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Trombone Shorty: Two New Tracks from Forthcoming New Album

Source: JamBase
September 3, 2011

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Josh Nelson Releases "Discoveries" on Steel Bird Music, September 6

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
September 2, 2011

With his fifth album as a leader, Los Angeles-based pianist-composer- arranger Josh Nelson continues to broaden his scope with a fresh and wholly personal take on the jazz tradition. Brimming with stimulating ideas and chock-full of sterling solos from his very capable crew, Discoveries sets the bar higher than Nelson's previous acclaimed albums: 2007's Let It Go and 2009's I Hear A Rhapsody. Nelson also points to visionary writers Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as cornerstones for this project. “This ...

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Rich Halley's Quartet Goes Long and Strong on "Requiem for a Pit Viper"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
September 2, 2011

Tenorist-band- leader-tunesmith Rich Halley turns in one his very best efforts on the new CD Requiem for A Pit Viper (Pine Eagle 003). It's Rich plus trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bassist Chris Reed and drummer Carson Halley in a long set of originals with lots of room for solos. As is generally the case with Rich's band concept there is a distinct post-Ornettian vibe. The pianoless group generally keeps the time going and freeboppingly rides atop in their own way—calling on ...

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Moreland and Arbuckle - Just a Dream (Telarc, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
September 2, 2011

Guitarist Aaron Moreland and singer and harmonica player Dustin Arbuckle remain true to their blues roots while adding some roots rock energy to the proceedings on their latest recording. Rounded out by bass and drums, the duo has an appealing sound, rough and Earthy, like early Captain Beefheart or The Black Keys. The do a great job covering Tom Waits' “Heartattack and Vine," finding a kindred spirit in the warped story-song and it's bluesy accompaniment. The unusual “Gypsy Violin" breaks ...

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The New Orleans Social Club - Sing Me Back Home (2005)

Source: Something Else!
September 2, 2011

By Derrick Lord Faith is a difficult and complicated thing. If you understand that much you likely also realize that even the strongest faith is doomed to eventually be tested by hard times. When those tests come, questions follow: Have you learned from your challenges? Have you grown? Have you come to accept your limitations? Are you still capable of enjoying your successes despite your setbacks and failures? Have you kept your faith that good times are just around the ...

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Nick Lowe - The Old Magic (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 2, 2011

Growing older has made Nick Lowe grayer, a little quieter, but no less clever, no less relevant, and certainly no less off-handedly absorbing. He is the living, breathing, guitar-playing, Buddy Holly shade-wearing embodiment of the old saw about getting better with age. And that's saying something. After all, Lowe helped shape the New Wave sound of the late 1970s and '80s as a producer for Elvis Costello, the Pretenders and Graham Parker, even while establishing his own often overlooked career ...

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Xavier Gordon Releases "Just For You"

Source: xavier gordon
September 2, 2011

EMERGING JAZZ PIANIST RELEASES NEW EP ATLANTA—Smooth jazz pianist, Xavier Gordon, is releasing his first smooth jazz EP Just For You in Atlanta on September 1, 2011. The seven track recording preludes his next project, an LP to be released the beginning of 2012, featuring acclaimed musicians Lil John Roberts, Anthony Lockett and Jerry Livingston to name a few. Gordon released his first album at the age of 19, a Christmas EP, My Music Gave to Me. This was followed ...

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Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965, Reissue)

Source: Something Else!
September 1, 2011

For Junior Wells, there was just something about working with Buddy Guy. On Hoodoo Man Blues, a spark-filled mid-1960s Chicago blues album, Wells stops on more than one occasion, while letting loose these flying shards of harmonica blasts, to issue a pleased grunt. So very in the moment, his vocals start with an unguarded joy, a sexual power, then move all the way into open-hearted distortion. At the same time, Buddy Guy—called “Friendly Chap" (get it?) on the original back ...

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