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Chicago's Come Sunday Mixes Gospel & Jazz on Debut CD "Crosscurrents"
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Chicago septet Come Sunday melds jazz form and gospel tradition on their striking debut CD Crosscurrents, due for release May 3. Taking their name and inspiration from Duke Ellington's groundbreaking 1958 collaboration with gospel queen Mahalia Jackson, Come Sunday reinterprets time-honored spirituals and gospel classics—plus one Stevie Wonder tune and, of course, Ellington's “Come Sunday"—in musically innovative, emotionally uplifting ways. The arrangements, by the group's guitarist Mike Allemana, brim with melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic surprise. “They smartly balance gospel ...
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Matt Blostein, Vinnie Sperrazza and Their Second, "Paraphrase"
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Music changes over time. What was mainstream in jazz circa 1965 is more retro now, 46 years later. So Al Cohn and Zoot Sims are long gone, their music still great, but people coming up with that take on the jazz sound are really not mainstream anymore; they are revivalists. So what then IS mainstream? Perhaps some of the things Dave Holland has been doing form one part of it. There's a looseness that isn't quite “free" in the definition ...
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Yo Miles! - Lightning (There Records, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser are keeping the spirit of Miles Davis great electrical music circa 1969-1975 very much alive by playing music that was influenced by the original source material, but brought up to date by their original compositions and improvisations. Smith and Kaiser are added and abetted by a number of different musicians on this album which begins with the lengthy opening jam “Thunder and Lightning." Clocking in at over twenty minutes, the music develops ...
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Beastie Boys: New Album out 5.3
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JamBase
HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO MAY 3 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED The wait is over, again: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Beastie Boys' long anticipated eighth album, will be released May 3 by Capitol in the U.S. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. The new record will mark Mike “Mike D" Diamond, Adam “Ad Rock" Horovitz and Adam “MCA" Yauch's first full length effort since 2007's Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. After going ...
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Jazz Fusion Keyboardist Patrick Bradley Taps a Luminous Cast for the Spiritually-Inspired "Under the Sun "
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
The album offering hope and adventure will be released April 26th, a momentous day in the artists life Aliso Viejo, CA: Talk about mixed emotions. Thats what jazz fusion artist Patrick Bradley will experience April 26th, when he celebrates his birthday by releasing his second album, Under the Sun. April 26th also marks the anniversary of his fathers passing. Bradleys mother passed away eleven months to the day after his father. It was one heck of a year. But instead ...
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Not even Hurricane Katrina could stop saxophonist Vandell Andrew from pursuing his dreams with new EP
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Lauren Rogers
Saxophonist Vandell Andrew nearly saw his dreams swept aside by the lethal force of Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans native was on the verge of receiving instruction from jazz icon Edward “Kidd" Jordan before tragedy struck the region. Andrew ended up having to move to Dallas, Texas, where he honed his chops in the local jazz circuit. Andrew's gift for playing the sax, once derailed by Mother Nature, is in full bloom on his new eponymous debut EP. Despite being ...
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John Primer - Call Me John Primer (Wolf, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Guitarist and songwriter John Primer is a solid meat and potatoes bluesman who moved north from Mississippi to Chicago and gradually moved from apprentice musician in the clubs to a leader in his own right. This album is a selection of songs from his Wolf label recordings, a nice mix of live and studio songs that reflect his strong respect and admiration for the blues tradition. It's a nicely varied mix of material from a the stripped down version of ...
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Enrico Rava Quartet: S/T (ECM 1122)
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Between Sound and Space - An ECM Records Resource
Enrico Rava Quartet Enrico Rava trumpet Roswell Rudd trombone Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark bass Aldo Romano drums Recorded March 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg Engineer: Martin Wieland Produced by Manfred Eicher Enrico Rava, one of the trumpet's unsung heroes, unearthed a gem in this self-titled quartet offering from 1978. Although one can always expect an expertly realized variety in any Rava project, what makes this date so special is the ...
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