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Roland Hanna - Colors from a Giant's Kit (2011)
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Something Else!
Why wasn't Roland Hanna, a first-rate piano improviser and brilliant accompanist, more famous? Newly unearthed sessions for the IPO Recordings release Colors From a Giant's Kit, again first-rate, again brilliant, don't do anything to solve the riddle. You hear Bud Powell, perhaps the most obvious influence here, in Hanna's restless complexity. You hear Tommy Flanagan, in the way Hanna can recede back so gracefully into the role of tasteful supporter to his own boldest impulses. You hear Art Tatum, when ...
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How to Throw a Fan Listening Party on Google+
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HypeBot
This guess post by Evolver.fm's Eliot Van Buskirk explains how to throw a listening party using Google+. While his emphasis is on sharing music with friends, it's not much of a stretch to see how those invited could be fans and how easy Google has made it to create an intimate interactive experience. Listening to music can be an intensely private experience. Nobody else hears a song the same way you do. But on the other hand, when was the ...
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Tom Waits: New Studio Album
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JamBase
NEW ALBUM BAD AS ME OUT OCTOBER 25 ON ANTI-RECORDS Bad As Me is Tom Waits' first studio album of all new music in seven years. This pivotal work refines the music that has come before and signals a new direction. Waits, in possibly the finest voice of his career, worked with a veteran team of gifted musicians and longtime co-writer/producer Kathleen Brennan. From the opening horn-fueled chug of “Chicago," to the closing barroom chorale of “New Year's Eve," Bad ...
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"Chora Baiao," New CD by Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo, Due Sept. 27
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Antonio Adolfo has long been an integral and influential behind-the-scenes player as a producer, composer, arranger, label entrepreneur, and educator—in his native Rio de Janeiro and beyond. In recent years, however, he has thankfully been devoting more time to recording his own music. First came a critically acclaimed collaboration with his vocalist daughter, 2007's Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya Ao Vivo/Live. Last year's La e Ca (Here and There), also featuring Saboya, tapped into standards by Americans and Brazilians such ...
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Claudio Scolari Defies Expectations with "Colors of Red Island"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Colors of Red Island (Principal MISV04) has what you might not expect to find. It's a disk by two drummers (Scolari and Daniele Cavalca) plus a trumpet (Scolari Simone). OK fine, you think, I can imagine what this will sound like. Well it does not, to my ears. First off, the drummers play other instruments as well (Scolari on flute, piano and synths; Cavalca on vibes and bass; both on percussion). So you get a chamber jazz-rock sort of ambient ...
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The Grateful Dead - What a Long Strange Trip It's Been (Warner Brothers 1977, 1990)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
During my college years, the dormitories rocked and rolled with the sounds of Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and especially The Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was still alive during this period and I have vivid memories of people I knew bailing out of classes if there was a Dead show within 500 miles of campus. While they were a band known for improvisational flights of fancy, they were not free improvisors making music whole cloth from nothing, what the Grateful Dead ...
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Mark Segger Sextet - The Beginning (2011)
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Something Else!
Debut albums can often be fun to explore, since you're not just exploring the music, but the artist, too. They're funner still when the artist bolts out the gate with his/her own unique plan of attack instead of the timid, first steps of an artist who's still feeling his way around by mimicking his influences. Canadian drummer, composer and bandleader Mark Segger took the former route for this first album released just this past March, The Beginning. Segger arrived in ...
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Barry Harris: Luminescence!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In April 1967, pianist Barry Harris assembled a magical sextet for what would turn out to be one of his most exciting record dates. The album for Prestige was called Luminescence! and it featured trombonist Slide Hampton, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Lennie McBrowne, with Harris on piano. The competitive spirit and drive for excellence is so uplifting on this date that it explodes with aggression and beauty. Bebop recordings were quaint ...
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