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Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson - Ella and Oscar (1975, Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Though not the hoped-for third-act triumph, Ella and Oscar still has its enduring charms. See, Oscar Peterson, a hard-banging piano genius as bluesy as he was inventive, should have made the perfect foil for Ella Fitzgerald on this stripped-down date, set for reissue on March 15 by Concord. It seems that too much time, however, had passed amongst these old friends. Fitzgerald's sizzling scats, always more musicianly than interpretive of a lyric, had fallen a beat behind ...
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The Big Question: Will Pandora Bite the Hand That Feeds? (I.E. Apple) - Or Will It Remain Silent?
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HypeBot
Rhapsody is angry with Apple. Rdio, Last.fm, and Deezer are pissed off. MOG is upset too. Just about every executive has spoken out against the dreaded “Apple Tax" on in-app subscriptions. Slacker is silent. And so far, Pandora has been quiet too. Yet, they're also the most reliant of all the services on Apple. 90% of the reason why Pandora remains so ubiquitous is because being in the App Store drives millions of new users to their service. This puts ...
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Very Best of the Ronettes
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When I was a kid growing up in New York City in the '60s, there were only two groups that mattered: The Ronettes and the Four Seasons. The Beach Boys were from a place where teens drove cars and surfed. My friends rode bikes and played stickball. Parents were the ones who drove cars in New York and had to move them to different sides of the street each day to avoid tickets. The Beatles also were foreign—they came from ...
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TC III, B.J. Jansen and The Uptown Jazz Collective Release New Album on ARC - Artists Recording Collective
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JM Creative
T.C. the rd, B.J. Jansen and The Uptown Jazz Collective have released, She Do What She Do, on the internationally known ARC Artists Recording Collective Label. She Do What She, is dedicated to T.C.'s late mother Trudy Pitts and features one of her original compositions, “Psalm 150." Also featured is the title composition, “She Do What She Do," written by T.C. III., “LATIN," along with standards from the American Jazz Song Book. Jansen and Carney are joined by Marcus Persiani ...
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Keyboardist Bill Cornish Releases Two New Albums
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Michael Ricci
Keyboardist Bill Cornish has just released two new CDs—Inner Visions, his latest solo CD, and Objects in Motion, with his jazz-fusion group The Odd Get Even. Like his previous solo albums, Inner visions shifts seemlessly from his tradmark collection of influences including world fusion, jazz, new age, orchestral and funk. Musical guests this time out include Filippo Bertacche (The Funkdawgs) on drums, Chris Hale(Zindu) on bass, Eric Bolvin on trumpet, Claire Fitch (Dublin Symphony Orchestra) on cello and Bill Ray ...
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Diana Jones' Third Album, 'High Atmosphere' on Proper American Records, Combines Tradition with Topical.
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conqueroo
Nashville singer-songwriter brings the mountain ballad tradition into the present day Jim Lauderdale makes guest appearance; Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) co- produced. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—High Atmosphere, the latest album in the remarkable career arc of singer-songwriter/visual artist Diana Jones, hits with the force of a revelation, further deepening an unprecedented body of work that began in 2006 with My Remembrance of You and continued with 2009's Better Times Will Come. On her new release, due out on April 5, ...
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Saxophonist/Composer Fred Hess Releases New Big Band CD As A Leader: "Into The Open" (Alison Records 116), On February 21
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Fred Hess
The Fred Hess Big Band is back. After releasing more than a dozen discs as the leader of small groups, Hess jumped into the big-band groove for the first time with his 2009 CD Hold On. That disc played to positive reviews and provided the music on the trailer for the highly- regarded Broadway play “God Of Carnage." As an award-winning composer, the big-band context proved to be a natural for the talented, Denver-based tenor saxophonist who also holds a ...
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The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh (2011)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski In the recent Southern Music issue of the Oxford American, musician John Engle speaks of “The Vastness," the idea that the world's store of knowledge is so vast that “if you tried to take it all on at once it would crush you." It's true. And there are many points of entry. These days, the most obvious culprit is the Internet but I'm going for something a little more focused—the history of music. Even tighter: the history ...
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