and exhaustion. The celestial, moving among us. All of these things might describe (or, more accurately, permeate) Markus Reuter’s latest project—a spontaneous collaboration with Stefano Castagna. From a strictly Reuterian perspective, Sea of Hopeless Angels could be seen as a reaction to Markus’ furious and abrasive work with the free-rock improvisation quartet Anchor & Burden, one of his central priorities during 2022. At the same time, it stems directly from that project ...
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Mark Watkins Enhances His Celebrated Saxophone Quartet With 'Four + Six,' To Be Released March 29 On Jazz Hang Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Mark Watkins envelops his long-running saxophone quartet in lush, billowing textures on FOUR + Six, the band’s deliriously tuneful sixth album, set for a March 29 release on Jazz Hang Records. Watkins augments the core quartet of himself (soprano and tenor saxophones), Sandon Mayhew (tenor sax), Ray Smith (alto sax), and Jon Gudmundson (baritone sax) with Corey Christiansen (guitar); a three-piece rhythm section of Justin Nielsen (piano), Braun Khan (bass), and Kobie Watkins (no relation, drums); and the esteemed Gardner ...
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Backgrounder: Oliver Nelson - Taking Care of Business
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last week, following my series on organ combos, Bill Kirchner sent along a terrific Backgrounder suggestion: Oliver Nelson's Taking Care of Business, Nelson's second leadership date. Recorded in March 1960, the album featured Oliver Nelson (as,ts), Lem Winchester (vib), Johnny “Hammond" Smith (org), George Tucker (b) and Roy Haynes (d). The tracks: Trane Whistle (Oliver Nelson) Doxy (Sonny Rollins) In Time (Nelson) Lou's Good Dues Blues (Nelson) All the Way (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) Groove (Nelson) Talk about a ...
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Abdullah Ibrahim: 3
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When I interviewed pianist Abdullah Ibrahim by phone in South Africa in 2011, he told me how much he looked forward to the arrival of the ice cream truck growing up in Cape Town in the late 1940s. But ice cream was only part of the joy. The truck blared recordings by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, music that first exposed him to American jazz. His other big inspirations were the recordings by pianists Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons and ...
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Jim Rotondi: Finesse
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of the first pairings of a jazz soloist with a big band and strings dates back to December 1947, and the event was largely an accident. At the time, Clef Records owner and producer Norman Granz was on a recording tear, trying to wax as much jazz as possible in advance of a threatened January 1, 1948 recording ban by the musicians union. Granz rented out an empty Carnegie Hall to record a batch of top artists, including alto ...
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