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Stan Killian - Unified (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 21, 2011

Stan Killian's Unified is an attractive album right from the first listen. Actually, even before that first listen. Checking out the names of horn players playing alongside Killian listed on the back cover of the CD case, I saw there was already a recipe for success: Dave Binney (alto sax), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet) and Roy Hargrove (trumpet). But upon taking in this album, it became appealing for another reason, a reason I couldn't nail down until I read these words ...

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Watson's Riddle featuring Chuck Leavell to be released on Palmetto Records on August 30th

Source: Palmetto Records
August 21, 2011

Palmetto Records will release the debut album for Watson's Riddle on August 30th 2011. Watson's Riddle consists of veteran jazz guitarist Steve Watson (Bruce Hornsby Band, Dolly Parton and TV Theme credits Magnum PI, A Team), Paul Riddle, Chuck Leavell and Tim Lawter. “Deep Grooves, Deep Soulful Melodies, and Deep South..." The music has been called “Smooth Jazz Americana" by Sandy Shore, smoothjazz.com. About Watson's Riddle Watson's Riddle is a dynamic new instrumental group formed in Upstate South Carolina by ...

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Guitarist John Basile Releases "Amplitudes" on Stringtime Jazz

Source: John Basile
August 20, 2011

Guitarist John Basile returns with a unique solo project featuring multiple guitars in an improvisational journey through a unique selection of material. “In a somewhat strange twist of fate, Amplitudes came about as a direct result of using an iPhone app simply as the sketchpad for the multiple guitar tracks recorded here that hopefully reflect a certain perspective of what jazz guitar is for me. Though initially intended as references for performances with perhaps another guitarist or instrumentalist, the ...

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Athenor - En Form for Bla (VHF Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 20, 2011

A collective of musicians from the avant rock/free improvisation scene, Aethenor creates some unusual and continually fascinating soundscapes. Consisting of Stephen O'Malley, Daniel O'Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, and Steve Noble, the group strives to create a sound that is somewhere in the twilight nether-regions where progressive rock, ambient textures and In a Silent Waytype jazz improvisation all combine and coalesce into a unique musical form. The music has a spacious beginning as the musicians grapple for purchase on the wide open ...

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Canned Heat, Featuring Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Live at Montreux 1973 (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 20, 2011

Canned Heat, the doomed boogie-blues revivalists, only made a lone appearance at the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival. Yet they still managed some star-crossed magic. By 1973, co-frontman Alan “Blind Owl" Wilson had already tragically passed, an overdose victim at just 27. Stepping in, however, with Bob “The Bear" Hite and the rest of his Delta-rocking brethren was Clarence “Gatemouth" Brown, giving this recording a vibrating once-in-a-lifetime specialness. Already huge festival draws, after signature appearances at Monterey Pop in 1967 and ...

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Two Virtuosos: Richard Smith and Francesco Buzzurro, Collaborate on New Release

Source: Josh Vittek
August 19, 2011

Los Angeles, CA—Chart topping jazz guitarist Richard Smith and internationally awarded, classical guitarist Francesco Buzzurro announced today the release of their upcoming recording, Un Mondo, Due Chitarre. The 10 song collection will be available online and in hard copy starting September 6. Since their initial meeting in 2005, the two have strived to create a presentation that combines their unique musical backgrounds into an anthology of tunes enjoyable and appreciated by the masses. Un Mondo, Due Chitarre takes its audience ...

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Trumpet Ace Melvin Jones Hits Straight to the Core on His "Pivot" Album

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
August 19, 2011

I am not going to mess with a lot of words today. That's because a lot of words are not needed to capture what Melvin Jones's Pivot (Turnaround 1004) is all about. Mr. Jones plays trumpet with a brash and bold extroversion that puts him in the Lee Morgan-Freddie Hubbard-Woody Shaw bracket. Hook him up with a very hot band (like the one here), let him get his own tunes in there, and let loose. This is music with that ...

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Charles Lloyd - Jumping the Creek (2005)

Source: Something Else!
August 19, 2011

By Mark Saleski Listeners come to jazz from many directions. They may have a natural attraction to it. Jazz may have been the predominant music playing on their parents' home stereo (though that kind of situation has been known to drive a person in the opposite direction). They may even have played an instrument at a young age and gone on to stay with the music they were immersed in while learning their charts. Then, there's the “gateway record." This ...

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