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Johnny Richards: Kiss Her Goodbye

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 10, 2011

In the summer of 1958, Johnny Richards took his orchestra into a Warner Bros. studio in New York to record the soundtrack for a low-budget film that was being shot in Cuba. The movie was Kiss Her Goodbye, starring Elaine Stritch as a young woman who loses her sanity. Richards asked David Allyn to sing the title theme. More with David in a minute. But when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in January 1959, he confiscated the film, which ...

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Keyboardist Jeff Logan Hosts a Mellifluous "Black Tie Affair" Accessible to All

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
August 10, 2011

Upper Marlboro, MD: After releasing six albums on his own independent label, BASS-mint Records, keyboardist Jeff Logan decided that he would raise the stakes on his lucky number seven album. By day, the prolific songwriter, who produces and performs all the instruments on his records including piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, percussion, drums and drum programming, serves as an administrator in the Prince Georges County detention center in Maryland. But his passion has always been music and he humbly devoted the ...

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Mace Hibbard - Time Gone by (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 9, 2011

They say everything is bigger in Texas. Waco-born Mace Hibbard cuts an imposing figure, like someone who spent his Friday nights (and perhaps even Saturday afternoons) on the gridiron as a teenager. But to this son of notable Texas trumpet player Dave Hibbard, “big" means the full, dulcet sounds coming out of his saxophone. The younger Hibbard didn't stay in the Lone Star State, and struck out to Atlanta and quickly making himself part of the music scene there, both ...

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Vincent Poag - Circling Back (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 9, 2011

He sings something like Bob Dylan, plays guitar something like Mark Knopfler, but doesn't fall into easy mimicry of either. Credit a long journey to get here, as Vincent Poag took some time away from his dream of becoming a singer-songwriter for the straight life and starting a family. Now older, wiser and possessing a complexity often lacking in such things, Poag has completed a long-awaited recording in Circling Back (Danal) that seeks to frame up his own life lessons. ...

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"Everyday Magic," New CD from Nashville Saxophonist/Composer Rahsaan Barber, Due for Release Aug. 30

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 9, 2011

The dynamic saxophonist and flutist Rahsaan Barber has emerged as a musical force in his hometown of Nashville, and now he's reaching for a wider audience with his terrific new CD, Everyday Magic. The CD, his second as a leader, is set for August 30 release on Jazz Music City Records. Everyday Magic—which Barber produced, and for which he wrote and arranged the repertoire—debuts his powerhouse band, also called Everyday Magic. Besides Barber on tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones and ...

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Pharoah Sanders - Village of the Pharaohs/Wisdom Through Music (Originally Released on Impulse, 1971-72, Re-Issued Verve, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 9, 2011

Although saxophonist Pharoah Sanders made his reputation as a firebrand of “The New Thing" there was always a deeply spiritual and meditative side to his playing and that aspect of his music comes to the forefront on this recently re-issued “2-fer." “Village of the Pharaohs" is a three part suite, which is particularly interesting because Sanders is playing soprano saxophone rather than his usual tenor. The music is full of rumbling percussion and the introduction of the shakuhachi adds an ...

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Keb Mo - The Reflection (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 9, 2011

Keb Mo isn't that kid playing the old blues on the old steel guitar anymore. Instead he often comes off on his new album The Reflection like a pillowy-smooth 1970s-era singer-songwriter—though guys like that, of course, never sounded this honey-smoked and warm. Leaving aside Keb Mo's earliest work, this shouldn't come a deep surprise. He has been following a lengthening career trail away from blues traditionalism all the way over into this soft-hearted, rootsy amalgam for some time. Keb Mo's ...

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Anita O'Day Swings Rodgers and Hart

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 9, 2011

My favorite Anita O'Day album for Verve is Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart. Interestingly, O'Day hated it. Then again, she also disdained Billy May for a variety of reasons. And the feeling was mutual. Recorded in June 1960, the album intermingles ferocious band arrangements and tender string charts on some of the American Songbook's most novel tunes. In nearly every case, O'Day's interpretation is bursting with peppery swing and cool seduction. O'Day's scrunched-face reaction to the ...

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