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Shhh...Jazz Musician Kenny Love's CD Is CAsE SEnSiTiVe

Source: Kl Ma
July 18, 2011

Kenny Love, who after having an independent music career, spent a subsequent twenty-year period as a radio/video promoter and media publicist representing fellow musicians, has now returned to his creative Jazz artistry and released cAsE sEnSiTiVe. cAsE sEnSiTiVe is a 10- song experience that engages the listener through musical peaks, lyrical valleys, and poetic arrangements. Opening with a driving upbeat selection titled Glide, the release has been entered into the International Music Awards. It will also be entered in seven ...

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Steve Coleman - The Mancy of Sound (Pi Recordings, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
July 18, 2011

Mancy is defined as “Divination by a specified means: ex. “geomancy." This suits saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman perfectly, as he has long been interested in numbers, symbols and their relationship to music. This wide ranging album features Jen Shyu on vocals, Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet, Tim Albright on trombone, Marcus Gilmore and Tyshawn Sorey on drums and Ramon Garcia Perez on percussion.With a lineup like that, you can imagine how deeply rhythmic the music is, and there is a ...

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Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

By Tom Johnson

There are moments when bands turn a corner, where everything becomes a bit more tightened up, stronger, more prominent. Transatlanticism was that album for Death Cab For Cutie.

The corner this album turned for them took them from simply being an indie band to being something to contend with and watch. There were glimmers of this on their previous album, The Photo Booth, where bits of really thoughtful, meaningful guitar riffs would emerge from their signature chiming ...

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One Track Mind: Rebirth Brass Band, "Shrimp and Gumbo" (2011)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

Rebirth Brass Band comes out hotter than a pistol on “Shrimp and Gumbo," another in the long line of lip-smacking New Orleans songs about food, yet there remains an underlying theme of musicianship. As with its original version, written by legendary Fats Domino producer Dave Bartholomew, the song bears little resemblance to any Bourbon Street cliche—instead shivering, clattering and shaking with a Creole-inspired island flare. Trumpeter Glen Andrews and Co. expertly revive that cool-rocking mambo beat, updating the track with ...

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Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik, 2011) ****a1/2

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
July 18, 2011

By Paul Acquaro Picked by John Zorn for his new Spotlight series on Tzadic records, you know something interesting must be is going on with Aram Bajakian's Kef trio. Listening to the Brooklyn based guitarists debut recording, all suspicions are confirmed. The songs on this album seductively, destructively and quite entertainingly blend passion, reverence and sometimes a little self-immolation. Or in the words of Zorn himself, “The music here rocks hard with exciting rhythms, searing guitar work and beautiful world ...

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Pianist Richard Eisenberg soothes a soul's melancholic ache on new album 'Song of Healing'

Source: Lauren Rogers
July 18, 2011

Death is silent. It is the quiet afternoon that used to be filled with talk and laughter; the empty stillness in a once boisterous living room. Pianist Richard Eisenberg's latest album, Song of Healing, echoes the hushed days following a loved one's passing. Dedicated to his late father, Dr. Samuel Eisenberg, M.D., Song of Healing carries the emotional weight of a profound loss in its every whispered confession. On “A Reader's Melody," Eisenberg captures a soul's melancholic ache as it ...

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Lost Recordings By Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland Now Available

Source: Shelly Liebowitz
July 18, 2011

Lost Recordings By Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland Now Available For some time SRI Jazz president, Shelly Liebowitz has been in discussions with the Estate of Frank Assunto the owners of most of the recorded material by The Dukes of Dixieland. Through an agreement these legendary recordings by the greatest Dixieland jazz group of all times will finally be digitally re-mastered and available on the SRI Jazz website http://www.srirecords.com and on iTunes, Amazon and all other major digital ...

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Tord Gustavsen - The Ground (2005)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

By Mark Saleski Fans of pianist Bill Evans will probably bristle at the comparison here, but that was the first connection that popped into my head with The Ground. Well, go ahead and bristle away because label-mate Keith Jarrett and “new ager" Liz Story also came to mind. The term new age was wrapped in quotes because, even though everybody seems to know what it means, it has become both meaningful and empty—applied to multiple (and very different) musics. George ...

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