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Many Arms - Missing Time
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By S. Victor Aaron One of Frank Zappa's latter day live documents is called Make A Jazz Noise Here. Anyone who's followed Zappa knows that while Zappa rarely really played jazz as we tend to think of jazz, a lot of his music adopted the exacting, open-ended construction of jazz, especially avant-garde jazz. When you peel away the heavy rock (and sometimes, humor) shell he wrapped his music with, you can find the jazz. More recently, some bands have made ...
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The Waitiki 7, in Hi-Fi Vinyl (Pass Out Records) - 02/08/2011
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From egg-shaped plush chairs or towering cabinets carved like totem poles, hi-fi sound once poured over the conversation pits and cocktail hours of yesteryear. The warm tone and stop-and-listen vibe continue with exotica innovators WAITIKI 7's latest venture, WAITIKI in Hi-Fi (Pass Out Records; April 12, 2011). The vinyl-only release of new material finally gives listeners—die-hard exotica connoisseurs, record collectors, or the merely tiki-curious—a chance to sit back and savor the group's fresh look at a midcentury music in clear, ...
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Sammy Nestico: Fun Time and More
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Nobody swings like Sammy Nestico. The 87-year-old arranger knows how to get the heel of your foot bouncing and hands clapping without you even realizing they're moving. It just sort of happens, especially if you dig big bands. Sammy is old school, so his swingers build and build and build. The whole point, Sammy says, is to drive the listener wild, and Sammy always succeeds. Between 1968 and 1983, he was the pen on 10 Count Basie albums, four of ...
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All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month: R.I.S.S.'s "High And Dry" from Color & Style
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All About Jazz has selected R.I.S.S.'s “High And Dry" from Color & Style as our featured SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month. You can download and listen to the track for free here. Enjoy! Your friends at All About Jazz and SonicBids About the All About Jazz/SonicBids Download Program 6.4 million downloads and going strong! All About Jazz has offered a free full-length MP3 daily since 2005. We also select and feature at least one track per month through our ...
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Concord Music Group Spotlights Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Albert King in Latest Round of "Definitive" Volumes
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Two-disc sets capture some of the finest jazz and blues of the past six decades. All three collections to be released on April 5, 2011. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Concord Music Group has assembled three new titles in its ongoing Definitive series, one of which marks the series' initial foray into CMG's vast blues catalog. The Definitive Miles Davis on Prestige; The Definitive Bill Evans on Riverside and Fantasy; and The Definitive Albert King on Stax span a total of 60 years ...
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Delfeayo Marsalis - Sweet Thunder (2011)
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By Nick DeRiso For all of the many wonders of Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, the 1957 ode to the writings of William Shakespeare left plenty of room to tinker. Many of the compositions, which explored literary familiars from Othello to Hamlet, were but brief bursts of sound. That opens the door for an interesting reimaging of the work by New Orleans-born Delfeayo Marsalis. And Sweet Thunder is just that, a reimaging—not a retelling. Marsalis has orchestrated the pieces for ...
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Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improviser (2011)
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By Mark Saleski The music of jazz composer/pianist Matthew Shipp isn't fairly described as “avant-garde," mostly because to a great many people, that categorization can be read as “I don't understand this music, can we please leave now?" This wouldn't be fair to Shipp because over the course of his career, he has spent a lot of time trying to include other musics into what we know as jazz. From his work with the likes of Spring Heel Jack, The ...
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Nat Cole: That Sunday, That Summer
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Everyone has a favorite Nat King Cole song. Mine is That Sunday, That Summer. In addition to the song's melody being artfully crafted, the lyrics retain an old fashioned formality that's long gone. It's an unusual love song, in that it casts the singer as a reminiscing romantic singing to his wife or love interest about a special moment on a special day. It's both hip and delightfully square. I also love Ralph Carmichael's arrangement, with the bass trombone hitting ...
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