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Gary Burton's Vibe
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
I met with the legendary vibraphonist Gary Burton last night to put together a video piece on his upcoming Mack Ave recording Common Ground. From what I heard this looks to be a truly great album and showcases Gary's newly formed quartet featuring Julian Lage (guitar), Scott Colley (bass) and Antonio Sanchez (drums). While we were hanging out we flashed back to his 1973 ECM label debut album The New Quartet, which is a personal favorite of mine, and which ...
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Rediscovery: Stony Island
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
This little-known and even less seen film is about a bunch of poor kids from Chicago's roughest neighborhoods trying to make it as musicians. Sure, this 1978 film suggests any number of more successful films that followed, notably both the Alan Parker films Fame (1980) and The Commitments (1991). But for some reason the world wasn't ready for this sort of thing in the glitzy days of Grease and Saturday Night Fever—or even Rocky—all similarly like-minded hard-luck stories of the ...
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Brad Shepik Quartet - Across the Way (Songlines, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Guitarist Brad Shepik takes an intimate, chamberish approach on his new album, in collaboration with Tom Beckham on vibraphone, Jorge Roeder on bass and Mark Guiliana on drums. The sound of the vibraphone and subtly amplified guitar is compelling and mysterious (remember the great tracks Grant Green recorded with Bobby Hutcherson?) and blends well with the bass and drums on this album, making for a tasteful and mysterious sound. The title track “Across the Way" opens with a beguiling medium ...
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One Track Mind: Buffalo Springfield, "Mr. Soul" (1967)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Was thinking about the aptly titled Buffalo Springfield Again, and this brilliant grungy mess, after hearing news that the band would reform for a tour later in the year. Recorded in 1967 for the second of what would be a brief three-album tenure for Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young's “Mr. Soul" builds off the career-defining riff from “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." But it's no Rolling Stones rip off. No, this is too wild for that. At times, ...
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Unsigned Treasures: Melissa Engleman - At the Hotel Cafe (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Austin-based singer-songwriter Melissa Engleman explores life with a tough vulnerability on the urban folk set At the Hotel Café, often displaying a fortitude so quiet as to deceive. She gets knocked to the ground, while brilliantly fusing alt-country, singer-songwriter folk and whispers of blues, but notice that she never hints at staying down. That tenacity is best heard on tracks like the album opener “You Don't Even Know Me." With a voice as insistent as her strumming, ...
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Bob Dylan: In Concert: Brandeis University 1963
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JamBase
AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL, CD, AND VINYL FORMATS TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have announced the first stand-alone release of Bob Dylan In Concert—Brandeis University 1963, available on digital, CD and vinyl formats everywhere on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Pre-sale information for Bob Dylan In Concert—Brandeis University 1963 may be found via BobDylan.com and Facebook. A previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Bob Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts on May ...
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Hristo Vitchev Quintet brand new album "The Perperikon Suite" - Officially Released
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Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
The Perperikon Suite is the brand new album by the Hristo Vitchev Quintet. The music, which is inspired by the spirit and magic of the ancient and sacred Thracian city of Perperikon, combines modern jazz, fusion, world, and orchestral elements into a large scale jazz suite in 7 movements. The impressionistic work was specifically written to be premiered by the group at their 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival appearance on Sep. 18th 2010. The reception of the music was so amazing ...
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Good News or Bad? CDs Still 74% of All Album Sales...
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Digital Music News
We thought we'd dissected every stat possible from last year, but here's another one. In Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, Tommy Silverman kicked off New Music Seminar with this: 74% of all US-based albums sales came from CDs in 2010. “They aren't doing so bad," the RIAA board member told the crowd. “People still like them." Actually, the percentage gets even higher for certain genres. For example, Silverman noted that 84 percent of Country, 85% of Gospel, and a staggering ...
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