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Diane Schuur to release The Gathering, available June 7th on Vanguard Records
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Muse Media
Jazz Legend Diane Schuur signs with Vanguard Records New release The Gathering available on June 7th; Features guest performances by Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Larry Carlton, Mark Knopfler and Kirk Whalum March 28, 2011—Santa Monica, CA. Two-time Grammy Award winner and one of contemporary jazz's leading vocalists, Diane Schuur, has signed with Vanguard Records. She will be releasing her label debut, The Gathering, on June 7th. With a distinguished career that spans nearly three decades, Schuur's new album is unique ...
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Four Formidable Fusioneers Join Forces in All-Star Outing
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Big Hassle
Keyboardist Scott Kinsey, bassist Matthew Garrison, Armenian percussionist-vocalist Arto Tuncboyacian and drummer Gary Novak form Human Element for self-titled April 19 debut on Abstract Logix In the tradition of Weather Report and the Joe Zawinul Syndicate, two powerhouse pan-global bands that have greatly influenced generations of musicians around the world, Human Element is staking out a new corner of the musical map on its self-titled debut. Comprised of keyboardist Scott Kinsey (Tribal Tech), electric bassist Matthew Garrison (Zawinul Syndicate, John ...
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Sirone's Last American Recording: Oluyemi Thomas, Sirone and Michael Wimberly's "Beneath Tones Floor"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Bassist Sirone's recent passing was a sad event. He has been a mainstay of avant bass playing in the free jazz field since he first came to notice in the '60s. Beneath Tones Floor (No Business CD 20) finds him in good form and in excellent company on what is believed to be his last recording in the USA. It's a fully three-way trio session with the loquacious Oluyemi Thomas on bass clarinet, soprano, musette, etc., and Michael Wimberly on ...
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Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes (RCA 1969, International Phonographic, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon's music has always been something of an enigma to me, but seeing how revered he was by his fellow musicians I tried my best to enjoy it. This album, amazingly released originally by a major label and out of print for many years has been given a beautiful re-issue and re-mastering, which brings the album considered to be Dixon's masterpiece to life. I found this music surprisingly accessible, but no less original in its ...
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Noah Haidu - Slipstream (2011)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron Posi-Tone Records, the label that has done more than anyone else lately in putting out records by the brightest new talent in mainstream and modern jazz, introduced the pianist and composer Noah Haidu to the world last week. Slipstream went on sale March 22, a debut that doesn't present mere potential, but an accomplished jazz ace making hard-bop in an accomplished manner. Haidu didn't get to this point by happenstance; like all jazz success stories, it's ...
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Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live (2009)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski You don't have to look very hard to find all sorts of writing about Tom Waits. Much of it wanders around in the area of Waits' past, his hard living, the drinking, smoking, the decayed hotel rooms. Some of that stuff is true, and some of it is about as useful as that old truss you found in the bottom of the steamer truck up in your grandfather's attic. Maybe the reviews devolve into such cliché because ...
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AB Baars - Time to Do My Lions (Stichting Wig, 2010) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Paul Acquaro I must admit I was afraid to listen to this album at first. I thought that I might not know how to hear, compare, or enjoy a solo saxophone recording. I like space and I like the edges of improvisation and music, but I was concerned that this would be to far off my own charts. However, I was intrigued as to what the phrase 'Time to do my lions' meant and my curiosity finally led me ...
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Guitarist Tyson Graf unites fiery progressive-rock guitar with rambunctious jazz improvisation on new album
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Lauren Rogers
Guitarist Tyson Graf isn't content with exploring the surface; instead, he'd rather the plumb the depths. To him, playing music takes on a transcendent quality. “As I get older music becomes more and more of a spiritual activity," Graf revealed. “Spiritual in the sense of becoming more enlightened through music and hopefully enlightening others." On his second album Rehearsals, Graf stitches together his command of progressive-rock guitar with his fascination for jazz improv. The union of the two makes for ...
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