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Buck Owens Pre-Capitol 1950s Recordings Reissued on Rockbeat
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conqueroo
Owens' tracks for Pep, Chesterfield and La Brea Records, recorded in Hollywood and Bakersfield, illustrate the roots of Owens' sound with collaborators like Fuzzy Owen and Corky Jones LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Buck Owens is synonymous with the Bakersfield sound of country music that also gave rise to the Maddox brothers and Rose, Tommy Collins, Ferlin Husky and in later years Merle Haggard. Owens' earliest recordings for independent labels in Southern California—ahead of his lucrative career on Capitol Records in the '60s ...
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Supremes' and Temptations' 50th Anniversaries--Motown/UMe to Release CD's/DVD's Including Rare Tracks and Footage
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Muse Media
IN CELEBRATION OF THE SUPREMES' AND THE TEMPTATIONS' 50TH ANNIVERSARIES MOTOWN/UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES TO RELEASE EXCITING NEW CD'S AND DVD'S CONTAINING RARE TRACKS AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED FOOTAGE Original Supremes Member Mary Wilson And The Temptations To Perform Together For The First Time In Decades LOS ANGELES—In honor of the 50th anniversaries of The Supremes and The Temptations, two of popular music's most celebrated and socially significant singing groups, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), which manages the classic recorded catalog of Motown, ...
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Anzic Records To Release "There" From Drummer/Composer Ernesto Cervini
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Featuring Joel Frahm, Adrean Farrugia & Dan Loomis Available September 27, 2011 On September 27, 2011 Anzic Records proudly releases the much-anticipated new recording from drummer/composer Ernesto Cervini, There. Recorded live at the end of November, 2010, at Cory Weed's Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver, There, features Joel Frahm (saxophones), Adrean Farrugia (piano) and Dan Loomis (bass) and Cervini (drums.) The album follows up Cervini's previous recording distributed by Anzic Records, Little Black Bird (2009),which received heaps of ...
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BJURecords to Release "From Now On" from Guitarist/Composer Oscar Penas
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
FROM NOW ON features: Oscar Peñas(guitar, compositions), Dan Blake (tenor & soprano saxophones), Moto Fukushima (six string electric bass), Richie Barshay (drums) With Special Guests: Gil Goldstein (accordion, piano), Franco Pinna (bombo legüero) “Oscar's music is inviting and from the soul; finely cultivated and fully realized...his writing and playing have beautiful motion and uniquely sensuous melodies."- Esperanza Spalding “Oscar is a very dedicated musician with a unique sound and creative writing" —Luciana Souza “Oscar Peñas has found a way to ...
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Chris Potter and the Dr Big Band - Transatlantic (Red Dot Music, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Saxophonist Chris Potter has become one of the leading lights of the mainstream jazz scene, playing with the likes of Dave Holland and Paul Motian, and recording several albums as a leader. But seldom have we had the opportunity to hear him as the featured soloist in a big band. On this project, he is the composer, arranger and principal soloist with the Danish Radio Big Band, and this gives us a chance to hear several different aspects of Potter ...
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John Zorn - Masada Guitars (2003)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski John Zorn's Masada is an interesting group. The way I've come to describe them is “Ornette Coleman-listens-to-klezmer." While that's not the only way to get there, it'll do. Pick any recording from the Masada series and you'll hear some fine interplay between Zorn's sax, the trumpet of Dave Douglas and Greg Cohen's bass. All of this supported (and sometimes shattered) by the fricken' exquisite drumming of Joey Baron. So what to make of Masada Guitars? Pretty cool ...
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John Graas: Complete '50s Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What's surprising about the French horn isn't that it became a jazz instrument but that there were so many fine jazz players in the late 1940s and '50s. Among the best were Junior Collins, Julius Watkins, David Amram, John Cave, Willie Ruff, Tony Miranda, Jimmy Buffington and Gunther Schuller. But perhaps the finest of them all was John Graas [pictured]. It's his mellow bellow that stands out in many of the best West Coat jazz orchestras, particularly in bands led ...
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Sam Rivers and the Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (Mosaic Select 38, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
When composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers (bio in pdf) moved to Orlando, Florida in the early 1990's, he had no intention of retiring. Soon the cream of the crop of the Florida improvised music scene began to gravitate around Rivers and a big band playing his intricately progressive, yet accessible charts began to emerge. After a brief moment in the sun, recording two star-studded orchestral albums for RCA, Rivers began to concentrate on the Florida ensemble, documenting them on the ...
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