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Dueling saxophones help make Rick Britto's new album among year's most unique releases

Source: Lauren Rogers
August 13, 2011

It is, without a doubt, one of the most original jazz releases of the year. Conversations with Erik & I is a unique experiment, two saxophonists engrossed in discussion, one that is told through the sounds of the instruments. The gentlemen in question are Rick Britto on tenor sax with Erik Van Dam on tenor/alto sax. Together they argue through the outré sonic landscapes created by their playing or sometimes even chill with a laid-back groove. The results are provocative ...

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"Two of a Kind" CD by Duo Laroo/Byrd

Source: Saskia Laroo
August 13, 2011

Saskia Laroo—trumpet, upright bass; Warren Byrd—piano, vocals, bongo Brand new project and another change of pace from our Dutch jazz diva from the Netherlands, teaming as two with her amazing melifluous trumpet vis a vis Monk-master Warren Byrd pianist/composer/vocalist for a Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk tribute. The duo's tours through Brazil, Hong Kong, Thailand, Netherlands, Russia, and USA come to fruition in their first Duo album. The CD mood swings with Duo Laroo/Byrd covers of vintage Miles and Monk ...

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Debut Alexander Stewart Album "All Or Nothing At All" set for September 5 Release

Source: Webb
August 13, 2011

There's a space between Georgie Fame and Plan B, between Mark Murphy and James Hunter. Where musicianship meets soul, and stories of love and loss are told over a powerful acoustic groove. It's a space where you can now hear Alexander Stewart. At just 23 years of age, Manchester-born singer Alexander Stewart releases his debut CD All Or Nothing At All, and the act that has captivated Ronnie Scott's, the Pizza Express, Boisdale's, the Hideaway, the Forge—in fact all of ...

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Captain Planet Announces Debut Album + Release Parties in LA, NY, DC & SF

Source: Press Junkie PR
August 12, 2011

After the release of three highly successful 12" EPs (2005's Gumbo Funk, 2009's Speakin' Nuyorican, and 2011's Ningane EP), Brooklyn's Bastard Jazz Recordings is proud to present the full length artist album by Captain Planet, entitled Cookin' Gumbo. This full length expounds on the vibe of his previous releases and explores the Captain's penchant for taking sounds from all corners of the globe and applying his hip-hop production sensibilities to make dancefloor and otherwise electronic music; Tossed into the Captain's ...

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Sonny Rollins - On Impulse/There Will Never Be Another You (Impulse!, 1965; Verve Re-Issue, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 12, 2011

The great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins only recorded a few albums for the Impulse! label in the mid 1960's, and presented on this compilation is the On Impulse LP, plus a live album from the same year that was previously unreleased (in the U.S. at least.) The On Impulse album is almost a Sonny Rollins sampler platter, with the many of the aspects of his musical personality on fine display. It's a quartet album, with Rolllins being supported by Ray ...

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K.D. Lang - Recollection (2009)

Source: Something Else!
August 12, 2011

By Mark Saleski I can't exactly remember either the song or the awards show I saw her perform it on. It had to be either Roy Orbison's “Crying" or maybe “Constant Craving." I also want to say that it was on the Grammy awards. Now that I think about it, I remember running out to buy Absolute Torch and Twang the next day so that drops “Constant Craving" from the running. Anyway, at that point I had read an article ...

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Forgotten Series: Living Colour - Collideoscope (2003)

Source: Something Else!
August 12, 2011

By Tom Johnson Listening to Collideoscope, at that point the first album of new material from Living Colour in 10 years, it was a little surprising how much time had lapsed between this offering and Stain. Living Colour broke up in one of those moves that left fans hanging—more “huh?" comments were heard than “it's about time." So it didn't come as much of a surprise in 2000 when I heard that the band was back together to do some ...

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Michael White - Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 1 (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 12, 2011

As much as famous folks like Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. have burnished the city of New Orleans' role in jazz, they didn't do it by playing in the style that made the city famous. Enter Michael White, beginning with a career-making sideman turn on Wynton's 1989 recording Majesty of the Blues. Seemingly untouched by the successive waves of R&B, soul, funk and hip hop, White's solo moments on that record harkened back to an earlier time—a much, much ...

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