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Soren Dahl Jeppesen's "Red Sky" (Dog Day Music) CD Release set for July 1

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

"A somewhat underexposed talent on the Danish jazz scene is Soren Dahl Jeppesen. With Route One, Dahl Jeppesen has succeeded in making a blissful oasis of sound." —All About Jazz All About Jazz was among the first to compliment the 30-year old guitarist Soren Dahl Jeppesen's debut album Route One, when it was released in 2010. Since then, several Danish media followed suit. On July 1st 2011 the new album Red Sky is released. Once again the Icelandic saxophonist Oskar ...

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The PVR-Jazz Quartet pays homage to legendary saxophonists on debut album

Source: Lauren Rogers
July 1, 2011

If the PVR-Jazz Quartet's Jake Epstein could have his own Field of Dreams, he'd probably fill it with the saxophone legends of his youth, icons like Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, and Johnny Hodges. They are among the ghosts who haunt the PVR-Jazz Quartet's debut album, Reunion. Epstein, who plays alto saxophone with the PVR-Jazz Quartet, wanted to pay homage to his earliest and most beloved influences. However, the result is less of an adoring tribute than an impressive ...

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Pianist Maureen Girard's new CD exudes tranquility and evergreen beauty of Pacific Northwest

Source: Lauren Rogers
July 1, 2011

There is a rain-soaked ambience that haunts the piano jazz of Portrait in Four Colors, the debut album from Maureen Girard. Girard recorded the album in South Whidbey Island in the Pacific Northwest, and it exudes the tranquility and evergreen beauty of that region. This is one of the few records that you could see as well as hear. Girard didn't use the word portrait in the title for its poetic touch; her music unreels like photographs in the mind. ...

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Jazz Guitarist Roger Chong Releases Latest Album

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

Classic jazz guitar-playing with a youthful edge—that's what jazz guitarist Roger Chong does. A graduate of music from York University in Toronto, Canada, Roger has a solid musical know-how courtesy of his mentors—jazz musicians and educators Roy Patterson, Matt Brubeck, Casey Soko, and Mike Cado. While there, he honed his guitar skills as part of the university jazz orchestra led by its founder, renowned jazz bassist Al Henderson of Time Wrap. With Roger's debut album In the Beginning, he puts ...

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Flow Trio, "Set Theory" Live at the Stone, Sounding Better Than Ever

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
July 1, 2011

The Flow Trio do that. Flow. They flow in a free manner. They flow because each player sets up the other players with what he does, allowing them to invent fertile extended collective improvisations. You can hear that at great length on their Set Theory: Live at the Stone (Ayler CD-107). Drummer Charles Downs flows in the density and speed of his free-timing, both creating momentum and responding to it. Joe Morris as bassist is ideal for this sort of ...

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John Escreet - The Age We Live in (Mythology Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
July 1, 2011

With each new release, keyboardist and composer John Escreet has become more adventurous in his outlook toward music. This is his most diverse album yet, hinting at modern fusion while remaining true to his post-bop roots. Performing with him is a stellar lineup including David Binney on alto saxophone and electronics, Wayne Krantz on guitar, Marcus Gilmore on drums, plus a few special guests. After a brief introductory statement, electronics and electric piano begin “The Domino Effect" which builds with ...

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Hans Zimmer - Inception (2010)

Source: Something Else!
July 1, 2011

By Tom Johnson I found myself entranced by the horn-laden theme that repeatedly roared through the ads for Inception. Less song-like and more a series of massive, rumbling horn crashes, the music seemed as important as it was mysterious. Hans Zimmer's score was no mere backing music. Like the biggest scores we've come to know, it was a thematic monster, a character all to itself inside writer/director Christopher Nolan's dream-within-a-dream world. In a way, part of me just wanted to ...

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ZZ Top - Mescalero (2003)

Source: Something Else!
July 1, 2011

By Mark Saleski If you ever get a chance to see the movie “Dazed And Confused," you'll be treated to a pretty accurate depiction of a typical weekend in late 1970's America. The bad hair, the hiphuggers, the muscle cars, the 8-tracks. Ohhh yeah, the 8-tracks. I don't really have much nostalgia for 'em. I mean, they were cheap and didn't sound so hot. But that's what we had ... they were the classic rock box. Jump into the front ...

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