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Trombone Shorty: New Album in Sept

Source: JamBase
July 14, 2011

NEW ALBUM FOR TRUE FEATURES JEFF BECK, KID ROCK, LENNY KRAVITZ, LEDISI, WARREN HAYNES, IVAN & CYRIL NEVILLE, AND MORE Trombone Shorty follows his Grammy nominated Backatown CD with For True to be released Sept 13 on Verve Forecast. For True features Troy Andrews' band, Orleans Avenue, as well as a string of legendary performers with whom he recently shared the stage, including Jeff Beck, Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Ledisi, Warren Haynes, Ivan and Cyril Neville, Rebirth Brass Band and ...

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Pepper Adams in Hollywood

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 14, 2011

Fifty-four years ago this month, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams was in a Hollywood studio for Mode Records. The date featured Adams, Stu Williamson on trumpet and valve trombone, Carl Perkins on piano, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Mel Lewis on drums. West Coast baritone saxophonist Bob Gordon had died two years earlier in a car crash and Gerry Mulligan was in New York co-leading a quartet with Bob Brookmeyer. While guys like Chuck Gentry, Marty Berman, Ronnie Lang and Jimmy ...

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Trumpeter/Composer John Daversa Releases New Big Band Recording "Junk Wagon" on BFM Jazz.

Source: Two for the Show Media
July 14, 2011

It's kind of a cheap play on words, but let's go for it anyway: What makes the music on John Daversa's Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album so exciting and so innovative is its Daversa-ty. As Bob Mintzer, the renowned saxophonist and longtime Yellowjackets member, puts it in his liner notes, “This CD is not Basie, not Ellington, not Kenton, not Gil Evans." It's John Daversa, big band music for 2011, not 1941. The arrangements, the attitude, the thought processes ...

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'Utterly Captivating' Roots Rock on Debut CD/DVD by JD Malone & the Experts

Source: Randex Communications
July 13, 2011

Avalon, the debut release by JD Malone & the Experts (ItsAboutMusic.com), is a CD/DVD package that delivers extraordinary roots rock which brings to mind the snarl and grit of a young Steve Earle, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp through a sterling band and its honey-voiced leader. Tapped by Goldmine as a 'Download of the Week' and declared “utterly captivating" in a five-star review by Sea of Tranquility, Avalon also features a 37-minute DVD documentary of the band in studio rehearsals ...

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The Wait is Over: "Roots of Chicha" on Vinyl July 19

Source: Press Junkie PR
July 13, 2011

Things have changed in the global Chicha world since Barbès released its first compilation in 2006. Chicha has not only joined the ever-growing cumbia family as one of its established cousins but, all over Latin America, it has attained cult status and reached out to audiences until then more accustomed to listening to Rock En Español—or Rock En Ingles for that matter—than any form of Tropical music. Chicha has now crossed social and geographical boundaries and can be heard at ...

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Acclaimed Drummer Aaron Comess Earns Raves for Instrumental CD "Beautiful Mistake"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 13, 2011

TIME OUT NY: “A Cool New Disc of Jammy, Atmospheric Instrumentals" Soon to Be Featured in Relix, Modern Drummer Magazine “This album works so well that you hardly notice the absence of vocals, which would only take away from the overall appeal to the music being performed" Acclaimed Drummer Aaron Comess Earns Consistent Raves for Instrumental Rock Album, 'Beautiful Mistake' Consistently favorable coverage continues to run for drummer/guitarist/composer/producer Aaron Comess' powerful new CD, 'Beautiful Mistake.' TIME OUT NY described it ...

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Walt Weiskopf's Quartet Captured Live and Fired Up

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
July 13, 2011

Walt Weiskopf occupies a place among the very best but perhaps lesser-known post-Trane tenors. That does not mean that he (or the others) sound like Trane in a direct way. They just have an essential quality to their playing that has some of the Trane hardness, speed of inventive thought and intensity. There's his first live album, called rather appropriately Live (Capri 74109-2), that's been out a few months. It was recorded at the University of South Carolina in 2008, ...

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David Weiss - Snuck out (Sunnyside, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
July 13, 2011

Trumpeter David Weiss and his band Point of Departure (named after a famous Andrew Hill album) look to the inside/outside music of the mid to late 1960's as an inspiration and bring that aesthetic into the present with the second in a series of live albums. Recorded at the Jazz Standard in New York City, Weiss' group features JD Allen on tenor saxophone, Nir Felder on guitar, Matt Clohesy on bass and Jamire Williams on drums. This album features five ...

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