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Eva Cassidy - Simply Eva (2011)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron Eva Cassidy had only one record released in her lifetime, a live document at a local club in her native area of Washington, D.C. She only sang covers, most of them overly familiar, finding them within the realms of jazz, Tin Pan Alley, folk, pop, gospel and blues. Her insistence on not sticking with one style blocked opportunities to be signed by record labels. Her recordings were never highly produced affairs. And though there's about a ...
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Moby: Free EP and New Album
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JamBase
FREE EP AVAILABLE NOW FEATURING THREE SONGS FROM NEW ALBUM; DESTROYED OUT MAY 17; PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK TO BE RELEASED WITH ALBUM Moby and Mute are pleased to announce details of Destroyed, a new album and book of photography set for release on May 17, 2011. Destroyed the album will be available in CD, vinyl, and digital formats and will be included with the Destroyed book of photography. Published by Damiani/D.A.P, the book is 128 pages and features 55 photographs taken ...
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Bay Area Jazz Vocalist Lisa Lindsley Debuts on CD March 8
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Terri Hinte Publicity
On her new recording, Everytime We Say Goodbye, jazz vocalist Lisa Lindsley makes a commanding debut as a storyteller and balladeer of the first order. With impeccable support from George Mesterhazy, the pianist and arranger, and bassist Fred Randolph, Lindsley is fearless in exploring the inner workings of her songs and what she calls “the moments of stillness between the lines." “As a singer, you are always trying to find your voice," says Lindsley. “I believe I found it on ...
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Introducing Charlie Williams New Album "Dreams Come True" Released February 14, 2011
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Michael Ricci
Sixteen-year-old Charlie Williams released his sophomore album Dreams Come True February 14th, 2011 through Silver Blue Records. Charlie has already made a name for himself in the classical crossover world—his debut album spent 22 weeks on Billboard Classical Crossover chart. The album Dreams Come True is produced by the multi-platinum record producer Joel Diamond and multi-Grammy Winner Rudy Perez. An avid animal lover, Charlie recently performed at Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation Annual Stars To The Rescue XX in ...
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John Coltrane - Kind of Coltrane (Brilliant Jazz, 2007)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
I was scoping out the Princeton Record Exchange a few weeks ago, dismayed at the lack of music (much of the floor space is given over to DVDs now) and looking for anything to buy when I spied a number of these boxed sets for several different jazz artists including Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Stan Getz. They appear to me a mix of bootleg material, radio airshots and studio material that has fallen out of copyright in Europe. ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews It's true, as Randy Newman once impishly sang, they were six fine English boys who knew each other in Birmingham. After that, things got tricky for the Electric Light Orchestra. Despite an impressive string of 1970s hits, they became an easy target. People knocked the strings. The Beatlemania. Jeff Lynne's spaceman fro. We won't even get into ELO Part II. Newman, in this dead-on parody of their orchestral bombast called “The Story of a Rock and ...
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George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson - The Swingin's Mutual (1961)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso One of the smartest things Nancy Wilson ever did was start singing at the Blue Morocco in New York City, just after she blew in from Columbus, Ohio. In was there, while Wilson still had her day job, that John Levy caught this smoking-hot 20-something's act. Levy, once a bassist with George Shearing, went on to manage his former boss, as well as Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and—after that night—Ms. Wilson. The Swingin's Mutual would become the first ...
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Mark and Glenn Zaleski - Duet Suite (2011)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski One of the markers of high-level instrumental interplay is the perception of intimacy. We see this again & again in review language—that the musicians seemed as though they were “of one mind," that their communication was “telepathic." There are plenty of recorded examples that come to mind: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock's An Evening With..., Emphasis, Stuttgart by the Jimmy Giuffre 3 (withPaul Bley and Steve Swallow), and especially the impromptu live Max & Dizzy: Paris 1989, ...
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