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Nicole Mitchell - Awakening (2011)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

Everybody digs Nicole Mitchell. They love her in sweet hometown Chicago and all the critics in New York love her, too. Heck, even we discerning types at SER have taken a shining to her. She's the consensus top flautist in the jazz world, she's got a new record out, Awakening, and there's no way I'm going to ignore it. On her last record Renegades (2009), Mitchell was backed up by the delightfully idiosyncratic Black Earth Strings, which put the violin ...

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One Track Mind: Larry Goldings, "In My Room" (2011)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

Larry Goldings, the jazz organist and long-time James Taylor sideman, opens his second acoustic piano solo release with this update of “In My Room," a Beach Boys' 1963 pop masterpiece that's always had this shattering beauty. Originally beginning as a waltz-tempo ballad, “In My Room" becomes a vehicle for some sensitive new solos by Goldings, even as the cut retains its initial emotional heft. A song about perfect isolation, inside the safe cocoon of a teen's bedroom, “In My Room" ...

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Jazz Vocalist Kathy Sanborn Honors Turner Classic Movies Host Robert Osborne with Song Dedication

Source: Kathy Sanborn
July 18, 2011

Film stars Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe have it. So do luminaries like Clark Gable and Lana Turner. What they share is the power of magnetic attraction, pulling screen fans to them like a magnet. A fan of classic films, jazz vocalist and composer Kathy Sanborn says her latest release, Magnetized, describes the power of attraction exhibited by film stars whose screen presence can virtually electrify an audience. Sanborn explains, “Magnetized is about being pulled by an inexplicable magnetic force ...

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Zigaboo Modeliste - New Life (2011)

Source: Something Else!
July 18, 2011

New Life arrived amidst much anticipation of something in keeping with drummer Zigaboo Modeliste's mythically groovetastic tenure with the Meters. And, bless him, I got it. But that wasn't all. Take the title track. “New Life" doesn't mimic the expected grease-fire funk of his old band, so much as forceably combine New Orleans syncopations with a popping R&B swagger. “Human Race" sounds like Prince-meets-early-1970s-Marvin Gaye, with a nasty guitar signature, a propulsive polyrhythm and a socially conscious lyric. “Was Not ...

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Special AAJ Preview of Karen Carroll's New Single "Do You Ever Think About Me"

Source: Ron Templin
July 16, 2011

Karen Carroll's new single, “Do You Ever Think About Me," a track on her new CD, Karen Carroll's Blues Collection will be featured as the All About Jazz Download of the Day on Friday July 22, 2011. Readers can preview the track by clicking here About Karen Carroll Karen Carroll, singer, songwriter, musician, Chicago native, started singing in church at 6. She was taught singing theory by master Robert Allen and Nate Griffin was her vocal coach. Karen worked with ...

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Mike Zito’s “Greyhound” Leaves The Station On July 19, 2011

Source: Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
July 15, 2011

Sherman Oaks, CA—Eclecto Groove Records proudly announces the release of award-winning Texas-based songwriter/guitarist/singer Mike Zito's “Greyhound," on July 19, 2011, his 3rd release for the label. “Greyhound" was produced by Grammy-winning guitarist/singer/songwriter Anders Osborne and recorded at Dockside Studios in Lafayette, LA. Featuring Zito on vocals/guitars, Carl Dufrene—bass/vocals, Brady Blade—drums/vocals and Osborne—back-up vocals/guitar, “Greyhound" continues the songwriting process established by Zito on his two previous critically acclaimed recordings for Eclecto Groove Records. (The title cut of his previous release, “Pearl ...

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Bob Nell, Pianist, Puts One Through with "Soft and Bronze"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
July 15, 2011

Those who read my blogs know that I cover many of the very new releases but also think it worthwhile to cover things that might be a few years young, when there is something good about them to contemplate and dig. And so it is that, in the course of interviewing bassist Michael Bisio for All About Jazz he mentioned his long association and friendship with Montana/Pacific Coast pianist Bob Nell. One thing led to another and I grabbed one ...

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Orrin Evans - Freedom (Posi-Tone, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
July 15, 2011

Pianist and composer Orrin Evans has been on quite a roll lately, leading his own groups and then co-leading progressive groups like The Captain Black Big Band and Tarbaby, both of which were featured at recent jazz festivals and received acclaim by both fans and press alike. Riding this increasing crest of fame, he releases a very accessible album featuring his trio of Dwayne Burno on bass and Byron Landham and Anwar Marshall splitting drumming duties. Larry McKenna sits in ...

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