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Jon Dee Graham + Freedy Johnston + Susan Cowsill = the Hobart Brothers & Lil' Sis Hobart
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conqueroo
Itinerant singer-songwriters unite to record album, At Least We Have Each Other, due for late 2011 release, and will make live debut at SXSW AUSTIN, Texas —Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill have united to form the Hobart Brothers & Lil' Sis Hobart. The trio, backed by drummer Russ Broussard and bassist Andrew Duplantis, will make their live debut during SXSW week in a series of Austin appearances. Susan, Jon Dee and Freedy found themselves huddled at last ...
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Luis Conte's "En Casa De Luis" Features The Many Sides Of The Powerful Percussionist
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Heather Noonan
LOS ANGELES—Luis Conte, most famous as a masterful percussionist, has announced the release of his latest album, “En Casa de Luis," out March 8th through BFM Jazz. Conte can play virtually any style of music and has performed with a very wide range of major artists, including James Taylor, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Phil Collins and Pat Metheny, to name a few. Conte is also an important bandleader, and a very skilled songwriter and singer. His many musical talents are on ...
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Elan Trotman Seduces Radio with a Midnight Serenade of Love and Sax
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
The Love and Sax album is released as two tracks steam up smooth jazz and urban adult contemporary playlists Boston, MA—An alluring collection of romantic R&B ballads and sensual instrumental grooves, Love and Sax was released today, the second contemporary jazz effort from saxophonist Elan Trotman, who wrote or co-wrote eleven songs and produced or co-produced five tracks for the disc. Two singles the undeniably seductive title track that vacillates in tone and tempo, and the albums lone vocal number, ...
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The James Ward Band (The JWB) Tilts the Groove Axis with New Release
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
"If Chick Corea Elektric Band and Najee are filed under jazz, so should this CD. Its deep melodicism and sophisticated grooves mark it as an amalgamate between funk and jazz, and its accomplished players make this album rich and nuanced." —Kevin Rabas, Jam Magazine Kansas City, Missouri—The Groovward label is proud to announce the release of Groove Axis by The James Ward Band (The JWB). The James Ward Band (The JWB) was formed January of 1997 at The Blue Room ...
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The Kronos Quartet Performs "Uniko" with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
There are musical works that come along now and then that go beyond what categorical pigeonholing comfortably handles. Such music is all-the-more welcome in the sense that it expands the boundaries of possibility for music as we understand it in the present tense. Such is most assuredly the case with the new Kronos Quartet offering Uniko (Ondine 1185-2), featuring the music of Kimmo Pohjonin and Samuli Kosminen. First of all, this neither sounds like or is a typical string quartet-chamber ...
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Various Artists - Essential Chicago Blues (Not Now Music, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
European labels have long used their generous copyright laws to anthologize American music in a way their counterparts in the States find difficult. This compilation draws from a number of record labels including Chess and Vee-Jay, skimming some of the cream of the crop of American blues during the period 1951-1959. The electric blues boom during this period coincided with a social phenomenon known as the great migration, which brought many African-Americans north looking for better working conditions and more ...
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Forgotten Series: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Known now (unfortunately) for its jokey songs—that headband-couture video-hit “Money for Nothing," the silly baseball-park ditty “Walk of Life"—Dire Strait's Brothers in Arms wouldn't perhaps seem like a top candidate for inclusion in the Something Else's Forgotten Series. Except that elsewhere on the album, when they weren't “playing guitar on the MTV," Dire Straits shared what may be some of the band's most interestingly topical, and deeply emotive tracks. The title track, which lacks any of the ...
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Elvis Presley: Honorable Discharge
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in March 1958 and deployed to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32nd Armor, 3rd Armored Division in West Germany, his absence created a rock vacuum. With the King in uniform, other worthy recording artists were poised to command a larger share of the limelight. Rockers-in-waiting included the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Ritchie Valens and Eddie Cochran. But when Holly and Valens died in February 1959 and Cochran [pictured] died ...
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