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"Rise and Fall" by Hamilton Sterling - CD Release

Source: Hamilton Sterling
August 29, 2011

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Musical Alchemist Janet Robbins Releases "Song of the Gypsy Tree"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
August 29, 2011

CA—Weaving sonic tales of magic and mysticism, Janet Robbins has released her fourth album 'Song of the Gypsy Tree.' Described as “moody, laconic, enticing, sometimes baffling," Janet's music possesses a “dark beauty and symphonic grandeur." With ethereal ambient soundscapes intertwined with world music rhythms and hauntingly beautiful vocals, Janet's work continues in the path of her contemporaries Mike and Sally Oldfield, Kate Bush and Gilli Smyth. “This is what you might listen to after you are awakened from cryo-sleep and ...

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David Sylvian - Blemish (2003)

Source: Something Else!
August 29, 2011

By Tom Johnson It isn't necessarily that blemish was so drastically different than anything David Sylvian had done before. He'd done ambient, both alone and with such visionaries as Holger Czukay and Robert Fripp, and some of it verged on being noise to me. (I'm not a fan of noise-as-music, but I do like good ambient.) And he's of course done his share of vocal pieces—first as the voice of Japan and then solo. But never before had he blended ...

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Greg Burk - Many Worlds (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski Several years ago, I happened upon a book called A Pattern Language. It was an odd purchase for me, because I'm not really an architecture person, at least not in the grand “Oooh, majestic building!" sense of the word. No, I was drawn to the book because the architectural patterns drawn and discussed—layouts of rooms, alcoves, gathering places, neighborhoods, cities—made a lot of sense to me and seemed to somehow appeal to my music-loving side. Thinking about ...

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Terry Vosbein: Fleet Street

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 29, 2011

Remember when jazz orchestras skillfully adapted the music of Broadway musicals? Notable examples from the '50s and '60s include Les Brown's Dance to South Pacific (1958) and Stan Kenton's West Side Story (1961). Rather than send up cute pop caricatures, the best arrangers crafted interpretations that often were bigger, bolder and more dynamic than the originals. Add Terry Vosbein's new Fleet Street (MFM) to the list. Terry who? Terry is a composer, arranger and educator at Washington & Lee University ...

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Cornell Dupree Last Recording Released on Dialtone Records

Source: Edward stout
August 29, 2011

Cornell Dupree: I'm Alright (Dialtone Records, DT0023) I'm Alright, has the stamp of Cornell through and through. Cornell's theory was to surround himself with great musicians and he got what he needed from the young hotbed of players in Austin TX. In the studio Cornell would put out an idea, roll it around and just start playing with the song. On “Doin' Alright" Cornell and George Porter came up with the basic idea and everyone else chimed in with their ...

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Brian Settles/Central Union - Secret Handshake (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 29, 2011

There's something odd I noticed about this record from the opening moments: there's a piano on it. Why is that so bizarre you ask? I don't think there's ever been a piano before on an Engine Studios recording. Then again, there hasn't been a Brian Settles record before either. Last June, both of these firsts made their way to the public when Settles' Secret Handshake album went on sale. Saxophone specialist Settles first got notice here as a key component ...

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Steve Kuhn with Strings - Promises Kept (2004)

Source: Something Else!
August 29, 2011

By Mark Saleski I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of jazz “with strings" records that 'work' for me. This is a somewhat mysterious phenomenon as jazz and improvised music is food to me. As necessary as oxygen. Along those lines, a good string quartet is a thing not only of beauty ... it is beauty. But then you go and mix these things together and, well, they don't wanna mix. Here I'm thinking of ...

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