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Galactic: Live Album in May
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JamBase
RECORDED LIVE AT TIPITINA'S; FEATURES CYRIL NEVILLE, TROMBONE SHORTY, SOUL REBELS, BIG FREEDIA, AND MORE New Orleans outfit Galactic has a well earned reputation as one of the most exhilarating live acts around. Last year the band released the critically acclaimed genre defying sonic tribute to the Big Easy entitled Ya-Ka-May. Now the celebrated outfit offers up a rollicking live counterpart to Ya-Ka-May with The Other Side Of Midnight: Live In New Orleans out 5/3 via Anti- Records. The album ...
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Los Angeles jazz artist Cole Jacobs releases one of the year's most colorfully inventive efforts
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Lauren Rogers
Calling an EP Atomic Escalator brews expectations of hipster lounge jazz, and Los Angeles-based musician Cole Jacobs doesn't disappoint in arriving with the goods. Jacobs locates the twilight zone between smooth and acid jazz on Atomic Escalator, unveiling characteristics of both stylistic offshoots in a breezy, snappy manner. It is easily among the year's most colorfully inventive and irresistibly engaging releases, brimming with slick, chilled-out grooves. However, even Jacobs himself has difficulty in explaining exactly how he should be categorized ...
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Debut Solo Album Released of Celebrated Jazz Trumpeter Melvin Jones
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Njeri Nginyo
ATLANTA—Turnaround Records, together with highly acclaimed jazz trumpeter Melvin Jones, proudly announces the release of Jones' first solo album entitled 'Pivot.' A culmination of many years of performing with numerous greats in the jazz industry, 'Pivot' showcases Jones' simmering style and his technical facility through original compositions that will captivate both newer listeners and long-standing fans. Jones, described succinctly as “the real deal" by the famed jazz composer and trumpeter Marcus Printup, already has a distinguished and diverse recording catalog, ...
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Rachel Brown's Extended Single "Bumblebee" Delivers Captivating Pop Groove
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Creativity in Music
23-year-old Rachel Brown is a singer, songwriter and musician born and raised in New York City. Brown's music fuses pop, Caribbean, Hawaiian, country and world sounds into a captivating groove. In solo recordings, with her guitar or ukulele, Rachel's unique voice combines sweetness, sultriness and vulnerability, enchanting the listener. When coupled with her band of talented African musicians, Brown's Bermudian and Ethiopian heritage shines. As a fairly new artist with no formal musical training, Brown found her voice the old ...
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Ralph Peterson - Outer Reaches (Onxy, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
New York City may be the epicenter, but Newark, New Jersey was the home town to a number of jazz greats. Wayne Shorter is the most well known, but trumpeter Woody Shaw and organist Larry Young whom are the polestars on this recording were also Newark natives. Drummer Peterson is the leader along with a strong hard-bop band including Pat Bianchi on organ as well Josh Evans on trumpet and Jovan Alexandre on saxophone. They open with a wonderfully swinging ...
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Forgotten Series: Frank Zappa - Trance-Fusion (2006)
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Listening to excerpted guitar solos is like viewing abstract art: It's a glimpse of something that doesn't necessarily have to make sense in the general definition of the term. Were we talking about most guitarists, an album of extracted solos would likely be a pretty dreadful proposition, but when it comes to Frank Zappa on Trance-Fusion, it truly is art—and it's truly abstract. Few guitarists possess the skill or prowess to make their solos for the same ...
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Dave Holland - :rarum X (2004)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski During the first year or so of my post-college life, I developed a habit of visiting my local record shop every Saturday afternoon (it goes without saying that I already had this habit, maybe not so firmly attached to a particular day). It was an unassuming little store hiding in a nondescript strip mall. Nothin' special, really ... but it was my store. Now, this was before I got the full-on jazz bug. My prize jazz record ...
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