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Tracy Nelson's "Victim of the Blues" on Delta Groove Records Hearkens to Earliest Blues Influences
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conqueroo
When Nelson's home was destroyed by fire, firefighters announced they could save one room. Nelson pointed to the studio. This is the album that survived. CD, due out April 19, features Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, John Cowan and Jimmy Pugh LOS ANGELES, Calif.—She has one of the signature voices of her generation. That natural gift has always guided Tracy Nelson's soul; indeed allowed her to both write and seek out the deeper songs regardless of niche or genre. A fierce ...
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Sasha Masakowski - Wishes and Take Your City Eps
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Sasha Masakowski, at once fearless and charming, is featured on two new EPs, one as a leader with Musical Playground (the forthcoming next-gen jazz recording Wishes from Hypersoul Records) and another as part of the New Orleans indie rock/electronic band Bionica on Take Your City. Across these nine songs, we discover a vocalist of startling range—from the traditional to the trippy. Her fragile, but musically insistent vocal on “St. James Infirmary," the highlight of Wishes, goes a ...
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Toni Harper: Japan, 1963
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
My posts on singer Toni Harper began back in December, after I discovered an obscure album in Oscar Peterson's discography called Toni Harper Sings! (1956). At the end of January, to my great surprise and delight, Toni emailed me and answered many of the questions that I had raised about the Peterson session. [Pictured: An extended play LP released in Japan, courtesy of Makoto Gotoh] Next, readers wondered in the Comments section of these posts about Toni's trip to Japan ...
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Trumpeter/Composer Shane Endsley Announces The Release of His New Recording, Then The Other, + The Launch of Low Electrical Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Trumpeter/Composer Shane Endsley Announces The Release of His New Recording Shane Endsley and The Music Band—Then The Other To Be Released on February 26, Coinciding With The Launch of the New, Kneebody Owned- and-Operated Label, Low Electrical Records “an excellent new quartet that will have its first album out next month. The band played through irregular grooves beautifully... strong and controlled..." —The New York Times (on The Music Band's performance at The 2011 Winter Jazzfest) ..."a joyous tribute to music—jazz ...
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Thomas Dolby Breaks 20-Year Silence with "Oceanea" EP
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conqueroo
Featuring Eddi Reader on guest vocals, EP was recorded in Dolby's lifeboat studio. It is a precursor to a full-length album in summer. LONDON, U.K.—Reclusive solo artist Thomas Dolby is preparing to break his 20-year silence with a brand new studio album, A Map of the Floating City, due out this summer. But first, on March 28, Thomas is releasing Oceanea, a three-track EP filled with soaring melodies, intriguing storytelling and vividly cinematic textures. Featuring guest vocals by Eddi Reader, ...
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Howlin' Wolf - Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited (1972, Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Howlin' Wolf, posthumously inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame in 1980 and then the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, had no right to rock it like this. Not after what he had been through. By the time of his 1972 date at Chicago's Alice's Revisited, he had suffered numerous heart attacks. Two years before, he nearly been killed in an automobile accident, and Wolf's wife Lillie administered dialysis treatments every three days. ...
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Bann (Seamus Blake/Jay Anderson/Oz Noy/Adam Nussbaum) - As You Like (2011)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron BANN is a jazz supergroup of sorts, consisting of saxophonist Seamus Blake, bassist Jay Anderson, guitarist Oz Noy and drummer Adam Nussbaum. We know how supergroups can be hit-or-miss affairs; either egos clash and the different voices don't click together, or they come together naturally to create something that can be very special. BANN didn't just come together for a one-off project on some whim; the group has toured together at festivals and jazz clubs across ...
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MAXJAZZ to Release Terell Stafford's This Side of Strayhorn on Tuesday, April 5
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The independent St. Louis based record label MAXJAZZ has announced that they'll release trumpeter Terell Stafford's new recording This Side of Strayhorn (pictured) on Tuesday, April 5. The CD offers Stafford's interpretations of the music of Billy Strayhorn, the famed composer of jazz standards including “Take The A Train" and “Lush Life" who served for years as Duke Ellington's arranger, auxiliary pianist, and virtual alter ego. It features Stafford's working quintet, with saxophonist Tim Warfield, pianist and arranger Bruce Barth, ...
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