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Introducing Trumpeter Mike Cottone

Source: Kari-On Productions
August 9, 2011

MIKE COTTONE, “JUST REMEMBER" RELEASING AT ALL FINE RETAILERS AND TO RADIO ON AUGUST 8, 2011 Just Remember is a highly personal collection of songs that Cottone wanted to be a reflection of his journey thus far and to pay tribute to a pivotal figure in his decision to become a musician. Produced by Grammy-award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens (known for his work with Kurt Elling & Christian McBride) and Marc Iacona, co-producer of the Rochester International Jazz Festival, the project ...

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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 8, 2011

Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie were inexorably linked in the bebop firmament of jazz, cutting a number of remarkable records together during a relatively short time span, releasing a musical revolution (or evolution) in the process. This album was recorded on June 6, 1950 with pianist Thelonious Monk, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Buddy Rich in attendance. What a gathering of talent, can you imagine? This CD reissue is the short version with the red filtered cover, ...

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Something Else! Sneak Peek: Lindsey Buckingham, "Seeds We Sow" (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 8, 2011

"Seeds We Sow," the title track to Lindsey Buckingham's sixth solo album, due on Sept. 6, is a darkly introspective triumph—as mysterious and challenging as anything in his often mysterious and challenging career. Sounding a little grayer, a little quieter, this isn't the gruffly sexual Buckingham of “Big Love," or the angry backtalker of “Go Your Own Way," or even the frisky rabble-rouser of “Trouble." Yet the challenges, and the beauty, of Buckingham's music are still there. Recording alone, and ...

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Dave Chamberlain displays guitar prowess on new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
August 8, 2011

Mainly known for his deft skills with the double bass, Dave Chamberlain lets his guitar prowess grab the spotlight on his trio's latest album, On the Back Foot. Together with saxophonist Dave O'Higgins, they produce a collection of stellar instrumentals that define class and elegance. But for Chamberlain, it's an opportunity to renew his love for the guitar, which he had once given up on. “I progressed much more rapidly on the double bass than the guitar," Chamberlain explained. “Along ...

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Marky Quayle releases her latest CD, "So Lucky . . . To Be Loved By You"

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
August 7, 2011

New York, NY, August 7, 2011—Marky Quayle releases her latest CD, So Lucky . . . To Be Loved By You. This San Francisco native is a compelling singer with a refreshingly velvet vocal sound who has absorbed what all great Jazz vocalists know in their souls: the importance of 'owning' a song and delivering its poignant story. Her tasteful and agile interpretive skills and natural sense of what it means to get inside of a lyric captivate her audience ...

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Ernie Krivda - Blues for Pekar (Capri, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 7, 2011

Harvey Pekar was most well known as a graphic novelist, but he was also a huge jazz fan and occasional critic. He receives a fine tribute on this album, a strong disc rooted in the bebop and hard-bop firmament of jazz, and played with a passion and joy that is infectious. Ernie Krivda plays tenor saxophone, joined by Claude Black on piano, Marion Haydenon bass, Renell Gonsalves on drums and Sean Jones or Dominick Farinacci sitting in on trumpet. Krivda ...

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Ben Tyree/BT3 - Re:vision (2010)

Source: Something Else!
August 7, 2011

A couple of years back while covering a record by the whack jazz-funk-rock big band Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber I picked out Living Colour's Vernon Reid's contributions to the collective, but he wasn't the only guitarist on there. Ben Tyree was also on that record. Like Reid, Tyree doesn't settle for the middle of the road stuff, he starts with massive technically ability, a driving rock clamor and a great sense of funk, deploying all this to more challenging, ...

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Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (2004)

Source: Something Else!
August 7, 2011

By Mark Saleski Immediately recognizable saxophone voices: Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane. To this list we must add Jan Garbarek. Every musician brings something unique to the aural world. A way of phrasing. Romanticism of melody. Cryptic storytelling with chords. Energy. Shocking bursts of seeming anti-logic. Tone. Tone. In the jazz/instrumental music realm, tone is it. The musician's voice. We as listeners identify with that sound and can use it, even in 'blind' situations, to make an identification. It's always amazed ...

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